Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

  Namibia Deploys Troops, Helicopters to Battle Massive Etosha Fire Namibia is set to deploy helicopters and hundreds of soldiers to battle a massive fire that has ravaged a third of Etosha National Park, one of southern Africa’s top tourist attractions. It is also home to critically endangered black rhinos. The blaze, believed to have…

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Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 26, 2025

  Former French President Sentenced to Five Years Over Libya Funds Case Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in a case related to millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Paris criminal court acquitted him…

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Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 25, 2025

  No Women on Uganda’s 2026 Presidential Ballot Uganda’s Electoral Commission confirmed eight candidates for the 2026 presidential election, narrowing the field from 220 people who had picked nomination forms. For the first time in more than 20 years, no woman made it onto the ballot, raising concerns about gender parity at the highest levels…

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Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 23, 2025

  Egypt Pardons Prominent Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi pardoned prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who had been imprisoned for six years. Abdel Fattah was expected to be released from prison after his sentence ended in September 2024, but he remained in custody in Egypt. He was arrested in 2019…

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Africa: All of Africa Today – September 29, 2025

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 16, 2025

  Zambian Court Jails Two Men for Attempting to Kill President with Witchcraft A Zambian court sentenced Leonard Phiri from Zambia and Jasten Mabulesse Candunde from Mozambique to two years in prison for attempting to use witchcraft to kill President Hakainde Hichilema. The men were convicted under the Witchcraft Act after being arrested in December…

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