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[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.

[New Dawn] --As parties considered teaching Spanish at UL

[HRW] Migration Control Funding Could Perpetuate Human Rights Violations

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Daily News] Berlin -- Ethiopian Tigst Assefa has broken the women's world marathon record in Berlin by more than two minutes.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.