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FIFA’s Zimbabwe ban shatters dreams of women soccer players

Reuters25 February 2026

HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Zimbabwean soccer player Marjory Nyaumwe is used to carrying her country’s hopes as part of the women’s national “Mighty Warriors” team. But she can barely afford to travel to training sessions since global governing body FIFA banned Zimbabwe from international matches last year, leaving top players facing a sharp drop...

Student wounds paint painful picture of Senegal’s debt crisis

Kingsley Oyong Akam24 February 2026

DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) – Violent clashes at Senegal’s top university have underscored growing pressure on the country’s young, populist-led government as it grapples with a deepening debt crisis. At least one student was killed, more than 100 people were arrested and the campus of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar remained closed weeks after unrest...

Fire at Cape Town International Airport disrupts flights

Reuters24 February 2026

CAPE TOWN, Feb 24 (Reuters) – A fire at Cape Town International Airport on Tuesday disrupted international and domestic flights, although the state-owned company that manages South Africa’s airports said the blaze had been extinguished. Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) said international departures were temporarily suspended as a precaution, while incoming international flights were diverted...

Drought deepens hunger in northern Kenya as aid dries up

Reuters23 February 2026

Thursday, 19 February 2026, 16:16 REUTERS Four years after a record drought devastated northern Kenya, failed rains are once again driving starvation, as aid cuts force humanitarian agencies to scale back their operations and feed fewer people. Sean Hogan reports. TURKANA COUNTY, Kenya – In the barren plains of Turkana, 76-year-old grandmother Echakan Amaja survives...

Attackers kill at least 50, abduct women and children in Nigeria’s Zamfara state

Reuters21 February 2026

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — At least 50 people were killed and several women and children abducted after armed men attacked a village in Nigeria’s northwestern Zamfara state, a state lawmaker told Reuters on Friday. Hamisu A. Faru, lawmaker representing Bukkuyum South, said the attackers raided Tungan Dutse village from around 5 p.m. on Thursday until about...

Food aid in Somalia could halt within weeks due to funding shortages, WFP warns

Kingsley Oyong Akam21 February 2026

GENEVA — The U.N. World Food Programme warned on Friday that its life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Somalia could grind to a halt by April unless new funding is secured, putting millions of people at risk of worsening hunger. An estimated 4.4 million people face crisis-level food insecurity, with nearly one million of them...

Sea turtles nest earlier as Atlantic waters warm, but egg output falls – study

Reuters21 February 2026

By ReutersCape Verde / London Loggerhead sea turtles nesting in Cape Verde are arriving earlier as Atlantic waters warm, but are breeding less often and producing fewer eggs, according to a 17-year scientific study published in the journal Animals. Researchers tracking the turtles found that rising ocean temperatures appear to be accelerating egg development inside...

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