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IAF appoints Rwanda Space Agency chief as Vice President
Twagirayezu, who became CEO of the Rwanda Space Agency in November 2024, previously served as the country’s Minister of Education in 2023. Gaspard Twagirayezu Photo credit: Rwanda Space Agency The Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Space Agency...
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Letters: Don’t spoil your vote this election, but do use our single transferable system wisely
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Irish Independent
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We now have three candidates on the ballot paper for the October 24 election. Firstly, as many people as possible should exercise their democratic right to vote – after all, it won’t come around again until 2032. Secondly, please don’t spoil your...
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UNDP: Africa’s young innovators are ready — but governments must act on AI
Maxwell Gomera, resident representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) South Africa Africa’s young innovators are not waiting for handouts, they are already creating solutions to the continent’s most pressing challenges....
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Digital FDI roadmap offers guidance on cross-border data flows
The Ministry of ICT and Innovation, in partnership with the Digital Cooperation Organisation, has launched the Digital FDI Rwanda report at the 9th Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh. The report, developed jointly by MINICT, DCO, and the World...
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Congo's Goma airport to reopen, over $1.7bn in aid pledged: Macron
France's President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Democratic Republic of the Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi before a meeting at The Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on October 30, 2025, on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum. (Photo by Ludovic...
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DRC's Goma airport to reopen, over $1.7 bn in aid pledged: Macron
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Modern Ghana
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the airport in Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will reopen to humanitarian flights, months after it was closed when the city was seized by the M23 armed group. The key airport would open...
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Britain has ‘lost control’ of its borders, defence secretary tells Sky News
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Frontier Media - Alaska
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Britain has "lost control" of its borders over the last five years, the defence secretary told Sky News after the highest number of migrants this year crossed the Channel. John Healey told Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips the previous...
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Irma Stern portrait sets African record at Strauss & Co
A rare 1946 portrait by South African artist Irma Stern has made headlines after selling for over R21.7 million at Strauss & Co’s latest International Sale, setting a new African record for a Stern portrait of a female sitter. According to Strauss...
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Nairobi to host Road to BAL, Women’s Basketball League Africa qualifiers
Audio By Vocalize Nairobi is gearing up to host two major continental basketball events in November — the Women’s Basketball League Africa Group D – Zone 5 Qualifiers and the Road to BAL Elite 16 tournament. According to the Kenya Basketball...
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March trial set for Stark man accused of 1994 Rwandan killings, rapes
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The Alliance Review - Ohio
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His trial is to begin in Boston on March 16. Federal prosecutors say he raped and killed innocent people in Butare, Rwanda. Defense attorneys say he was elsewhere, not in Butare. A Stark County man accused of rape and murder during the Rwandan...
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Idris Elba’s 10 Greatest Movies So Far
Few people in Hollywood work harder than Idris Elba. The A House of Dynamite star has been in a whopping 17 movies in the 2020s alone, and three more have been confirmed for 2026 and 2027. We bet he’ll have done at least 30 pictures by the time...
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Reps committee chairman says special seats bill will improve representation
Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Akin Rotimi, has dismissed concerns that the proposed Special Seats Bill would increase the cost of governance, asserting that the legislation aims to enhance...
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Mwalimu Nyerere International Volleyball Tourney in full swing
DAR ES SALAAM: THE Tanzania Volleyball Federation has confirmed that preparations are nearing completion for the 26th Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere International Volleyball Tournament, scheduled to be held in Dar es Salaam from October 10th to 14th,...
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Exclusive: Navi Pillay on Israel's Gaza genocide and global complicity
Few jurists have left as profound and enduring a mark on international justice as Judge Navi Pillay. From her beginnings as a young lawyer challenging the machinery of apartheid in South Africa to her historic role at the International Criminal...
Owner: Jamal Awn Jamal Bessasso
African leaders denounce election of female Archbishop of Canterbury
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The Times
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The appointment of the Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally as the Church of England’s first female Archbishop of Canterbury has deepened long-running divisions within the Anglican Communion, with conservative leaders in Africa and elsewhere denouncing...
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Trumps insane rant to US Military
I told you Trump was a fascist and his unhinged rant at the Military this week is just another optics of evidence proving how utterly unfit he is for Office… Fact check: Trump makes numerous false claims to generals and admirals, some about the...
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Trump’s Quantico speech: Militarising politics and politicising the military
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The Week
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The gathering at Quantico on September 30, 2025, should have reinforced discipline, doctrine and strategic clarity. Instead, it turned into a campaign-style spectacle. President Donald Trump stood before the country’s top brass and delivered a...
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Badenoch is ‘doing politics differently’ – she is not wrong
It was time for Laura Kuenssberg to make a scene. She slammed her dressing room door and went in search of her producer. “Just who is that woman in the green room?” she asked. “She says she’s a guest on the programme.” “That must be Kemi...
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Kemi Badenoch says she is ‘doing politics differently’ – you can’t argue with that
It was time for Laura Kuenssberg to make a scene. She slammed her dressing room door and went in search of her producer. “Just who is that woman in the green room?” she asked. “She says she’s a guest on the programme.” “That must be Kemi...
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