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Fans of Brazil and Haiti’s national soccer teams celebrated together as they left Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Friday evening.

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Morocco fans celebrated in Massachusetts on Friday after their team’s 1-0 victory over Scotland in their second match of the 2026 World Cup.

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A six-month-old girl was buried in Bunia on Friday, another victim of the DRC’s Ebola outbreak. Her tiny coffin serving as a reminder of the severity of the epidemic, which continues to spread in Ituri province.

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Spreading violence and impunity for perpetrators is undermining religious freedom in Nigeria, a United Nations Special Rapporteur told a press conference in Abuja on Friday.

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Who are the women: New York, USA, 19 June 2026 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Conflict related sexual violence has soared in recent years. It includes

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A string of west African countries have outlawed same-sex relations in recent months, further eroding LGBTQ rights on a continent where they were already under attack

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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed his Madagascar counterpart, Alice N'Diaye, in Moscow on Friday

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Powering africas industrial future: By Tessa Brewis, Sector Head: Projects & Energy, and Josh Da Costa, Associate, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr As the Africa

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Solo travelers now account: 2026 has seen the largest increase in interest in solo travel ever, with 1.6 million searches of “solo travel” in January

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The US says South Africa is not doing enough to protect the white-minority Afrikaner community.

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A Vietnamese national deported to South Sudan by the Trump administration under its controversial third-country deportation program was repatriated to Vietnam on Friday after spending more than a year in detention

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France is enduring a widespread heatwave, with temperatures nearing 40C in parts of the country and forcing tourists and residents to change their routines.

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Berlin Zoo uses “ice bombs” and water showers to help bears and elephants cool down as Europe faces an intense heatwave this weekend.

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[Ghanaian Times] Caleb Yirenkyi bundled in the winning goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time, to send thousands of Ghanaians in Canada into a frenzy.

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Your chance to rank 10 of the most colourful and iconic kits African teams have worn at the World Cup.

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Kenya's health authorities have intensified health screening for truck drivers whose movements span thousands of kilometres across multiple countries, as East Africa remains on heightened alert following the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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[Vanguard] Retired military officers and associates of the late Major General Rabe Abubakar have cautioned Nigerians against blaming the North for the country's worsening insecurity, insisting that terrorism, banditry and kidnapping have evolved into a nationwide threat affecting all regions.

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[New Times] Genocide survivors' organisations from Rwanda and across the diaspora have called on Australia's Griffith University to sever any association with Judi Rever, a Canadian author and journalist known for promoting narratives that distort and deny the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

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[Nyasa Times] Motorists and businesses across Malawi are set to benefit from lower fuel costs after the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) announced significant reductions in the retail prices of petrol, diesel, and kerosene, effective midnight on 19 June 2026.

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Ghana and cte divoire: In the humid cocoa-growing regions straddling the Ghana-Côte d’Ivoire border, farmers have long played one country’s pricing

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[Nyasa Times] The High Court has ruled that the Chief Secretary acted outside his legal mandate by redeploying officers serving in the Malawi Police Service, declaring that such powers are exclusively vested in the Police Service Commission.