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Fans planning to attend the 2026 World Cup in the US, Canada, and Mexico may face visa hurdles, but a new system aims to make travel easier.

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[Premium Times] Mr Shettima said the "Back to the Farm" initiative is designed to curb inflation, reduce foreign exchange spending on food imports, insulate Nigeria from global shocks, and restore productivity in the country's key food basket regions.

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[New Dawn] Monrovia -- Amid mixed public reactions to the government's performance, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is expected to use Monday's State of the Nation Address (SONA) to calm rising public anxiety and rebuild trust in his leadership.

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[Ghanaian Times] A nationwide poll conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) indicates that many Ghanaians are satisfied with the direction of the country.

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Rwanda will test technology powered by artificial intelligence in more than 50 health clinics as part of a new initiative by the Gates Foundation to support 1,000 clinics across Africa with the aim to improve health care services.

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[Nile Post] Heavy security has been deployed at the Butambala Chief Magistrate's Court ahead of the expected appearance of Butambala County legislator and National Unity Platform (NUP) Buganda deputy president, Muhammad Muwanga Kivumbi.

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[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The Government of Liberia has announced plans to return 35 earth-moving machines, commonly referred to as "yellow machines," that were imported under a controversial arrangement negotiated by Minister of State without Portfolio Mamaka Bility, as a newly negotiated procurement deal nears completion--rekindling public concern over wasteful spending and weak due diligence.

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[Liberian Observer] The government has unveiled an ambitious plan to inject nearly US$900 million into the country's ports and transport infrastructure, a move officials say could fundamentally reshape Liberia's economic landscape and reposition the country as a strategic maritime and logistics hub in West Africa.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has claimed that journalists from Northeastern Kenya withdrew from a planned interview with him after allegedly facing threats and intimidation.

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The miners have been terrorising residents of the Sporong informal settlement on South Africa's gold reef.

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TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States that has been in discussion for years on the platform now used by more than 200 million Americans.

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Orlando Magic's Desmond Bane says he would be keen on representing Nigeria ahead of the 2028 Olympics and suggests other NBA players could do the same.

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Three years on, Khartoum’s Bahri Teaching Hospital is welcoming patients once again, nearly three years after it was wrecked and looted in the early days of Sudan’s war.

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[Dabanga] Kampala -- By Abdelmoneim Madibu for Radio Dabanga

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Nearly a year after Rwanda-backed M23 fighters seized the eastern Congolese city of Goma, life for civilians has changed dramatically, marked by insecurity, displacement, and deepening political tensions.

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Nearly a year after Rwanda-backed M23 fighters seized the eastern Congolese city of Goma, life for civilians has changed dramatically, marked by insecurity, displacement, and deepening political tensions.

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[Health-e] Several government schools in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, have become breeding grounds for health hazards, due to delayed waste collection and illegal dumping. During a recent visit to Soshanguve Block R, Health-e News saw waste dumped at three separate schools.

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[The New Humanitarian] Kampala -- "I heard others telling their stories, and I felt they were similar to my own."

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[RFI] El Obeid -- Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country's devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say.

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[The Conversation Africa] In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa's Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and uncooperative taxpayers. It is a tiny window on the regular frustrations of a 19th-century taxman. But the poem survives only because the bureaucracy did.

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[UN News] A rising trend towards government-enforced internet shutdowns - with at least 300 incidents in more than 54 countries over the last two years - is prompting renewed warnings from the UN about the threat these digital blackouts pose to freedom of expression, access to information and human rights.