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The pan-African communications agency strengthens its West African footprint with a new local operation in Accra, deepening its ability to provide market

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The Assistant Secretary-General for Africa told the Security Council that the situation has also deteriorated elsewhere across the country.

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An historic Category 5 storm when it first made landfall on Tuesday, it has left a trail of destruction across Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti.

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[CPJ] New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply alarmed by reports emerging from El-Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur state, which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has captured in recent days, where journalists, media workers and other civilians are facing an unprecedented wave of violence and impunity.

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[African Development Bank (AfDB)] The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a $6 million grant to support the African Risk Capacity (ARC) in boosting disaster preparedness and risk financing across Africa over the 2025-2026 period.

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Communities continue to suffer because they lack safe drinking water, sanitation and resilience to environmental shocks that spread the disease.

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The move, which will apply for the next fiscal year, marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000.

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Amid numerous conflicts and other challenges facing the world, discussions at this year’s forum take place under the theme "New Coalitions for Peace, People, and the Planet".

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[UN] The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Vassily A. Nebenzia (Russian Federation):

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It will be the first time Italy will host the sporting showpiece in 20 years.

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Tanzania’s post-electoral unrest isn’t confined to the country. It’s now spilling over in to neighbouring Kenya, with police lobbing tear gas over the border and cross-border traffic ground to a halt.

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[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Amnesty International has called for an immediate and transparent investigation by the United States into a deadly air strike on a migrant detention center in Sa'ada, north-western Yemen, which killed and injured dozens of Ethiopian migrants in April 2025, describing the attack as a likely war crime.

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[Monusco] Faced with the resurgence of recruitment and use of children by armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO and its partners held an interprovincial workshop on reflection and coordination on October 28-29, 2025 in Beni (North Kivu).

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[Scrolla] Alex taxi council chairperson Molefe Moekeletsi and one of his bodyguards were killed in Marlboro, just outside Alexandra, while another bodyguard survived the shooting. Police found a getaway car near the Jukskei River with bullet shells and blood stains.

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[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Daniel Chapo has announced that he is working with the World Bank to consolidate the resumption of financial support for the State Budget.

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[Agenzia Fides] Bamako -- "This morning at dawn, a convoy of 1,000 fuel tankers, escorted by the army, was greeted by a cheering crowd in Bamako," local sources told Fides, describing the situation in the Malian capital, where unrest is growing due to the blockade by the jihadist group Jama'a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM), which is attempting to prevent fuel tankers from Senegal and Ivory Coast from supplying the city.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched a global appeal to support an estimated 2.1 million Kenyans facing a worsening humanitarian crisis triggered by a "complex combination" of flooding, prolonged drought and disease outbreaks.

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[Vanguard] The newly appointed Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Idi Abbas, assumed office on Thursday with a pledge to intensify the fight against crude oil theft, illegal bunkering and other maritime crimes undermining Nigeria's economy.

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[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somali elite Danab commandos, working alongside the Jubbaland Security and Intelligence Agency (JSIA) and backed by international partners, have killed at least 18 al-Shabaab militants in a major military operation in the Jamaame district of southern Somalia's Lower Juba region, authorities said Thursday.

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This apparently significant change in US policy comes days after the US president denounced Russia for testing a nuclear-powered missile.

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Why professionalisation, not just talent, will decide who profits from the continent’s music boom.