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Star striker Victor Osimhen scored twice in extra time to clinch a 4-1 victory for Nigeria over Gabon on Thursday in an African 2026 World Cup qualifying semi-final in Rabat.Osimhen squandered a great chance to win the match at the end of regular time, firing wide with only goalkeeper Loyce Mbaba to beat.But the 2023 …

Osimhen strikes twice as Nigeria keep World Cup hopes aliveThu, 13 Nov 2025 18:59:26 GMT Read More »

A man walked into a Viennese gallery one day in the summer of 2023 looking to sell a Gustav Klimt painting. The person who greeted him thought it was a joke, and gently sent him on his way.But when the owner of the W&K gallery was told what had happened, he ran down the street …

‘Black Klimt’ steps out of shadows and into political tug-of-warThu, 13 Nov 2025 16:53:53 GMT Read More »

The release of novelist Boualem Sansal has de-escalated a crisis in relations between France and its former colony Algeria, but much work remains to be done to normalise ties deeply scarred by history.Algerian-born Sansal, who received French citizenship in 2024, was released on Wednesday after over a year in prison on charges of seeking to …

After novelist’s release, long road to normalising Algeria-France tiesThu, 13 Nov 2025 15:46:02 GMT Read More »

Google will pay more than $40 million to support South African news media, many of them floundering in a digital age, the country’s competition authority said Thursday.Tech giants, including TikTok, X and Facebook, have come under fire for anti-trust practices that the watchdog says hurt local media by limiting their ability to distribute and profit …

Google to pay millions to South African news outlets: watchdogThu, 13 Nov 2025 11:19:45 GMT Read More »

At about 10 o’clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar’s turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms — a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work.Rising ocean temperatures, overfishing and pollution have steadily degraded marine ecosystems around the island, undermining a key source of income for …

Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat upThu, 13 Nov 2025 10:40:10 GMT Read More »

Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country’s vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West.But 30 years after his fall, an exhibition at the National Museum in the capital Kinshasa — opened at his family’s initiative — hopes to tell …

Mobutu expo lays bare DR Congo dictator’s troubled legacy 30 years onThu, 13 Nov 2025 10:28:54 GMT Read More »

At least $50 million for the freedom of an Emirati sheikh: that is the king’s ransom paid two weeks ago to jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda who are pushing to topple the Malian government and impose Islamic law.Alongside a crippling fuel blockade, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, known by its Arabic acronym …

Royal ransoms, a top money-maker for Mali’s jihadist kidnappersThu, 13 Nov 2025 06:40:54 GMT Read More »

A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world’s two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say.With strong central leadership, the groups were once able to train and then send commandos into Europe to carry …

Ten years after Paris attacks, jihadist threat has evolvedThu, 13 Nov 2025 02:18:50 GMT Read More »

A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28.45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim.The case involves the survivors of Shikha Garg of New Delhi, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, one of two …

US jury: Boeing owes $28 mn to family of Ethiopian Airlines crash victimWed, 12 Nov 2025 23:25:35 GMT Read More »

Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal arrived in Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned.A spokeswoman for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old given his “fragile health condition”, confirmed to AFP that Sansal had landed in Germany and …

Pardoned French-Algerian writer Sansal arrives in GermanyWed, 12 Nov 2025 20:44:41 GMT Read More »