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BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year 2024: Voting open with winner announced on 26 November

[ad_1] Voting for the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2024 is open.Fans from across the world can vote for their favourite from the five-player shortlist of Barbra Banda, Aitana Bonmati, Naomi Girma, Caroline Graham Hansen, Sophia Smith.The award was first given out in 2015, making this its 10th year.Voting closes at 09:00 GMT on Monday, 28 October 2024 and the winner will be announced on Tuesday, 26 November on […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Africa: KQ Expands Flights to New York and Africa Routes

[ad_1] Kenya Airways has increased its international flight frequencies, introducing additional day and night flights to various destinations including New York, as the airline seeks to cater to rising demand during the peak holiday season. The national carrier has announced two more weekly night flights to the US, seven new flights to Zanzibar, and further expansion across several African and international routes. Starting from December 5, 2024, Kenya Airways will offer two additional flights per week from Nairobi to New […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Africa: How Mpox Anti-Vaxx Conspiracies Target and Stigmatise LGBTQ+ People

[ad_1] According to some conspiracy theorists posting on alternative, uncensored social media networks, Mpox is another "scamdemic", created by a powerful elite to cull populations and generate profit for "big pharma". According to these social media users, anyone who takes the Mpox vaccine inevitably faces heart attack and death. Other Mpox conspiracies target hate at LGBTQ+ people. Through my PhD research into anti-vaccination misinformation, I've collected thousands of social media posts, videos, images and links from anti-vaccination Telegram channels, Substack […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Africa: Brics – a Fairer Global Order – or a Bigger Russian Support Group?

[ad_1] This month's BRICS Summit should indicate the club's future direction, which could see the three original democracies distancing themselves. Is BRICS a broadly useful association to reduce much of the world's dependence on the West? Or is it becoming an instrument to help Russia - and to an extent China - counter their own growing tensions with the West? Russia, in particular, has an incentive to overcome its isolation because of its invasion of Ukraine. The answer to these […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Sophie hears of sexual exploitation of refugees in Sudan

[ad_1] PA MediaSophie heard harrowing first-hand experiences from women during her visit to ChadThe Duchess of Edinburgh has described distressing scenes of sexual exploitation, after meeting refugees from Sudan's civil war who had fled to neighbouring Chad."People are having to exchange food and water for sex, for rape. That is violence that is being enacted through conflict. It is being used as a bargaining tool," said Sophie, after a visit […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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African nations race to put satellites in space

[ad_1] SpaceXSenegal's first satellite hitched a lift on a SpaceX launcher in AugustOne by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a hodge-podge of solar panels and other gizmos – detached from their mothership.They had blasted off from Earth just an hour earlier, on 16 August. The 116 satellites onboard the launch vehicle were mostly designed and built by Western nations and businesses – but one of them […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Africa: CAF to Conduct Doping Officers Control Workshop for Wafu B Zone in Ouagadougou

[ad_1] The Confédération Africaine de Football ("CAF") will be hosting a CAF Doping Control Officers Regional Workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The three-day workshop designed will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso between 14 - 16 October and will be officially opened by the nation's Minister of Sport Mr Somda Roland, who will be joined by Burkinabe Football Federation President, Colonel Major Oumarou Sawadogo. The WAFU B Zone's hosting of the workshop will be the second workshop conducted b CAF […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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Afcon 2025: Burkina Faso and Cameroon qualify for finals in Morocco

[ad_1] Burkina Faso and Cameroon have both booked places at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with two rounds of qualifying to spare.Burkina Faso became the first side to reach the finals in Morocco following a 2-0 away win against Burundi on Sunday.The Stallions are guaranteed a top-two finish in Group L after taking 10 points from the first four rounds of matches.Mohamed Konate put the West Africans ahead early […]

todayOctober 15, 2024

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