Category: Africa
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🇨🇲 Cameroon Steel Plant Explosion Kills Four and Injures 16 as Safety Questions Mount in Douala
At least four people have been killed and 16 seriously injured after an explosion and fire at Metafrique Steel in Douala, Cameroon. The disaster has triggered an investigation and renewed questions about industrial safety following an earlier fire at the facility.
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🇮🇱 Viral Video Falsely Claims Benjamin Netanyahu Was Shot at Press Conference
A viral video circulating on social media falsely claims to show Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu being targeted in a shooting during a press conference. Fact-checking investigations found that the footage is actually from a 2013 attempted attack on Bulgarian politician Ahmed Dogan in Sofia. The video is authentic, but its connection to Netanyahu is…
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s Mining Future: Why Climate Action and Economic Growth Must Move Together
South Africa’s mining industry is confronting a critical challenge: reducing emissions and strengthening climate resilience while attracting the investment needed to grow the sector, protect jobs and support economic development. At the Minerals Council South Africa’s inaugural Climate Change Day of Learning, industry leaders argued that climate ambition and economic growth must reinforce one another.
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🇨🇭 Swiss Supreme Court Upholds 20-Year Sentence for Former Liberian Rebel Commander
Switzerland’s highest court has upheld Alieu Kosiah’s 20-year prison sentence for war crimes committed during Liberia’s civil war, while overturning his separate crimes-against-humanity conviction because the relevant Swiss law could not be applied retroactively.
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🇬🇭 A Ghanaian Politician wants inmates to have sex with spouses once a month
Ghana is debating a controversial prison-reform proposal after former NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi Boasiako, known as Chairman Wontumi, called for regulated conjugal and family visits for inmates. Here is what he actually proposed, what Ghanaian law currently permits, and the bigger debate over rehabilitation, family bonds and prison reform.
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🇸🇻 Bukele Takes the Fight to Haiti: Can El Salvador’s President Bring Home Four Missing Salvadorans?
El Salvador is preparing to deploy more than 2,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadoran aviation technicians disappeared following a gang ambush. President Nayib Bukele has vowed to escalate operations until the men are returned. But can El Salvador’s hardline security model succeed in Haiti?
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🇷🇺 Putin Courts Africa With Debt Message as Russia Expands Its Influence Across the Continent
At the 2026 Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, Vladimir Putin positioned Russia as an alternative partner to the West, accusing Western countries of using debt and economic pressure to constrain African development. But beneath the diplomatic language lies a more complicated question: is Africa gaining strategic leverage from its relationships with Russia and other global powers—or…
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🇺🇸 A2Gold Sells Nevada Gold Project as Miner Sharpens Focus on Core Assets
A2Gold has agreed to sell its Bolo Gold Project in Nevada to Super Gold Mining for C$1.5 million in shares, while retaining exposure to future exploration success through as much as C$2.8 million in contingent payments. The deal reflects a broader strategy of concentrating capital and technical resources on A2Gold’s core Eastside and Taylor projects.
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🇨🇺 “They Told Us Miami”: Cuban Women Describe Shackling, Confusion and Abandonment After Deportation to Central African Republic
Cuban women deported from the United States to the Central African Republic say they were misled about their destination, shackled during a lengthy flight and left in Bangui without passports, phones or adequate resources. Their accounts highlight growing concerns over America’s expanding third-country deportation policy and the role African nations are being asked to play…
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🇺🇬 Uganda’s $2.4 Million Dubai Gold Scam: Army Officer, Security Boss and Businessman Face Court Martial
Uganda gold scam, $2.4 million Dubai gold scam, Uganda General Court Martial, UPDF officer gold scam, Uganda gold exports, Uganda gold trade, Kampala gold fraud, Dubai gold investment scam, African gold trade, Uganda gold exports $5.8 billion