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[This Day] Abuja -- Nigeria remained structurally dependent on imported petrol between November 2024 and November 2025, despite a measurable contribution from the Dangote Refinery, according to a THISDAY analysis of official data released by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
[CFR] Museveni's efforts to ensure an electoral victory will almost certainly be successful, but will only exacerbate simmering resentment.
[Dabanga] At least 10 civilians were killed in North Kordofan's capital of El Obeid on Monday evening when a paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone struck a residential area, hitting a family home and killing nine members of the same family, including women and children, according to eyewitnesses. Several neighbours were also wounded. Radio Dabanga was unable to reach the RSF for comment.
[Scrolla] A yellow level 4 warning is in place for Limpopo, Mpumalanga, parts of KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and North West. Heavy rain, strong winds, flooding and some damage to buildings and roads are possible on Monday.
[Namibian] The Blood Transfusion Service of Namibia (NamBTS) has confirmed a critical blood shortage, with the current supply only enough to last a day.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a private meeting late on Sunday night in Mogadishu with former president Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a senior opposition figure, amid renewed calls for national political dialogue, officials said.
[Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika is keeping his promise to fight hunger in Malawi as the first batch of 103,000 metric tonnes of maize--part of the 200,000MT procured from Zambia--begins entering the country through the Mchinji-Mwami border.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has had over 200 days free of interrupted power supply, indicating that Eskom's power system remains stable.
[SAnews.gov.za] Government has noted with grave concern the United States' military strike against Venezuela at the weekend.
[ENA] Globally, cities face the reality of rising food prices. Such disruptions as supply chain breakdowns, climate-related shocks, inflation, and emerging trends of geopolitical tensions all contribute to push prices upward.
[Oxfam] Oxfam categorically rejects the recent US military intervention in Venezuelan territory, which constitutes a violation of international law and an unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country. This action threatens regional stability, contradicts the principle of Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peace, agreed upon by the States of the region, and constitutes a violation of the United Nations Charter and the laws and Constitution of the United States.
[Nile Post] With just nine days left to Uganda's presidential election, candidates are intensifying their campaign schedules in a last-minute push to reach districts they have not yet visited, while others plan return trips to areas they believe remain politically strategic.
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After more than 20 months in detention, Sherifa Riahi has been reunited with her family following her release from prison in Tunisia. The former director of the French NGO Terre d’Asile, along with two colleagues, was freed on Tuesday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed deep concern over recent US military action in Venezuela, calling for the immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
[Leadership] Yobe State Governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has condoled with the families of 29 persons who died in a boat mishap in Nguru local government area, describing the incident as a monumental loss to their families and the state.
[Leadership] The Nigerian government has been advised not to rely on foreign nations to win the ongoing war against terrorism and banditry in the country.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government expects Kenya's debt-to-GDP ratio to ease slightly to 60.6 percent by 2030, according to the draft 2026 Budget Policy Statement (BPS).
[Vanguard] OSOGBO -- THE Association of Concerned Local Government Workers, ACLGW, in Osun State, yesterday, urged workers returning to work to eschew violence and adhere to the ethics of their professions.
[Vanguard] The gross failure of emergency response in Nigeria's healthcabre system, stood exposed once more, this time to the global audience, last Monday, when heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua and his friends suffered a horrific crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Social media videos captured voluntary bystanders pulling Joshua from the wreckage and seating him in a police patrol vehicle. Not a single ambulance or paramedic appeared on scene.
The Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on Monday condemned, “in the strongest terms,” the unauthorized incursion of the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs into Hargeisa, describing the visit as a “serious violation” of Somalia’s territorial sovereignty.
[This Day] *Says no matter who they are, what their intent is, those who killed 42 in Niger must be hunted down with all those who aid, abet, enable them
