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The war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in…

Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.

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The Settlement Grid: Life After the Dollar's Plumbing

mBridge, CIPS, UPI, PIX: the parallel settlement rails are already installed. A three-perspective investigation on optionality, not confrontation.

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Nearly 90,000 flee as El Fasher's shadow spreads across…

A UN aid chief warned Monday of a deepening crisis as violence spreads beyond the fallen city, with families trekking to the Chad border and Kordofan now…

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Houthis tighten their grip on the Red Sea's southern gate

The rebels have seized the strategic Hanish islands and Mayun island at the Bab el-Mandeb's mouth.

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Two mass shootings, one night: 27 dead in South Africa

Seventeen people gunned down at a tavern near Johannesburg on Saturday; ten more at a venue near Cape Town on Sunday. With no arrests and a third massacre days

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Brussels' winter warning: the gas… — Magna Bureau

EU storage sits at 70% — twelve points below last year — and the energy commissioner is telling governments to dim the lights and cool the radiators. With Hormuz blocked and prices near triple their p

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The canal calls the ships back: Suez eyes an — Magna Bureau

Global carriers are planning trial voyages through Suez in October, canal revenue is up 23% on the year, and Egyptian banks are weighing another $300M loan to the Canal Authority. The world's most imp

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33,800 litres: the Nigerian Navy's war — Magna Bureau

Under Operation Delta Sentinel, the Nigerian Navy recovered 33,800 litres of stolen petroleum products and shut two illegal refining sites in Rivers State. The theft economy is old; the pressure is ne

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Nigeria's cheaper money went straight — Magna Bureau

Eleven days after the CBN cut rates by 350 basis points to 23%, banks parked over 7 trillion naira at its overnight window. Private credit shrinks in real terms while the naira holds at 1,328.

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The IMF comes to Cairo as the canal's — Magna Bureau

Kristalina Georgieva told Youm7 the Suez crisis cost Egypt 70% of canal revenue — and that she will visit within ten days. With growth revised up to 5% and August canal income up 57%, Cairo is negotia

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Morocco names its first woman prime — Magna Bureau

His Majesty the King Mohammed VI appointed the 50-year-old Marrakech mayor to head the government on Tuesday, six days after her PAM party won the September 23…

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A year on, Morocco's Gen Z detainees still wait

Around 30 mothers gathered outside Morocco's Parliament in Rabat, a year after the Gen Z 212 protests began, demanding the release of some 750 detained youths.

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No clear frontrunner to succeed Guterres — the veto math…

Three months before Guterres's term ends, no candidate commands the field — Grynspan leads the straw polls but five 'discourage' votes, possibly P5, keep…

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Supreme Court lets Trump resume deporting — Magna Bureau

In its third emergency-docket win for the administration, the Supreme Court paused a Boston judge's ruling that the third-country deportation policy is…

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Morocco names first woman PM: Fatima… — Magna Bureau

For the first time in the country's history, a woman will form the government. The Marrakesh mayor inherits a coalition puzzle, a $20 billion World Cup deadline, and a youth that stayed home on electi

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Gaza's dead come home; Homesh raises a… — Magna Bureau

On Thursday, Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians recovered from the rubble of a 2023 air strike. Two weeks earlier, Israeli settlers danced with Torah scrolls at a new synagogue in the

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The Lab on Wheels Chasing Ebola's Fastest… — Magna Bureau

On the shore of Lake Albert, a mobile laboratory delivers its verdict in about an hour. But the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is still outrunning the science meant to stop it.

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On the run for 20 years, Kony is still… — Magna Bureau

In an interview with France 24, the ICC's lead investigator on the Kony case says the Ugandan warlord remains active within the Lord's Resistance Army, as fresh attacks in eastern Central African Repu

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