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[The Herald] Sungura musician Nicholas Zakaria affectionately known as Madzibaba has died.
[Liberian Investigator] Liberia is witnessing a disturbing resurgence in female genital mutilation, with new evidence showing that 502 girls and young women were recently initiated in a combined Sande ceremony spanning Lofa, Maryland, and Sinoe counties. The video footage, obtained by The Liberian Investigator, captures rituals conducted as recently as October 2025--an alarming indication that FGM remains deeply entrenched despite renewed efforts to outlaw the practice.
[Premium Times] President Tinubu directed the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, Minister of Police Affairs, Ibrahim Gaidam, and the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egebtokun, to follow up on the implementation of the order.
[Liberian Investigator] Temple of Justice, Monrovia -- The state's attempt to tie defendants to the Capitol Building arson case suffered a major blow on Wednesday when its first witness admitted under cross-examination that investigators conducted no forensic fingerprint analysis on key items allegedly used to start the fire.
[CPJ] Kinshasa -- The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to release Ali Male, a reporter with the privately owned En Quete News site and Kinshasa-based Kin24 TV, who was arrested on December 8 over a report about an army colonel.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Kenya Red Cross has raised the alarm over worsening drought conditions across the country, warning that nearly two million people are now facing acute food insecurity.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President William Ruto has assured Kenyans that the Kenya-United States Health Cooperation Framework will not be used to exploit the country or compromise the interests of its citizens.
[African Arguments] On October 29, 2025 Tanzania went to the polls. Or rather, a few Tanzanians went to the polls, in some cases seemingly under duress, but many stayed at home. When the implausible results were announced - a claimed 98% vote for incumbent President Samia Suluhu Hassan on an 87% turnout (compared to an 84% vote for the late President Magufuli on a 50.7% turnout in 2020, and a probable real turnout this year of around 35%) - many took to the streets in protest.
[IPS] Nairobi -- A new study and interactive dashboard released today in Nairobi at the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) finds that current international financial flows remain billions of dollars short of what is required to achieve the global biodiversity target of protecting and conserving at least 30 percent of the world's land and ocean by 2030 (30x30).
[Nile Post] Uganda has renewed its commitment to strengthening diplomatic and developmental cooperation with Syria, as government officials, diplomats and religious leaders gathered in Kampala for an event marking Syrian Liberation Day.
Africanews
Uganda and the United States have signed a $2.3 billion health cooperation agreement, which includes up to $1.7 billion of US support to the Ugandan health system over the next five years.
AfricaDotcom
LAGOS, Nigeria, 10 December 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-The EU–ECOWAS Scholarship Programme for Sustainable Energy, funded and launched in September 2022
NAIROBI, Kenya, 10 December 2025-/African Media Agency(AMA)/-There is a $130 billion annual investment gap hindering the world’s mission to achieve universal
Lieutenant Colonel Pascal Tigri is reportedly hiding in a neighbourhood of the Togolese capital, according to Reuters and Jeune Afrique.
The caftan has become a national symbol of identity, craftsmanship, and cultural pride in Morocco.
BBC News Africa
The coup was thwarted after Nigeria sent warplanes to dislodge the mutineers from the offices of state TV.
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Once the world's most expensive footballer, Paul Pogba is now on the lookout for the world's most expensive camel: the French midfielder just started investing in the camel racing team Al Haboob.
Ghana's foreign ministry said it would summon officials from the Israeli Embassy in Accra early on Wednesday after seven Ghanaian travellers were detained at Ben Gurion International Airport.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Winnie Odinga has called on leaders and older generations to stop reducing young people to "phone fixers" and instead give them real space to shape Kenya's future.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has lauded the 230 police officers who returned to Kenya after completing their 18-month tour of duty under the now-defunct Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti.
