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The African Nations Championships (CHAN) quarter-finals begin Friday after a bruising group stage, with security controversies and the unexpected successes of the host nations dominating discussion.The month-long championship, co-hosted by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, has brought a football revival to a region that has rarely hosted, or shone in, continental competitions.The three hosts all topped …

East African trio score unexpected hat-trick as CHAN hostsThu, 21 Aug 2025 15:17:06 GMT Read More »

Ghanaian dancehall star Shatta Wale has been taken into custody in Accra as part of a US investigation into his purchase of a Lamborghini, prompting hundreds of fans to protest for his release.Shatta Wale, born Charles Nii Armah Mensah, was interrogated Wednesday in connection with a 2019 Lamborghini Urus that US authorities suspect was purchased …

Ghana singer Shatta Wale held in US fraud probe over Lamborghini purchaseThu, 21 Aug 2025 14:50:16 GMT Read More »

Investigating judges in Paris ordered the dismissal of a case alleging the widow of Rwanda’s former president played a role in the country’s 1994 genocide, according to court documents seen by AFP Thursday.Agathe Habyarimana, 82, who has been living in France since 1998 and whose extradition has been repeatedly requested by Kigali, now appears highly …

French judges order genocide case against widow of Rwanda ex-president dismissedThu, 21 Aug 2025 12:26:02 GMT Read More »

Moroccan international Amine Adli was hailed as a “proven winner” after he signed for Premier League side Bournemouth from German outfit Bayer Leverkusen on Thursday.The 25-year-old, who was a key player in Leverkusen’s unbeaten campaign as they achieved the domestic double in the 2023/24 season, signed a five year contract for a reported fee of …

Bournemouth sign ‘proven winner’ Adli from LeverkusenThu, 21 Aug 2025 10:34:18 GMT Read More »

When software developer Rose Njeri created a pro-democracy tool to help Kenyans object to a contested finance bill, she was thrown in jail and targeted by an online smear campaign.Njeri is the latest victim of a sophisticated online apparatus that targets and harasses government critics in Kenya, where rights groups warn of an escalating crackdown …

Weaponising the feed: Inside Kenya’s online war against activistsThu, 21 Aug 2025 05:22:16 GMT Read More »

Africa has everything it takes to become a “renewable superpower”, UN head Antonio Guterres said Thursday, as he called for greater investment in green energy across the resource-rich continent.Guterres spoke at a three-day development conference in Japan attended by African leaders, where Tokyo is offering itself as an alternative to China as African nations reel …

Africa could become ‘renewable superpower’, says GuterresThu, 21 Aug 2025 05:12:13 GMT Read More »

Soaring numbers of tourists and expanding research projects are increasingly polluting Antarctica, scientists warned Wednesday, a fresh blow for one of Earth’s most pristine environments already threatened by human-driven climate change.In Antarctic areas where humans have been active, the concentration of fine particles containing heavy metals is 10 times higher than it was 40 years …

Surging tourism is polluting Antarctica, scientists warnThu, 21 Aug 2025 03:32:25 GMT Read More »

Tunisian mother Mouna Jebali had long used a flat iron to straighten her thick hair, but with women everywhere challenging the stigma around natural looks, she has finally learned to love her curls.To help her make what she called the “transition” to wearing her hair curly, she visited the North African country’s first beauty salon …

‘Curly is beautiful’: Tunisian women embrace natural hairThu, 21 Aug 2025 01:26:40 GMT Read More »

On the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, builders clear rubble from houses pockmarked with bullet holes, haul away fallen trees and repair broken power lines, in the city’s first reconstruction effort since war began over two years ago.Fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which broke out in April 2023, has …

Sudanese lay first bricks to rebuild war-torn KhartoumThu, 21 Aug 2025 01:09:52 GMT Read More »

Faced with climate change diminishing farmers’ yields, Nestle announced Wednesday that it was working on a technique to produce chocolate by using up to 30 percent more of the cocoa fruit.Chocolate is traditionally made using only cocoa beans taken from inside the pod, meaning that a large amount of the fruit — including the pulp, …

Nestle unveils method to boost cocoa yields as climate change hitsWed, 20 Aug 2025 12:41:58 GMT Read More »