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With much pomp and circumstance, Cairo is due to inaugurate on Saturday the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, widely presented as the crowning jewel on authorities’ efforts to overhaul the country’s vital tourism industry.With a panoramic view of the Giza pyramids plateau, the GEM houses thousands of artefacts spanning more than 5,000 years of Egyptian antiquity …

After delays, Egypt set for lavish opening of grand museumFri, 31 Oct 2025 02:57:05 GMT Read More »

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the airport in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will reopen to humanitarian flights, months after it was closed when the city was seized by the M23 armed group. The announcement was made at a conference in Paris aimed at supporting peace and prosperity in Africa’s crisis-hit Great …

DRC’s Goma airport to reopen, over $1.7 bn in aid pledged: MacronThu, 30 Oct 2025 20:29:28 GMT Read More »

Tanzania extended a lockdown on Thursday, with soldiers and police on the main roads in the country’s biggest city, a day after elections turned into violent chaos with unconfirmed reports of many dead.President Samia Suluhu Hassan, whose government is accused of a campaign of repression, had sought to solidify her position and silence criticism within …

Tanzania lockdown extended after election chaos, deaths fearedThu, 30 Oct 2025 20:17:12 GMT Read More »

The Trump administration announced plans on Thursday to drastically cut back the number of refugees to be accepted annually by the United States to a record low and give priority to white South Africans.Under the new policy, the United States would welcome 7,500 refugees in fiscal 2026, down from more than 100,000 a year under …

US to limit refugees to record low 7,500, mostly white South AfricansThu, 30 Oct 2025 19:55:43 GMT Read More »

UN officials warned Thursday that “large-scale atrocities” were underway in Sudan’s Kordofan region as paramilitary forces advanced, while residents in El-Fasher, a key city in the neighboring Darfur region, were being subjected to mass “horror.”El-Fasher, the last major city in Darfur to fall to Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries was “already the scene of catastrophic …

UN warns of ‘atrocities,’ ‘horror’ in Sudan as RSF advancesThu, 30 Oct 2025 18:24:56 GMT Read More »

Years of pent-up anger in Tanzania over state violence and the erosion of democracy are being unleashed in election unrest, an Amnesty International expert said Thursday. President Samia Suluhu Hassan sought to cement her position in elections on Wednesday, but the vote descended into chaos with protesters marching, tearing down her posters and attacking police and …

Tanzania releasing years of bottled-up anger: AmnestyThu, 30 Oct 2025 14:30:52 GMT Read More »

A South African court ruled Thursday that the 1967 death of ANC leader and Nobel prize winner Albert Luthuli was due to “assault” by apartheid policemen, overturning a finding that he was struck by a train.A formal inquest by the apartheid government claimed in 1967 that Luthuli — who in 1960 became the first African …

S.Africa court rules ANC leader Luthuli was killed in apartheid ‘assault’Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:30:51 GMT Read More »

Models strutted down the runway, their beaded and sequined dresses evoking the traditional facial scarring still done in some parts of Nigeria. Others donned outfits paying homage to adire, a traditional Yoruba indigo fabric long prized for its craftsmanship.Kanyinsola Onalaja’s show kicked off Lagos Fashion Week in style, in what has been a busy year for …

Nigerian designer embraces ‘clashes’ and ‘chaos’ at Lagos Fashion WeekThu, 30 Oct 2025 13:19:06 GMT Read More »

Families hid in trenches, bodies lay in the streets and children were killed in front of their parents as Sudanese paramilitaries advanced into the western city of El-Fasher, survivors told AFP.More than 36,000 civilians have fled the city since Sunday, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the army’s last stronghold in the Darfur …

‘Dead bodies in the streets’: Survivors describe fleeing Sudan’s El-FasherThu, 30 Oct 2025 11:21:56 GMT Read More »

Tanzania was under a communications blackout on Thursday a day after elections turned into violent chaos with unconfirmed reports of many dead.President Samia Suluhu Hassan had sought to solidify her position and silence criticism within her party in the virtually uncontested polls, with the main challengers either jailed or barred from standing.But election day descended …

Tanzania blackout after election chaos, deaths fearedThu, 30 Oct 2025 09:17:18 GMT Read More »