Award-winning Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at a World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States after an 11-hour immigration interview at Miami International Airport.
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Virus-laden bats who live in places like the DRC, the world’s top producer of cobalt, which encompass 60% of the world’s second largest rainforest. Illustration: Guardian Design / Getty Images Virus-laden bats who live in places like the DRC, the world’s top producer of cobalt, which encompass 60% of the world’s second largest rainforest. Illustration:
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A record 10 African countries will take part in the 2026 Fifa World Cup after the finals were expanded to 48 teams, with a host of star names hoping to go all the way and lift the trophy. Morocco made history in Qatar four years ago by becoming the first African side to reach the
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The 34-year-old became embroiled in the Islamist insurgency, which erupted nearly 20 years ago, and while the city's urban landscape is healing, few resources are devoted to those still suffering with the psychological scars of the conflict. When he was 14 years old, a coalition of Sharia courts seized power in Somalia and provided some
Photo: Mpapierre / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus arrived in Kinshasa ahead of a planned visit to the eastern province of Ituri, the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak. We also speak to an investor who returned to DR Congo to grow chillis. Finally, the Caen Memorial in France is presenting an
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Photo: Mnazini / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) A court in Mali has sentenced a French intelligence agent with diplomatic status to 20 years in prison for “undermining state security”, judicial sources said Friday, in a ruling that further strains already fraught relations between the West African junta-led state and its former colonial ruler France.
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Photo: Haylad / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) DR Congo's final World Cup warm-up game against Chile will take place behind closed doors amid concerns about the Ebola outbreak in the African nation. The match is scheduled to take place in the French city of Orleans on Tuesday (16:00 BST). It had been due to
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Photo: Oxfam East Africa / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) The repatriation follows violence in South Africa's Western Cape Province where there were reports just over a week ago of door-to-door intimidation, as well as the deaths of two Mozambicans in Mossel Bay. The Malawians were "among a number of foreign nationals" who had "sought
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Photo: Nikiwatanze / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Ousmane Sonko, who was sacked as Senegal's prime minister after a falling out with President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, was re-elected Saturday as head of his Pan-African Pastef party. Sonko was also elected president of the country's National Assembly shortly after his dismissal as prime minister. The rift
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