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Trump announces U.S. Strike on Islamic state targets in Nigeria

In a Christmas evening post on his social media platform, Trump offered no operational details and did not specify the scale of damage inflicted or the number of militants targeted in the operation.

Somalis vote in the first one-person, one-vote election in decades

Residents of Somalia’s capital voted Thursday in a controversial local election that marks the country’s first one-person, one-vote poll since 1969

AFCON 2025: South Africa and Egypt to face off in Group B tie

This will be the fourth meeting of the two countries at AFCON finals, having previously clashed in 1996, 1998 and 2019. Of their previous AFCON meetings Egypt have two wins and South Africa one victory

Pope Leo calls for peace in countries torn by wars on Christmas Day

Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday called for “peace and consolation” for victims of “injustice, political stability, religious persecution and terrorism”, citing Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and Congo

Al-Shabab remains major threat to stability in Somalia and neighboring countries, UN experts warn

The al-Shabab extremist group continues to pose the greatest immediate threat to peace and stability in Somalia and the wider region, including neighboring Kenya, UN experts warned in a report released Wednesday.

Mali’s Cultural and Artistic Biennial gets underway in Timbuktu

For the first time since its creation, the Mali Cultural and Artistic Biennial, founded in the aftermath of independence, is being held in Timbuktu, in the north of the country.

WHO chief looks back on a successful yet challenging 2025

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement stood out as the year’s most significant achievement, calling it “a powerful example of what multilateralism can deliver when countries choose cooperation over division”

Making Africa’s Creative Sector Bankable {Business Africa}

We explore how Africa’s booming creative industry is transforming cultural influence into hard, bankable collateral while Dar es Salaam’s Megacity Challenge – Traffic gridlock is tightening its grip on Tanzania’s commercial capital as the city edges to...

Kenyans protest after roaming elephants kill 4 people in a week

Some Kenyans on Wednesday protested after roaming elephants killed four people over the past week in what experts describe as human–wildlife conflict driven by scarcity of vegetation.

Record rainfall in Moroccan city of Salé leaves residential buildings inundated

Record rainfall in Morocco overnight on Tuesday has left residential complexes in the city of Salé inundated.