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Botswana and China have agreed to deepen cooperation in mining, agriculture and technology, alongside political commitments and training for UDC members.
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Botswana and China have agreed to deepen cooperation in mining, agriculture and technology, alongside political commitments and training for UDC members.
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Botswana and China have agreed to deepen cooperation in mining, agriculture and technology, alongside political commitments and training for UDC members.
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Twelve civilians and eight security personnel were reported killed when gunmen attacked traders travelling under military escort in Nigeria’s Zamfara state.
The Uniting Reformed Church has demanded action against corruption and violence, warning leaders to stop shielding wrongdoing and scapegoating migrants.
A Turkish man accused of kidnapping, raping and permanently injuring his fiancée has been arrested near Durban, ten days after another Turkish fugitive was caught in Cape Town.
After 33 years away, the world’s premier motorsport series will race in Africa again, on a new track near Kigali that has yet to be built.
South African Pieter Coetzé clocked 22.09 seconds to break the 50m backstroke short-course world record in Tashkent and lift his World Cup haul to six medals.
Verstappen took the Singapore Sprint, but Antonelli gained in the title race as Russell crashed and McLaren turned a nine-point position into one.
A 30-year-old who began working at 17 to help her single mother has won Tanzania and Africa their first Miss Grand International crown, in Bangkok.
Kenya is tracing contacts and airline passengers after a man who travelled from the DRC through Uganda died in Nairobi from Bundibugyo Ebola.
Fifteen years of family planning gains in nine West African countries face a funding squeeze, putting governments under pressure to protect access.
India’s ‘Cockroach’ leaders have been freed, but protests over disputed voter rolls continue as police maintain a heavy presence in New Delhi.
A captain was allegedly attacked inside a locked cockpit. Passengers rushed forward. Off-duty pilots took control. And a Saudi airport with no direct ties to Israel became their refuge. The extraordinary survival of flydubai FZ1073 now raises difficult questions about aviation’s defences against threats from within.
A $155 million US investment in Johannesburg-based WIOCC Group is set to bring American capital alongside AFC and Saudi Arabia’s Vision Invest, accelerating the expansion of fibre networks, subsea cables and data centres across a continent where only 35.7% of people were using the internet in 2025.
