Austria and Algeria were the last two teams to qualify for the round of 32 in the ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. Both teams played out a 3-3 draw in their final Group J match at GEHA Field in Kansas City, Missouri, cancelling out each other’s goals to settle for a…
Burkina Faso has formally severed diplomatic relations with France, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions with its former colonial power. In a statement read out on national television on Friday, the military government announced that the split took effect from June 26, 2026. The administration of Captain Ibrahim Traoré, which seized power in September 2022, has increasingly adopted a…
In a historic ruling delivered on June 25, 2026, from Banjul and Abuja, the ECOWAS Court of Justice found Sierra Leone culpable for neglecting its duty to shield a minor from child marriage and its grave repercussions. The complaint, initiated in February 2024 by the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) and AdvocAid Limited, involved a…
At least 164 people have been killed and over 900 injured as two earthquakes hit Venezuela on Wednesday evening. Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy RodrÃguez, in a phone call with state-owned TV on Thursday, said the earthquakes have killed at least 164 people and injured 971. Mrs RodrÃguez said that a 7.5-magnitude earthquake first hit the country, followed by a…
Sierra Leone’s Parliamentary Committee on Sports has formally requested the Ministry of Sports (MOS) and the National Sports Authority (NSA) to account for the protracted delays affecting the National Stadium refurbishment, a project currently managed by Chinese construction partners. Convened at Tower Hill in Freetown, the sitting was designed to clarify the project’s current progress and to determine how…
France on Wednesday confirmed its first Ebola case in the country during the current outbreak, as a doctor returning from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo tested positive. The ministry in a statement said the patient has been placed in isolation and health authorities are tracing contacts adding that the risk to the wider European…
