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An extraordinary 2025 Rugby Championship is heading for a thrilling climax with just two points separating surprise leaders Australia from last-placed Argentina with two rounds remaining. New Zealand face Australia in Auckland and defending champions South Africa meet Argentina in Durban on Saturday in the penultimate round. The All Blacks and Springboks trail the Wallabies by …

Thrilling climax looms in shock-riddled Rugby ChampionshipFri, 26 Sep 2025 07:10:34 GMT Read More »

Most Nigerian leather, often semi-finished, is exported to Europe and Asia and turned into luxury items bearing international brand labels, with zero trace of its origins.But with her homegrown brand, Isi Omiyi creates high-end pieces to try to reclaim Nigeria’s leather identity.In her apartment in the Lagos metropolis, she has created a boutique corner where …

Sought by luxury labels, Nigerian leather reclaims home marketFri, 26 Sep 2025 02:02:37 GMT Read More »

Madagascar police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Thursday as protests in the capital Antananarivo over repeated water and electricity outages spiralled into chaos with looting and arson.The Indian Ocean island is one of the poorest countries on the globe despite vast natural resources.Police patrolled the capital in large numbers from early morning after authorities banned …

Madagascar police fire tear gas at protest over power, water cutsThu, 25 Sep 2025 19:44:05 GMT Read More »

A court on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run.In a verdict that will make the rightwinger the first French postwar leader to serve jail time, the Paris criminal court convicted Sarkozy, 70, on criminal …

France’s Sarkozy prepares for five-year prison term after guilty verdictThu, 25 Sep 2025 19:37:50 GMT Read More »

Ghana’s president spoke out Thursday against normalizing “hatred” toward migrants, days after his US counterpart Donald Trump gave a scathing speech to the United Nations demanding closed borders.Addressing the UN General Assembly, Ghanaian leader John Mahama said it was time to “dispense with the euphemisms and dog whistles and speak frankly” about Western leaders’ push …

At UN, Ghana’s leader warns against normalizing anti-migrant ‘hatred’Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:26:12 GMT Read More »

Paris Saint-Germain star Achraf Hakimi, who is being investigated over an alleged rape, said he has “peace of mind” and expects to be cleared of the accusations.Last month, French prosecutors called for the 26-year-old Morocco international to face trial over the allegations that he raped a 24-year-old woman that he had met over social media.”I …

PSG star Hakimi says at ‘peace’ despite rape allegationThu, 25 Sep 2025 10:02:05 GMT Read More »

The war in Sudan has reached a critical phase that threatens to permanently fracture a country already devastated by displacement, famine and disease.What began more than two years ago as a power struggle between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has escalated into a brutal fight for territorial control, with the …

Sudan’s shifting battlefield: what we knowThu, 25 Sep 2025 08:31:40 GMT Read More »

The discovery of body parts and skeletons strewn around an isolated village in coastal Kenya has stoked fears that a doomsday starvation cult which claimed hundreds of lives has survived despite a major police operation.Two years ago, an investigation into what became known as the “Shakahola Forest Massacre” revealed one of the world’s worst death …

‘Morgue is full’: how Kenyan starvation cult kept killingThu, 25 Sep 2025 06:32:09 GMT Read More »

In the three years since Burkina Faso’s Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power, his junta has silenced critics by arresting dissidents or press-ganging them into fighting jihadists.Styling himself on former leader Thomas Sankara, a charismatic icon of African rebellion killed in a coup in 1987, the 37-year-old openly defends his anti-imperialist programme and makes no apology …

Burkinabes mute after 3 years under Captain Traore’s bootThu, 25 Sep 2025 05:54:23 GMT Read More »

In Morocco’s High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight.”The whistle language is our telephone,” joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the tradition in Imzerri, a hamlet in the …

Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survivalThu, 25 Sep 2025 04:35:58 GMT Read More »