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- Uganda: Turkish Tour Operators Thrilled By Uganda's Tourist Attractionson 29/09/2023 at 14:09
[Nile Post] A group of 20 guests from the Republic of Turkiye are currently on familiarisation trip to Uganda to visit the country's tourist attractions.
- Liberia: UL & Spanish Envoy Discuss Strong Collaborationby [email protected] (New Dawn) on 29/09/2023 at 13:23
[New Dawn] --As parties considered teaching Spanish at UL
- Tunisia: EU Commission Should Stop Ignoring Tunisia's Abuses Against Migrantsby [email protected] (HRW) on 28/09/2023 at 11:20
[HRW] Migration Control Funding Could Perpetuate Human Rights Violations
- Angola: Angola Diplomat Defends Strengthening Parliamentary Cooperation With Switzerlandon 28/09/2023 at 07:12
[ANGOP] Luanda -- The Ambassador of the Republic of Angola to the Swiss Confederation, Filomena Delgado, defended this Tuesday, in Bern, a greater intensification of inter-parliamentary cooperation with Switzerland.
- Somalia: New Swedish Ambassador Presents His Credentials to Somali FMon 27/09/2023 at 15:04
[Shabelle] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Sweden's ambassador to Somalia Joachim Waern handed over his credentials to the minister of foreign affairs Abshir Omar Jama (Huruse) in Mogadishu.
- West Africa: French Ambassador Leaves Niameyon 27/09/2023 at 13:10
[allAfrica] Harare -- The French ambassador to Niger Sylvain Itte, left the country, barely a month after the military government had ordered his expulsion, Reuters reports.
- Kenya: Kenya to Take Further Steps to Formalize Kosovo's Recognitionon 27/09/2023 at 12:02
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Kenya has expressed its readiness to officially recognize the independence of Kosovo, a landlocked breakaway country located in the Balkans in southeastern Europe.
- Rwanda: Rwanda Business Alliance Launched in UKon 27/09/2023 at 06:48
[New Times] The Rwanda Business Alliance was last week launched in the UK with an aim to bring the Rwandan and UK business communities closer together, according to a statement from the Rwanda High Commission in this European country.
- Niger: French Withdrawal From Niger a Further Risk to Stability - Analystson 27/09/2023 at 04:33
[DW] Niger has hailed France's withdrawal as a 'step towards sovereignty.' But experts argue that celebrations are premature as the move has broad implications for the country, the Sahel, ECOWAS and beyond.
- Namibia: Uproar Over Geingob's Genocide Remarksby [email protected] (New Era) on 26/09/2023 at 13:14
[New Era] Traditional leaders and political actors have come out guns blazing, expressing dissatisfaction with President Hage Geingob over his recent utterances on the genocide issue.
- Southern Africa: UK Trophy-Hunting Bill Fails - Southern African Countries Relievedby [email protected] (VOA) on 26/09/2023 at 07:19
[VOA] Gaborone, Botswana -- Southern African countries that allow trophy hunting are relieved after a bill seeking to ban the import of legally obtained wildlife trophies from Africa into the United Kingdom was blocked in the House of Lords this week.
- Niger: Germany, U.S .Watch and Wait As France Pulls Troops Outon 26/09/2023 at 06:55
[DW] The German and US defense ministers have said they see no immediate need to leave Niger, following France's decision to withdraw troops. Niamey's junta has been more focused on the former colonial power's presence.
- Africa: Why the New Cold War Will Split Africaon 25/09/2023 at 13:03
[Reporter] It's no longer debatable," scholars Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in Foreign Affairs in October 2021, "that the US and China . . . are entering their own new cold war." The conventional wisdom is that this new geopolitical competition will not spread to the global South, as it did during the first Cold War, with governments choosing sides and, in the process, dividing the world. "We don't believe," Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in July 2022, "in
- Niger: Niger Junta Bans French Planes From Its Airspaceon 25/09/2023 at 13:00
[RFI] Niger, which reopened airspace at the start of September, says it welcomes all commercial flights except for French planes or flights chartered by French companies.
- South Africa: Boks Face Low Road After Ireland Win a Thriller in Paris to Underline Favourites Statuson 25/09/2023 at 10:52
[Daily Maverick] The Springboks don't quite have their destiny in their hands after Ireland edged the world champions 13-8 in an absolute Rugby World Cup thriller at the Stade de France.
