Africa: All You Need to Know About Afcon 2025

Africa: All You Need to Know About Afcon 2025

The continent’s best footballers are preparing to descend on Morocco for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) as the finals are held over Christmas and New Year for the first time. The tournament kicks off on Sunday, 21 December when the hosts take on Comoros at Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium at 19:00 GMT….

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‘Increasingly likely potential’ of Palestine Action hunger strikers dying | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Increasingly likely potential’ of Palestine Action hunger strikers dying | Israel-Palestine conflict News

London, United Kingdom – Lawyers and loved ones of hunger strikers linked to the protest group Palestine Action are warning the activists could die in prison as they accuse British prison officials of a lack of care and communication and the justice secretary of ignoring their demands for a meeting. Of 29 Palestine Action-affiliated remand…

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Political pushback against Malatsi BEE leniency for Starlink entry

Political pushback against Malatsi BEE leniency for Starlink entry

Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi. The Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), and the African National Congress (ANC) are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the policy direction issued by minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, on the role of equity equivalent investment programmes…

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Africa: All You Need to Know About Afcon 2025

Africa: JSE Adds Three Etfs to Expand Global Investment Access

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange listed three new exchange-traded funds, giving South African investors broader access to global equities, multi-asset strategies, and international property markets, per African Markets report. The listings include two actively managed ETFs from Allan Gray in partnership with Orbis, and a global property feeder ETF from Satrix. All three products are rand-denominated…

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UN experts: Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security

UN experts: Kenya’s seed sharing ruling a milestone for peasants’ rights and food security

The Court stressed that centuries-old practices of seed-sharing form the backbone of Kenya’s food security and cultural heritage. PHOTO/FILE. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] UN experts have welcomed a landmark ruling of the High Court of Kenya declaring unconstitutional provisions of the Seed and Plant Varieties Act that criminalised the saving, use, exchange and sale of…

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Stoxx 600, FTSE, CAC, DAX,

Stoxx 600, FTSE, CAC, DAX,

Flags for the European Union members stand during a ceremony to lay a cornerstone for the new European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany. Hannelore Foerster | Bloomberg | Getty Images LONDON — European stocks were in positive territory at the start of a busy week for Europe’s central banks. The pan-European Stoxx 600…

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Rand hits its strongest level in three years

Rand hits its strongest level in three years

The rand gained further ground on Monday, supported by higher gold prices as local investors look towards the year’s last bit of economic data for clues on the health of South Africa’s economy. Shortly after 2pm, the currency was trading at R16.78/US$, continuing a firming trend that started in April. The rand is now at…

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Africa: All You Need to Know About Afcon 2025

Africa: Two Years On, UN Resolution Affecting Africa Remains At a Crossroads

Amid severe UN budget cuts and US disengagement, the resolution’s survival depends on creative diplomacy and stronger African ownership. The United States of America’s (US) retreat from multilateralism has put the financing of multinational peacekeeping to the test. This is most vivid in the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2719 – a…

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