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The stormy clouds of war are gathering ominously over the dreary landscape of the Sahel after troops of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) yesterday stated its readiness to participate in a standby force that is preparing to intervene in the Republic of Niger.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino hit back on Friday at critics of the decision to expand the Women’s World Cup to 32 teams, saying, “I’m sorry, but FIFA was right.”
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Download logoIn reply to a letter from the faculty and students of the Confucius Institute at Durban University of Technology in South Africa, Chinese President Xi Jinping encouraged them to learn the Chinese language well and contribute to carrying forward the China-South Africa friendship and promoting friendly cooperation between the two countries. In his letter,…
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US President Joe Biden on Friday will announce new security cooperation with Japan and South Korea including joint exercises at a first-of-a-kind three-way summit with their leaders that has already rattled China. The summit at the Camp David presidential retreat would have been unimaginable until recently, with the two treaty-bound allies — together the base…
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The World Health Organization and US health authorities said Friday they are closely monitoring a new variant of Covid-19, although the potential impact of BA.2.86 is currently unknown. The WHO classified the new variant as one under surveillance “due to the large number (more than 30) of spike gene mutations it carries”, it wrote in…
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Towards boosting African cinema, stakeholders in the sector will meet at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel and Silverbird Cinema, in Accra, Ghana for the maiden edition of the African Cinema Summit (ACS). For decades, African cinema has been in the quest for its style, and also devising a means where the industry will overcome foreign influences.…