South Africa maintain Group C lead with 1-1 draw with Nigeria in the CAF qualifiers for the FIFA 2026 World Cup.

Former TRRC Executive Secretary Dr. Baba Galleh Jallow just returned from the South Sudanese capital Juba where he spent the last two months sharing lessons and experiences from Gambia?s transitional justice process with the government and other stakeholders. Dr. Jallow was invited by the UNDP South Sudan office to advise the government and design a roadmap for the establishment and operationalization of a Commission for Truth, Reconciliation and Healing (CTRH) and a Compensation and Reparation Authority (CRA). In 2023, a South Sudanese delegation led by former Justice minister Madol Arol visited The Gambia to learn from the TRRC?s experiences. The delegation met with Dr. Jallow and former...

Download logo Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Admiral Brad Cooper at Al-Ittihadiya Palace. The meeting was attended by Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Minister of Defense and Military Production General Abdel Mageed Saqr. From the US side, US Ambassador to Egypt Herro Mustafa, Senior Defense Official at the U.S. Embassy and Defense Attacheacute;...

Download logo Thirty Libyan journalists, media professors, students and fact checkers joined a UNSMIL-backed online training session Thursday to sharpen their skills in digital research and verification, as part of wider efforts to strengthen the countryrsquo;s media sector against the spread of false information. The Zoom-based workshop was organised by the UNSMIL as part of its Basirah professional development programme. Pamela Kesrouani from the Google News Initiative presented the...

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Cairo -- Egypt has completed its plans to deploy military forces to Somalia, officials said Monday, in a move that could reshape regional security dynamics in the Horn of Africa. ......

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received on Monday, September 8, 2025, Commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) Admiral Brad Cooper at Al-Ittihadiya Palace. ......

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly held a meeting on Monday, September 8, 2025, to follow up on the executive measures to provide fertilizers in the markets and the efforts made to govern their trading system. ......

The boats, carrying 350 pro-Palestinian activists and stocked with medical and food supplies, are en route to Gaza.

In Africa crypto news this week, Ripple crypto continues to expand its global presence with several partnerships to expand its stablecoin usage in Africa. Behind Ripple is the XRP crypto, among the most valuable coins, far exceeding ADA crypto or Dogecoin meme coin. Ripple is also the issuer of RLUSD, a stablecoin targeting institutions. On the Western coast, the Nigerian Senate is working with the country?s blockchain association to formulate more crypto regulations. As crypto adoption picks up steam, more countries in Africa are looking to regulate it. Kenya has made notable progress, and South Africa is ahead as far as crypto regulation is concerned. Meanwhile, a Chainalysis study has...

Egypt?s Ministry of Health, the Africa...

Egypt is pressing ahead with efforts to position its Iqat gold mine in the Eastern Desert as a significant player in the global gold market, according to the Ministry of Petroleum's statement on Saturday. ......

Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 63 people in an overnight attack on a resettled community in northeastern Nigeria, officials said Saturday. The assault took place Friday night in Darul Jamal, a village in the Bama area of Borno state, where residents had recently been moved from a camp for internally...

Egypt has long been an enigma to the world, a bewildering paradox for over a decade. It appears, outwardly, to be a...

Egypt accused Israel on Saturday of deliberately creating famine in Gaza, urging it to endorse a US-brokered...

Life amp; Style | 5 hours ago With witty stories and plain language, Oluwatodimu Ige, better known as Oga_theLawyer, is reshaping how Nigerians see the law, stripping it of jargon to educate the public and build a legacy rooted not in profit, but in people. Vanessa Obioha writes Scroll through Instagram long enough and you?ll likely stumble upon Oga_theLawyer?s page ? the lawyer and serial entrepreneur translating legal jargon into everyday language for his more than 34,000 followers. From consumer rights in Nigeria to landlord?tenant disputes, Oga_theLawyer, born Oluwatodimu Ige, has built a reputation for turning the law into stories that stick. ?Storytelling is everything,?...

Nigeria | 1 hour ago * Lauds VP for his visionary leadership, deep insights, and relentless dedication to implementing govt#8217;s policies Deji Elumoye in Abuja President Bola Tinubu has felicitated Vice-President Kashim Shettima and other distinguished Nigerians on their conferment as Fellows of the Nigerian Economic Society (NES), recognising...

Boko Haram militants have killed dozens in a nighttime attack on a village in northeastern...

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New businesses like OmniRetail and TradeDepot offer the potential to open up an estimated market of 8m informal traders for consumer-goods makers in Nigeria. ......

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar met Sunday with UN envoy Hanna Serwaa Tetteh in Benghazi to review a new roadmap designed to break the countryrsquo;s long-running political deadlock. A statement from Haftarrsquo;s...

By Yousef Ramazani Six years ago, on September 5, 2019, the Israeli regime, through its notorious spy agency Mossad, carried out the targeted assassination of Dr. Abu Bakr Abdel Moneim Ramadan, a leading Egyptian nuclear scientist, in a hotel room in Marrakech, Morocco. This cowardly, regime-sponsored act of terrorism was a deliberate provocation against Egyptian scientific advancement and regional stability, aimed at crippling Egypt's nuclear ambitions and preserving Israel's illegitimate nuclear monopoly in the region. The murder of Dr. Ramadan was not an isolated incident but a calculated chapter in a long and bloody history of Israeli assassinations targeting the brightest scientific...

The biblical site of Mount Sinai in Egypt is at the heart of an unholy row over plans to build a huge new tourism project.

Like other states in Nigeria's South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State with frequent attacks by armed persons. ......

Nairobi forecasts steadiness in the shilling, naira and cedi for the week ahead to Thursday, even as Uganda?s shilling may firm and Zambia?s kwacha shows signs of weakness, according to trader assessments cited on 5 September 2025. Kenya?s shilling is anticipated to remain stable against the dollar, with commercial bank quotes clustered around 129.00/40 per dollar?virtually unchanged from the prior...

Amnesty International stated on Thursday that the oil company Shell bears responsibility for cleaning up and remedying historic oil pollution in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, despite the company#8217;s divestment of its Nigerian subsidiary. The organization#8217;s statement follows a letter sent two months ago by seven UN Rapporteurs on Human Rights to Shell and other oil companies, as well as the governments of the companies#8217; home countries, regarding the businesses#8217; human rights obligations towards populations...

Nigeria | 44 minutes ago Emmanuel Ugwu-Nwogo in Umuahia Chieftains of the All Progressives Congress(APC) in Abia South senatorial district have commenced mobilisation of support for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu#8217;s second term bid. Leading the mobilisation campaign is Professor Anthony Agbazuere, who served as chief of staff to former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and had recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) to join forces with APC. He told journalists on the sideline of a meeting of APC local government chairmen and ward executives in the nine LGs that make up Abia South, Agbazuere declared that the South-east has no reason not to vote for Tinubu...

Nigeria | 48 seconds ago Onuminya Innocent in Sokoto The Sokoto State Government has disbursed N69,750,000 and 210 bags of rice to victims and families affected by recent bandit attacks in Kware and Gwadabawa local government areas. Governor Ahmed Aliyu, who led a condolence visit to the affected communities, described the...

The absence of Arab activists from the first phase of the Steadfastness Flotilla, which set sail last week from...

Libyan activists plan to set sail to join a Gaza-bound flotilla seeking to break an Israeli siege on the...