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Defending champions Ivory Coast have recalled 33-year-old former Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Zaha, who now plays for Major League Soccer club Charlotte, was included in a 26-man squad that will face Mozambique, Cameroon and Gabon in Group F. He was excluded from the Elephants squad last year …

Ivory Coast recall Zaha for AFCON title defenceTue, 09 Dec 2025 19:11:45 GMT Read More »

Fierce fighting rocked the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday as the Rwanda-backed M23 militia rapidly advanced towards the strategic city of Uvira, with tens of thousands of people fleeing over the nearby border into Burundi, sources said.The armed group and its Rwandan allies were just a few kilometres (miles) north of Uvira, security …

Thousands reported to have fled DR Congo fighting as M23 closes on key cityTue, 09 Dec 2025 17:57:51 GMT Read More »

TotalEnergies said Tuesday it had reached a deal to become a partner in the Mopane oil field off the coast of Namibia, where exploration remains underway.The deal with Galp will see TotalEnergies joining the Portuguese firm as an operator as more exploration wells are drilled in view to develop the field for production.”The transaction positions …

TotalEnergies in deal for Namibia offshore oil fieldTue, 09 Dec 2025 15:51:43 GMT Read More »

France helped the authorities in Benin thwart a coup attempt at the weekend, an aide to President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, revealing a French role in a regional effort that foiled the latest bid to stage a putsch in west Africa.Macron led a “coordination effort” by speaking with key regional leaders, the aide, asking not …

France helped Benin to thwart new west Africa coupTue, 09 Dec 2025 15:32:32 GMT Read More »

Mohamed Salah reported for Liverpool training on Tuesday as doubts grow about the star’s future at the Premier League champions with Saudi clubs intent on making a move for the striker in the winter transfer window.The 33-year-old Egypt forward was left out of Liverpool’s squad for their Champions League tie at Inter Milan on Tuesday …

Salah trains in Liverpool as Saudis plan winter transfer moveTue, 09 Dec 2025 15:23:47 GMT Read More »

Scottish conservationist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who pioneered new understandings of African elephants and made protecting the giant pachyderms a life-long passion, has died at the age of 83, his charity said Tuesday.Save the Elephants said in a statement that Douglas-Hamilton passed away in Nairobi late Monday, calling him a “pioneering force” in elephant conservation, who “revolutionised …

Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton dies at 83Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:40:26 GMT Read More »

When Benin’s government over the weekend fought back a coup attempt, they had unlikely help: troops and air strikes from neighbouring countries.West Africa has seen a series of coups over the past five years, leaving critics to cast the regional political bloc ECOWAS as having little more than stern communiques at its disposal to stop …

Why west African troops overturned Benin’s coup but watched others pass byTue, 09 Dec 2025 14:33:10 GMT Read More »

Francois Mitterand Murekezi walked three hours to join a hundred or so hoe-wielding farmhands gathered at sunrise in the hope of finding work on a plantation in conflict-ridden eastern DR Congo.In exchange for a hard day’s labour on a local farm in Mushaki, where land squabbles have been a source of strife since the Democratic …

DR Congo farmhands labour under conflict, inequalityTue, 09 Dec 2025 10:29:49 GMT Read More »

The International Criminal Court Tuesday handed down a sentence of 20 years to a Sudanese militia leader for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the country’s civil war two decades ago.The court had already convicted Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb, of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war …

ICC sentences Sudan militia chief to 20 yearsTue, 09 Dec 2025 10:11:29 GMT Read More »

Benin’s military was Monday searching for fugitive soldiers behind a foiled coup attempt on the weekend that left several dead as other west African countries mobilised to offer military support.At least a dozen plotters had been arrested and by Monday all hostages, including high-ranking officers, had been released, according to loyalist military sources.The country’s economic …

Benin hunts soldiers behind failed coupTue, 09 Dec 2025 03:35:52 GMT Read More »