Is Nigeria v Benin on TV? Channel, kick-off time and how to watch World Cup 2026 qualifier

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Sun Peak Metals Provides Overview of New Projects in Saudi Arabia as Part of SDC Transaction

Sun Peak Metals Corp. (TSXV: PEAK | OTCQB: SUNPF) (“Sun Peak” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its new projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as it proceeds towards a definitive agreement to combine with Saudi Discovery...

Kirti Vardhan Singh calls for fair global practices, legitimate aspirations of Global South at NAM meet

Kampala [Uganda], October 16 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Thursday called for advancing the "legitimate aspirations" of the Global South and urged the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to collectively push...

AFRICA/SUDAN - Sign language in Sudanese Arabic: Comboni missionaries' initiative for the hard-of-hearing people

Monday, 13 October 2025 mccj Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) - Promoting inclusion, communication, and awareness in Sudan, particularly among teachers, families, and organisations that support communities of deaf or hard-of-hearing people. Father Jorge...

World News | Kirti Vardhan Singh Calls for Fair Global Practices, Legitimate Aspirations of Global South at NAM Meet

Kampala [Uganda], October 16 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh on Thursday called for advancing the "legitimate aspirations" of the Global South and urged the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to collectively push...

Egypt’s prime minister says Nile ‘a matter of existence, not subject to compromise’

ISTANBUL Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Thursday that the Nile River represents a “matter of existence” for Egypt and is “not open to adventure or compromise” amid renewed tensions with Ethiopia over its dam project. Speaking at the...

10 Conflicts to Watch in 2025

In these unsettled times, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House looks set to shake things up further. But how does a disrupter deal with an already disrupted world? In the Middle East, a chain reaction set off by Hamas’s...

KEMRI Announces Major Partnership With US Billionaire Bill Gates

The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced a Ksh516 million flagship project that aims to elevate women's health research on the continent. In a statement on Saturday, September 11, the institute said that the three-year Gates...

Keeping Africa’s vaccines cool

Keeping Africa’s vaccines cool From a distance, Lilongwe Technical College (LTC) is a modest affair located along the M1 opposite Biwi, the southern gateway to Lilongwe Old Town. The single-storey blocks, concealed in a brick fence, give little...

New African Union Executive Chairperson challenges member states

by Jehron Muhammad This year, during the African Union’s annual summit, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African leaders elected the long-serving foreign minister of Djibouti, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, as the new chairperson of the African Union...

Venezuela’s “Foreign Legion” in South Korea

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro speaks during a rally on April 13, 2024 (Source | StringerAL, courtesy of Shutterstock) North Korea has had ties with Venezuela since 1965, but in the last two decades since the coming to power of dictator Hugo...

Netsereab Azazi’s Book—Ona and Besekdira

I have written and spoken about Ona—a turning point in my life and among my peers. I thought that experience was as intense as life could get. Reliving those events shakes a person to the core; it is a deeply traumatic experience. What I saw...

Ethiopia’s grand renaissance dam a game changer in Nile Basin hydropolitics and water security

Ethiopia officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (Gerd) on the Blue Nile river in the week of September when the country hosted the second African Climate Summit. The occasion was one of great celebration, national pride and...

Calvin geography professor awarded fifth Fulbright to Africa

Last week Johnathan Bascom traveled 7,500 miles southeast and arrived back in East Africa. “Fewer and fewer geographers focus on sub-Saharan Africa,” said Bascom, a longtime geography professor at Calvin. “The region is ‘drifting off’ our...

Embassy of Spain marks National Day; highlights growing ties with Qatar

Minister of Transport H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla bin Mohammed Al Thani; Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) H E Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi and Spain's Ambassador to Qatar H E Álvaro Renedo Zalba cutting the cake...

Sub-Saharan Africa trade value up 9.7% but tariffs to hit growth

The value of Sub-Saharan Africa’s goods trade grew by 9.7% in the first half of the year versus the first half of 2024, the world’s fastest rate, but US tariffs are likely to weigh on growth and intra-Africa trade still lags other regions,...

Sub-Saharan Africa trade value up 9.7% but tariffs to hit growth

The value of Sub-Saharan Africa’s goods trade grew by 9.7% in the first half of the year versus the first half of 2024, the world’s fastest rate, but US tariffs are likely to weigh on growth and intra-Africa trade still lags other regions,...

Huge hubris: Who truly deserved Nobel Peace Prize in 2025?

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, announced last Friday, was awarded to Maria Corina Machado, leader of the opposition in Venezuela. There was significant public interest in the outcome before the announcement, largely because U.S. President Donald...

Light-Controlled Ferroelectrics Could Revolutionize Future Electronics

An international team of scientists led by Le Phuong Hoang and Giuseppe Mercurio from European XFEL has unveiled a new way to manipulate the properties of ferroelectric materials using light, achieving control on ultrafast timescales. The...

Africa could have some of the cheapest electricity in the world

Africa is more than twice as sunny as the Netherlands, has 90 times more people, and is nearly 800 times larger. But the continent’s total solar power capacity last year was less than that enjoyed by the Dutch. This year, finally, imports of solar...