#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 Botswana, De Beers reach diamond sales agreement after years of negotiations. Under terms of new agreement, Botswana’s government will be allowed to sell 30% of rough diamonds mined through joint mining venture with De Beers
#Africa × #USA #North America #Americas #Botswana
#bbc.com. #Feb.03.2025 Rebels declare ceasefire in DR Congo for 'humanitarian reasons'. The rebels say they will not seize any further territory but will protect their positions.
#Africa × #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 WHO urges US to reconsider withdrawal, warns of budget impact. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told attendees the health agency regrets the US decision and hopes Washington will reconsider
#Business #Health #director #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 Djibouti drone strike kills at least 8 near Ethiopian border. Country’s security forces say they targeted a rebel group, eliminating eight militants but also killing an undisclosed number of civilians in ‘collateral damage’
#Ethiopia #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas #Djibouti
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 'Trump talk' takes center stage at African mining conference. Participants concerned if tariffs, cutoff in aid could affect continent's mining industry
#Politics #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. #Feb.03.2025 Critic of Italy-Libya migration pact told he was target of Israeli spyware. Husam El Gomati, who reports on links between Italian government and Libya’s coastguard, fears for his sources
#Politics #Tech #Libya #Africa × #Italy #Europe #Asia #Israel
#economist.com. #Feb.03.2025 An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president. A transcript of his meeting with our editor-in-chief and colleagues
#Business #Politics #director #Africa × #Asia #Syria
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 Senior ISIL Somalia commander captured in Puntland. Police say Abdirahman Shirwac Aw-Saciid, head of the group’s assassination squad, surrendered to authorities.
#Somalia #Africa ×
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 Uganda's Supreme Court bans military trials for civilians; government rejects ruling. Human Rights Watch is one of the groups welcoming the high court’s decision, which halts many criminal trials involving civilians in military courts
#Uganda #Africa × #USA #North America #Americas
#economist.com. #Feb.03.2025 Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?. An interview with Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa
#Business #Politics #Africa × #Asia #Syria
#economist.com. #Feb.03.2025 Syria’s new president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, gives his first interview. Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?
#Business #Politics #Africa × #Asia #Syria
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 South African minister suggests withholding minerals after Trump aid cut. South Africa’s minister of mineral resources has suggested halting their supply of minerals to the US.
#Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 ‘Colonial erasure’: Iran slams Trump plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza. Iran joins other countries in Middle East in rejecting Trump’s proposal for displacing Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan.
#Africa × #Asia #Egypt #Iran #Jordan
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 As Sudan’s RSF surrounds Darfur’s el-Fasher, ethnic killings feared. The Rapid Support Forces are waging all-out war to conquer the state capital and cement control over all of Darfur.
#Sudan #Africa ×
#bbc.com. #Feb.03.2025 Francis Yaw Frimpong: Pooley stabbed to death at Nsoatreman vs Asante Kotoko match in Ghana. The next round of league matches have been suspended while the authorities investigate the death.
#Sport #Ghana #Africa × #football #American football
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 Tense calm, fears for the future in DRC’s Goma a week after M23 takeover. Tens of thousands of IDPs are leaving and routine is tentatively returning, as residents hope for peace despite crisis.
#Africa × #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#washingtonpost.com. #Feb.03.2025 Trump threatens to cut U.S. aid to South Africa over land law. Trump’s comments waded into a sensitive racial issue and deepened already sharp divisions between the United States and South Africa.
#Politics #Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 South Africa defends itself against Trump and Musk attacks on land policy. Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that 'South Africa is confiscating land' and "certain classes of people" were being treated 'very badly'
#Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America #Americas
#theguardian.com. #Feb.03.2025 Peter Fraenkel obituary. Other lives: Radio broadcaster who began his career in Africa before joining the BBC, rising to be controller of its East European Services
#United Kingdom #Africa × #Europe
#voanews.com. #Feb.03.2025 Hospitals in eastern Congo are crowded with wounded and exhausting their supplies. Since the start of the M23 rebels' offensive on Goma on Jan. 26, more than 700 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 have been wounded in the city and its vicinity, officials say
#Africa × #USA #North America #Americas #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#bbc.com. #Feb.03.2025 Tems wins at Grammy Award 2025, beating Yemi Alade and Burna Boy. Tems is the first Nigerian to win two Grammys after taking the Best Africa Music Performance prize.
#Showbiz #Nigeria #Africa × #Grammy Awards #music
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 South Africa rejects Trump’s accusations over expropriation act. The US president stated he will cut all funding to the country.
#Africa × #South Africa #USA #North America
#aljazeera.com. #Feb.03.2025 Photos: Displaced people face uncertain future after fleeing Goma. More than 100,000 people left Kanyaruchinya camp following M23 takeover of the city in Democratic Republic of the Congo.
#Africa × #Republic of the Congo #Democratic Republic of the Congo
#theguardian.com. #Feb.03.2025 ‘Oh my God, this is what we needed’: the Zambia style granny who went viral. What started as a fun clothes swap with her granddaughter, has given Margret Chola, in her mid 80s, a whole new lease of life – and inspired a host of fashion fans
#Fashion #Africa × #Zambia
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