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Nigeria: ASUU Strike - Varsity Students Decry Consequences, Seek End

[Leadership] A few days after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on the ongoing strike, students of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU) have decried its effects, calling for an end to the action.

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Uganda: JKIA Shut Down After Raila Odinga Mourners Storm Restricted Areas

[Nile Post] Operations at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) were temporarily suspended on Thursday after thousands of mourners overwhelmed security and stormed into restricted areas to catch a glimpse of the casket of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga.

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Africa: Experts Rally Africa to Unite Against Illicit Financial Flows

[Ghanaian Times] EXPERTS have called for stronger collaboration among African states, regulatory bodies, and financial technology (fintech) companies to curb the growing menace of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) draining the continent's resources.

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South Africa: Indigenous Knowledge Systems Can Be Useful Tools in the G20's Climate Change Kit

[The Conversation Africa] Indigenous knowledge systems are bodies of knowledge that were developed and used by local communities for centuries. They shape how people understand their environment, solve problems, and live sustainably. Bennet Siyabonga Madonsela, environmental scientist and Indigenous knowledge systems researcher, explains how these systems can help the world

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Africa: Report Reveals DDoS As New Dimension of Cyberthreats to Digital Infrastructure in West Africa

[This Day] NETSCOUT Systems has released its latest global threat intelligence report, which exposed the dangerous trend in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on digital infrastructure across West African countries in the first half of 2025, Nigeria inclusive.

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South Africa: Let Them Eat Kreef!

[GroundUp] New season's crayfish catch allocation is up almost 60%

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Central Africa: US Energy Investor HYDRO-LINK and the Democratic Republic Of Congo Sign Agreement to Deliver Excess Hydropower from Angola to the DRC

[HYDRO-LINK] Washington, DC -- Today at the USA-DRC Economic and Investments Forum in Washington, D.C., His H.E. Mr. Aimé Sakombi Molendo, Minister of Hydraulic Resources and Electricity, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Paul Hinks, Chairman and CEO of New York-based energy investor HYDRO-LINK signed a Memorandum

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Senegal, South Africa and Ivory Coast qualify for 2026 World Cup

It was a massive night in African World Cup qualifying and three giants rose to the occasion.

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Cameroon minister dismisses opposition victory claim as electoral disruption

Cameroon Minister of Territorial Administration, Paul Atanga Nji, has rejected opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary's claim of victory and accused him of trying to disrupt the electoral process.

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DRC and M23 agree to create an international body to oversee ceasefire

The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group have agreed to create an international body to oversee a ceasefire that has yet to take hold. M23, which receives backing from Rwanda, controls much of North and South Kivu in the country’s mineral-rich east.

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Ramaphosa: Gaza ceasefire won’t halt South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

Speaking in parliament on Tuesday in Cape Town, Ramaphosa said South Africa remains committed to its 2023 legal action. “The peace deal… will have no bearing on the case that is before the International Court of Justice,” he said, adding that Israel must respond to South Africa’s pleadings by

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Remains of four more hostages handed over by Hamas arrive in Israel

The Israeli military said that one of the four bodies released on Monday was not that of an Israeli held in Gaza.