FIFA is set to confirm on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup while a joint bid by Morocco, Spain and Portugal which also features matches in South America will be awarded the 2030 tournament.The awarding of hosting rights for both tournaments will go to a vote during a FIFA Congress to …
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A feared Sudanese militia chief “willingly and enthusiastically” participated in war crimes, the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor charged Wednesday, laying out searing accusations of rape, murder, and torture.Prosecutor Karim Khan was summing up in the case of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nom de guerre Ali Kushayb, facing 31 charges of …
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“I don’t know when I’ll be able to go back to school,” 14-year-old Desta said, one of millions of children in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region deprived of school.Desta has not been in a classroom for nearly four months and now divides his time between farming duties and household chores at home — yet another silent …
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Chatter muffled as members of a secret society, masked and garbed in honey-coloured robes, entered the court of Foumban, the historic capital of a centuries-old kingdom nestled in hilly northwestern Cameroon.The 20th king of the Bamoun people, Mouhammad Nabil Mfourifoum Mbombo Njoya, stood up from his ornate throne — a replica of the original, now …
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Malaria mortality has fallen back to levels seen before the Covid-19 crisis, the WHO said Wednesday, but called for faster progress against the disease that killed nearly some 597,000 people last year.In a new report, the World Health Organization estimated that there were 263 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2023 — 11 million more …
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Popular Mozambique rapper Nikotina KF is rattled and stressed after facing police tear gas and rubber bullets just hours earlier but is determined to bring his voice to the youth-led protests running through his country.On the streets and in music videos that get thousands of views on YouTube, the 32-year-old musician is throwing himself into …
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The war crimes trial of a feared Sudanese militia chief accused of rape, murder, and torture across the Darfur region of Sudan during the country’s brutal civil war wraps up this week.The International Criminal Court will hear three days of closing arguments from Wednesday in the case of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by …
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French fighter aircraft left Chad for good on Tuesday after N’Djamena decided last month to end military cooperation with the former colonial power, the French military said.One of the sources said that two Mirage 2000D combat jets and a tanker aeroplane took off before 1230 GMT, a French source told AFP. A third took off …
A Ugandan military court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of abducted veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye to next year after his lead lawyer was blocked from working in the country.Besigye was snatched last month from neighbouring Kenya while in Nairobi to attend a book launch by Kenyan opposition politician and lawyer Martha Karua, according to …
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Kenyan police tear-gassed a peaceful march against femicide in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, detaining a number of protesters, according to AFP reporters and rights groups.There was a strong police presence in Nairobi ahead of the march — just one of many planned across the East African country, where violence against women has been a …
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