Lamine Yamal tops CIES’ 2026 Ballon d’Or rankings ahead of Mbappé and Kane, while Lionel Messi’s adjusted standing and winner Ousmane Dembélé’s 27th place stand out.
Ugandan MP Amos Mandela Mugerwa died after two months in hospital, as Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa remembered his principled stance on the public loans debate.
Jihadists have dynamited bridges and mounted deadly attacks against supply convoys, blockading Burkina Faso's northern town of Djibo and leaving its people destitute. Several supply convoys have recently been attacked on the road.
Shortly after nightfall, flashlight in hand, Rivas Bright knocks twice on the broken window of an abandoned building in Pretoria, South Africa. Tonight they have come to an abandoned building within the campus of one of South Africa's largest universities, which asked not to be named.
Heavy rains behind floods that killed over 600 people in Nigeria this year were about 80 times likelier because of human-induced climate change, scientists reported Wednesday. The heavy rainfall that sparked the floods was 80 times likelier because of "human-caused climate change," according to their findings.
Showered with applause and chants of "Lula!" "It's so good to see Lula bringing Brazil back into the fold," she said in a statement. lth/lg
The commander of the East African Community's military force in the Democratic Republic of Congo vowed Wednesday to protect Goma, a key eastern city threatened by advancing M23 rebels.
Nigerians are facing up to the reality of not qualifying for the World Cup, which kicks off Sunday in Qatar, as the African football giants have to watch from the sidelines the countdown to the quadrennial global showpiece. Will Nigerian fans now switch their support to "Old Enemy" Ghana, a neighbouring West African country, one of five teams from the continent who qualified.
Three candidate vaccines against the strain of Ebola wreaking havoc in Uganda will be shipped to the East African country next week for trials, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The WHO and the Ugandan health ministry accepted the committee's recommendation, he said, adding: "We expect the first doses of vaccine to be shipped to Uganda next week."
Conservationists in Niger said on Wednesday they had transferred threatened West African giraffes to a new home 600 kilometres (375 miles) away. Pain-staking efforts to save the West African giraffe seem to be bearing fruit.
As COP27 delegates in Egypt debate planet-heating emissions, the climate crisis is exacerbating devastating hunger across several African nations and will worsen further without urgent action, the UN said Wednesday.
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