- South Africa: Nienaber and Kolisi Confident Boks Can Win Rugby World Cup Despite Ireland Setback in Parison 25/09/2023 at 10:51
[Daily Maverick] Springbok coach Jacques Nienaber and captain Siya Kolisi remained confident that the Boks could still win Rugby World Cup (RWC) 2023 after Saturday's 13-8 Pool B loss to Ireland.
- Rwanda: Genocide - Former Kibuye Prefect Pierre Kayondo Arrested in Franceon 25/09/2023 at 07:04
[New Times] Pierre Kayondo, a former prefect of Kibuye, has been arrested and indicted in France for his alleged role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
- Ethiopia: Tigst Assefa Smashes Marathon World Recordon 25/09/2023 at 06:55
[Daily News] Berlin -- Ethiopian Tigst Assefa has broken the women's world marathon record in Berlin by more than two minutes.
- Kenya: GOAT Eliud Kipchoge Sustains Pressure to Win Historic Fifth Berlin Marathon Titleon 25/09/2023 at 06:44
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- World Record holder Eliud Kipchoge had to dig deep into his energy reserves in the last seven kilometres of the race, as he clinched a historic fifth Berlin Maraton title on Sunday, claiming the crown in 2:02:42.
- Sudan: Burhan and Ukraine's Zelensky Hold 'Unscheduled Meeting' During Irish Pitstopby [email protected] (Dabanga) on 25/09/2023 at 06:40
[Dabanga] Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, Chairman of Sudan's Sovereignty Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), held an "unscheduled meeting" with Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, during a refuelling stop a Shannon Airport on Ireland's west coast yesterday.
- West Africa: Macron - France to Pull Diplomat, Troops From Coup-Hit Nigeron 25/09/2023 at 06:18
[DW] The French president said military cooperation with the West African nation would end and France's soldiers stationed there would return home by the end of the year.
- Kenya: Sheila Chepkirui - Berlin Marathon Podium Finish an Inspiration to Go One Betteron 25/09/2023 at 05:38
[Capital FM] Berlin -- After breaking through into the podium for the first time, Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui is now planning to go one better in one of the World Marathon Majors.
- Kenya: What Eliud Kipchoge Said After Winning Historic Fifth Berlin Marathonon 25/09/2023 at 05:36
[Capital FM] Berlin -- Every race is a learnt lesson, World Record holder Eliud Kipchoge said after crossing the finish-line to win his historic fifth Berlin Marathon title in the German Capital on Sunday.
- Kenya: Ethiopia's Assefa Shatters Brigid Kosgei's Marathon World Recordon 25/09/2023 at 05:34
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Ethiopian Tigst Assefa shattered Brigid Kosgei's Women's World Record set four years ago, becoming the first woman to ever run under 2:12 as she clocked 2:11:53 to win the Berlin Marathon on Sunday.
- Kenya: Eliud Kipchoge Claims Historic Fifth Berlin Marathon Titleon 25/09/2023 at 05:31
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- World Record holder Eliud Kipchoge had to dig deep into his energy reserves in the last seven kilometres of the race, as he clinched a historic fifth Berlin Maraton title on Sunday, claiming the crown in 2:02:42.
- Tanzania: First Energy Efficiency Action Plan Implementation At Final Stageson 25/09/2023 at 05:10
[Daily News] THE government in collaboration with the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is finalising implementation of Tanzania's first Energy Efficiency Action Plan project.
- Tanzania: Tanzanians Demand Return of Ancestral Skullson 23/09/2023 at 09:17
[DW] Colonial-era skulls had been lying in a Berlin archive for more than 100 years. Once looted as war trophies, they have now been matched by DNA tests with living descendants in Tanzania -- who are demanding their return.
- West Africa: Uncertainty Casts Shadow On Engagement With Military in Sahelby [email protected] (VOA) on 23/09/2023 at 08:50
[VOA] Washington -- The European Union and its Western partners are grappling with how to maintain diplomatic relations in the Sahel region following recent putsches in Africa.
- West Africa: Burkina Faso's Parliament Approves Sending Troops to Nigeron 21/09/2023 at 14:52
[allAfrica] Harare -- The Burkinabe parliament gave the go-ahead for Captain Ibrahim Traore to send troops to neighboring Niger in response to a potential foreign military intervention to reinstate ousted leader Mohamed Bazoum, The North Africa Post reports.
- South Africa: South Africa to Host US-Africa Trade Summit Despite Diplomatic Tensionson 21/09/2023 at 12:28
[allAfrica] Harare -- South Africa will host a U.S.-Africa trade meeting in November despite earlier calls from U.S. politicians for the event to be shifted due to what they claimed was the country's developing military connection with Russia, Reuters reports.