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Dec
18
2025
By SPORTS CORRESPONDENT
Three days to glory: Africa’s beautiful chaos descends on Morocco

Three days to glory: Africa’s beautiful chaos descends on Morocco

NEWS
PICTURE this: It's December 2025, and while half the world is trimming Christmas trees and pretending to enjoy fruitcake, Africa is about to deliver its own gift to global football - a month-long masterclass in passion, drama, and the kind of plot twists that would make Netflix jealous. Welcome to the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025. Or as we like to call it: The Tournament Where Logic Goes on Holiday. The Scene Morocco - land of zellige patterns, mint tea, and football dreams - is rolling out the red carpet for the continent's finest 24 teams. And…
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Dec
18
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Trump’s new year travel ban: African nations bear the brunt

Trump’s new year travel ban: African nations bear the brunt

NEWS
AS the world prepares to ring in 2025, citizens from several African nations have received an unexpected and unwelcome New Year's present from Washington: a complete ban on entering the United States. US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Tuesday expanding travel restrictions that will prohibit citizens from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Sierra Leone from entering American territory. The ban takes effect on January 1, 2025. The action also imposes restrictions on those carrying Palestinian Authority travel documents, and extends bans to Laos and Syria, though the focus of the impact falls heavily on the African…
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Dec
18
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
A reckoning in Paris: justice for Congo’s war victims as eastern conflict rages on

A reckoning in Paris: justice for Congo’s war victims as eastern conflict rages on

NEWS
WHEN Pisco Paluku Sirikivuya walked into a Paris courtroom last month, he carried with him memories that had haunted him for two decades: the screams of his uncle being killed, the violation of his friend's wife, the bullet wound that still aches in his own body. A 50-year-old nurse from Mambasa in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), he had travelled thousands of miles to face the man accused of orchestrating the terror that shattered his community. On Monday, he finally heard the words he'd been waiting for since 2002. Roger Lumbala, once known as the "Butcher of Ituri" for…
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Dec
18
2025
By STAFF REPORTER
South Africa seeks answers after arrest of Kenyans at US refugee centre

South Africa seeks answers after arrest of Kenyans at US refugee centre

NEWS
TWO days after South African authorities arrested seven Kenyan nationals for allegedly working illegally at a facility processing refugee applications to the United States, diplomatic tensions are mounting as civil rights groups demand clarity and the government awaits responses from Washington and Nairobi. The Department of Home Affairs conducted the operation on Monday in Johannesburg after receiving intelligence that the Kenyans had entered on tourist visas but were working at a centre handling applications for refugees seeking entry to America. The seven were issued deportation orders and five-year entry bans. As of Wednesday, neither the United States nor Kenya had…
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Dec
17
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Rwanda’s tacit admission: M23 withdrawal offers fragile hope for peace in eastern DRC

Rwanda’s tacit admission: M23 withdrawal offers fragile hope for peace in eastern DRC

NEWS
IN the scarred villages and displacement camps scattered across eastern Congo, where mothers have buried children and farmers have abandoned fertile fields to flee advancing militias, news of the M23 rebels' promised withdrawal from Uvira has been met with cautious, exhausted hope. For years, Rwanda steadfastly denied what local communities, humanitarian workers, and UN investigators knew to be true: that Kigali was orchestrating one of Africa's most devastating proxy wars through the M23 rebellion. Now, the Rwanda-backed group's announcement that it will pull forces from the strategic border town of Uvira, described as a response to U.S. pressure, represents an…
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Dec
17
2025
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
Dreams in the Dust: Africa’s F1 heartbreak, Portuguese-style

Dreams in the Dust: Africa’s F1 heartbreak, Portuguese-style

NEWS
CUE the confetti cannons in Portimão: Portugal's Algarve circuit, that sun-soaked rollercoaster where Lewis Hamilton once moonwalked past Schumacher's win record in 2021, snags F1's prodigal return for 2027-28. Stefano Domenicali gushes about "igniting passion" while Portuguese politicos pop corks, dreaming of tourism tsunamis flooding SMEs with euro-lubricated largesse. Beaches! Senna ghosts! Ayrton’s 1985 Estoril masterclass! It's a Eurovision of engine roars, with Prime Minister Luís Montenegro high-fiving the gods of GDP. Meanwhile, Africa - that sleeping giant with pistons primed - gargles exhaust in the slow lane, dreams deferred till who-knows-when, like a backmarker lapped by Liberty Media's calendar…
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Dec
17
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Nigeria’s $19bn refinery: Dangote battles state apparatus and import cartels

Nigeria’s $19bn refinery: Dangote battles state apparatus and import cartels

NEWS
WHEN Aliko Dangote commissioned Africa's largest oil refinery in May 2023, it was hailed as a game-changer for Nigeria - a nation paradoxically blessed with vast crude reserves yet dependent on imported fuel. Two years later, that $19 billion investment has become the flashpoint for one of the continent's most consequential business battles, pitting the billionaire industrialist against powerful interests accused of sabotaging local production to protect lucrative import monopolies. On Tuesday, Nigeria's House of Representatives voted to intervene in what lawmakers warned has become a crisis threatening the nation's energy security. The decision marks a significant escalation in a…
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Dec
16
2025
By The African Mirror
When the waters came: Morocco’s 37 dead and a nation’s reckoning

When the waters came: Morocco’s 37 dead and a nation’s reckoning

NEWS
THE earth of Morocco is still wet with grief. In mosques across Safi, Rabat, and the valleys between, the faithful gathered Tuesday to wash bodies pulled from mud - women who would never again knead bread in their kitchens, children whose laughter drowned in Sunday's deluge, and elders who survived decades only to be claimed by water in minutes. Thirty-seven caskets. Thirty-seven families were shattered. The imams' voices cracked as they led prayers, their chants of "Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un" - we belong to God and to Him we return - rising through chambers thick with sorrow. Fatima…
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Dec
16
2025
By CONRAD ONYANGO, BIRD STORY AGENCY
West Africa’s push for cheaper flights

West Africa’s push for cheaper flights

NEWS
WEST Africa is bracing for a jump in air travel demand as its heads of state prepare to cut taxes and fees that make up nearly half of a flight ticket, starting January 2026. The heads of state and government in the region approved the measures at their December 2024 summit in Abuja, aiming to dismantle the cost barriers that have made West Africa one of the world’s most expensive regions for air travel. Under the new Supplementary Act on Aviation Charges, Taxes and Fees, all the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member countries will eliminate air transport…
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Dec
16
2025
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Uganda’s military grip: how security forces orchestrate electoral repression

Uganda’s military grip: how security forces orchestrate electoral repression

NEWS
AS Uganda lurches toward its January 15, 2026, general elections, a chilling pattern has emerged: the country's military and security apparatus has transformed into President Yoweri Museveni's most potent electoral weapon, systematically crushing dissent through arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and violence that has drawn unprecedented international alarm. The detention of Reverend Father. Deusdedit Ssekabira, a Catholic priest from Masaka Diocese who vanished on December 3 and resurfaced in military custody more than a week later, represents merely the latest manifestation of a security state apparatus that has perfected the art of pre-election intimidation over four decades of Museveni's rule. The…
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