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[UN News] For millions of people worldwide caught up in conflict, "war and hunger are often two faces of the same crisis," UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the Security Council on Monday, as it met to examine how food insecurity fuels fighting.

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[Afreximbank] Cairo, Egypt - 17 November 2025 -- The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen their cooperation in promoting trade and investment flows across Arab and African countries.

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[IPS] Belém, Brazil -- This is a COP of implementation. I do not want to see more texts that pile up on promises. But what we need is to detail what has already been promised. I want much more emphasis on adaptation because we have been too occupied with mitigation. --Carlos Lopes, Special Envoy for Africa, COP30 Presidency

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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name.

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Three additional fatalities are being investigated for a possible connection to the disease.

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The attack took place before dawn on Monday. Gunmen also killed the school's vice principal.

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Israel says South Africa had previously agreed to receive the 153 Palestinians who arrived last week.

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[allAfrica] In recent years, Africa has increasingly found herself at the crossroads of global health politics. On one side stand Western philanthropists and international organisations with deep pockets and strong convictions about how tobacco control should look.

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A coalition of 13 countries has announced new taxes on luxury air travel, applying to private jets as well as business and first-class tickets. Most of the members are from the Global South.

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The International Criminal Court is pushing for the maximum penalty, life in prison, for Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, a former commander of Sudan’s notorious Janjaweed militia.

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For the last two months, Mali’s capital, Bamako, has face a growing shortage of petroleum products. Now the country’s opposition is urging the population to “open their eyes” to a regime that “seizes the nation” without protecting it.

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- A viral video showing a Nairobi City County Government (NCCG) enforcement officer spray-painting a parked vehicle in the CBD has sparked widespread outrage, with Kenyans accusing the county administration of "vandalism" and "improper conduct."

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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has called on universities to adopt digital technologies in teaching, training and research, saying Artificial Intelligence is redefining the future of education.

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[Agenzia Fides] Abuja -- An unknown number of girls were kidnapped by armed men who attacked a girls' school in northwestern Nigeria overnight. The gang members attacked the Maga Government Girls' Comprehensive Secondary School in the Danko/Wasagu district of Kebbi State in the early morning hours of November 17. After killing the school's deputy principal, Malam Hassan Yakubu Makuku, who had tried to protect the students, and injuring a security guard, the attackers kidnapped an unknown number of girls.

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Excavators searching for the remains of three Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas returned empty handed on Sunday, after a full day of searching for the last remaining bodies.

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Pix of the Day: November 17, 2025

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BBC Sport examines where it went wrong for Nigeria, with the Super Eagles missing out on a second successive World Cup.

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The United Kingdom is threatening to restricts visas for nationals from three African countries that it has accused of not cooperating with the deportation of illegal immigrants.

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[Africa Check] IN SHORT: Social media posts claim that foreign street vendors were violently attacked by an anti-immigrant group in Johannesburg on 12 November 2025. But there is no evidence of this, and the photos used as evidence are a decade old.

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[Africa Check] IN SHORT: Several Facebook posts claim that Nigerian senator Enyinnaya Abaribe has responded to the suggestion of the US setting up a military base in the oil-rich Port Harcourt and said that "whoever wants the oil can come and get it". But we found no evidence that he made this statement.

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For now, it’s the status quo — nothing has changed. Neither Bassirou Diomaye Faye nor Ousmane Sonko has spoken about the crisis shaking their party, their coalition, the “Diomaye President” coalition that brought Bassirou Diomaye Faye to power.