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Check out the highlights from Monday, May 4, on Africanews Today.

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Emirates is reconnecting the: Emirates (www.Emirates.com) is marking a near-full return to operations, with 96% of its global network now

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Emirates is reconnecting the: Emirates (www.Emirates.com) is marking a near-full return to operations, with 96% of its global network now restored,

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Emirates is reconnecting the: Emirates (www.Emirates.com) is marking a near-full return to operations, with 96% of its global network now restored,

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Emirates is reconnecting the: Emirates (www.Emirates.com) is marking a near-full return to operations, with 96% of its global network now restored,

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African energy week aew: The African Energy Week (AEW) Conference and Exhibition - taking place October 12-16 in Cape Town - will host the first-ever AI

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Guinea launches agriconnect compact: Washington, USA, 04 May 2026 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Government of Guinea, in partnership with the World

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Mali's junta leader, Assimi Goita, will assume the additional role of defence minister, according to a decree announced on Monday, after the death of the previous minister in large-scale attacks

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Former Defence Minister Sadio Camara was killed in a massive offensive by combined jihadist and separatist forces.

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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy returned to the Paris Court of Appeal for the final hearings in the high‑profile case over alleged Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign, again rejecting accusations that he sought funds from Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

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African Stock Markets: By Eric Osiakwan  The much-anticipated Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE Initial Public Offering (IPO), which

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[CPJ] A key Senegalese rebel leader, César Atoute Badiate, has broken his silence on jailed journalist René Capain Bassène, refuting the prosecution's claim that Bassène was a militant fighting for independence of the Casamance region who incited him to murder 14 illegal loggers in 2018.

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[CPJ] Dakar -- A new podcast released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) presents extensive new testimony and reporting on the conviction of Senegalese journalist and author René Capain Bassène, raising serious questions about the integrity of a case that has become one of West Africa's most emblematic press freedom concerns.

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[SAnews.gov.za] Tourism Minister Patricia de Lille says Africa's Travel Indaba is a powerful celebration of the continent's extraordinary potential to drive economic growth through tourism.

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[Premium Times] PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported how a police officer, Nuhu Usman, and three others were filmed extrajudicially killing a handcuffed in Delta State, South-south Nigeria.

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Table Mountain National Park, extending south along a peninsula from Table Mountain, is a global biodiversity hotspot. A newly updated checklist, published in 2025, indicates 2,785 plant species within this approximately 250 square kilometre area

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The athletes and spectators have gone but the five artists selected to record the event are still working, putting the finishing touches on their paintings. They were chosen to participate in the Live Painting Experience at the 2026 World Athletics Relays in Gaborone.

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A state-backed Nigerian militia, operating alongside the military, killed scores of ethnic Fulani herders in a raid, local sources have told AFP.

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Iran said on Monday that ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz must coordinate with Iranian authorities, after the US announced an effort to open the strait

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Previous outbreaks of violence — including deadly riots in 2008 and renewed attacks in 2015 and 2019 — have strained relations between Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa.

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[263Chat] The case involving Zimbabwean opposition figure Job Sikhala and his uncle Alexander Ferrowst Thema has been postponed to 3 August 2026 by a South African court.