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A protester pinned to the ground by at least two federal agents was sprayed directly in the face by another agent with a can of chemical irritant inches away from the man’s head. A photo taken by The Minnesota Star Tribune shows an opaque stream of orange chemical irritant blasting into the protester’s face before read more

Afcon has often provided a shop window for players to secure potentially life-changing, lucrative transfers. “We are the luckiest [generation] because the youngest, they’re going to wait every four years to play an Afcon,” Burkina Faso captain Bertrand Traore, who featured in his sixth Afcon in Morocco, told BBC Sport Africa. “Some players will be read more

Ugandan police have detained a lawmaker, and close ally of opposition leader Bobi Wine, for his alleged role in election-related violence last week. Muwanga Kivumbi, a deputy leader of Wine’s National Unity Platform (NUP), is accused of organising attacks on a police station and a vote-tallying centre after their electoral loss, which the party denies. read more

Military authorities in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau have scheduled presidential and legislative elections for 6 December, despite calls for a swifter transition to civilian rule. Transitional President Horta N’Tam signed a decree on Wednesday after meeting members of the National Transitional Council, military, and government officials, as well as representatives of the electoral commission. He told reporters read more

South Africa’s Police Minister Firoz Cachalia has said that the security forces are not yet able to defeat deadly criminal gangs, in a stark admission that underscores the scale of the country’s crime crisis. Gang violence, alongside robberies, accounts for many murders in South Africa, which has one of the world’s highest homicide rates. Cachalia read more

The Mets make another splash, acquiring All-Star starter Freddy Peralta and swingman Tobias Myers from the Brewers for prospects Jett Williams andBrandon Sproat. The teams announced the blockbuster trade on Wednesday night. New York designated right-handerCooper Criswell for assignment in a corresponding move. After losing out on Kyle Tucker, the Mets have signed Bo Bichette read more

Bushra MohamedBBC World Service Corbis/Getty Images Siad Barre died in exile in Nigeria four years after fleeing Somalia Exactly 31 years ago to the day, two Kenyan pilots, Hussein Mohamed Anshuur and Mohamed Adan, received an unexpected visitor at their office at Wilson Airport near the capital, Nairobi. It was a Nigerian diplomat, who drew read more

Sammy AwamiBBC Africa, Kampala BBC Mirembe Tracy says she struggled to pay the rent during the internet blackout Mobile money agent Mirembe Tracy laments that her business in Uganda’s bustling capital Kampala was paralysed when the government shut the internet during last week’s fiercely contested general election. “All withdrawals were disconnected,” she tells the BBC, read more

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Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent, Johannesburg SA National Defence Force The participation of warships from China, Iran and Russia in military exercises hosted by South Africa could further strain the country’s relationship with the US, which are already at an all-time low. A News24 report suggesting South Africa is hoping to persuade Iran to become an observer read more

Getty Images With his charisma, tenacity and everyman appeal, music star Bobi Wine has shaken up Ugandan politics. Since his career pivot a decade ago, the 43-year-old has become a major thorn in the side of President Yoweri Museveni, an 81-year-old who has been in power for 40 years. Bobi Wine has enchanted legions of read more

Osmond ChiaBusiness reporter Jason Garcia Nevi Bergeron and her Suzuki Cappuccino mini sports car America is known as the land of big cars and even bigger SUVs but Donald Trump has an idea that could change that. The president wants to bring to the US tiny vehicles, like those commonly seen on the streets of read more

David Grittenand Rachel Hagan EPA Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited the White House in November Seven countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt say they will join US president Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, according to a joint statement. They will join Israel, which also publicly confirmed its participation earlier. On Wednesday evening read more

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A police officer accused of dangerous driving after killing a driver during a high-speed pursuit of a suspect broke down in tears as he was cleared of wrongdoing. Matthew Pike, 40, was accused of causing the death of Keryl Johnson by dangerous driving, as well as causing death by careless driving, in 2021. However, after read more

Pallab GhoshScience Correspondent A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, researchers say. It shows a red outline of a hand whose fingers were reworked, researchers say, to create a claw-like motif which indicates an early leap in symbolic imagination. The painting has read more

BBC News The Aida Youth Centre’s pitch sits next to the barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Israel Israel has postponed the demolition of a Palestinian children’s football club in the city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. It said the Aida Youth Centre’s pitch was constructed without the necessary permits. It said read more

Meanwhile, 10 members of the 19-strong executive committee of Mali’s football federation (Femafoot) have resigned, plunging the administration of the game in the West African country into a leadership crisis. The resignations came after the Eagles reached the quarter-finals in North Africa, matching their performance in Ivory Coast two years ago. However, Femafoot has moved read more

James Waterhousein Córdoba, Spain BBC/Moose Campbell Yamilei’s brother-in-law Victor was among the victims of Sunday night’s crash Eduardo Morán, a doctor at Córdoba’s Reina Sofía Hospital, suspected it was serious. He and his wife, also a medic, had been asked to head to work after reports that two high speed trains had collided nearby. “We read more