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Singer and actor Brandy was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Monday

Afreximbank has underwritten $2.5 billion in a $4 billion syndicated loan for the Dangote Refinery, reinforcing its financial position and highlighting strong investor confidence in Africa’s largest refining project. The post Afreximbank leads $2.5bn backing for Dangote Refinery in landmark $4bn deal appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.

Helen Zille, a well-known South African politician, wore a wetsuit, a mask and snorkel, and a pink-and-white swimming cap as she doggy-paddled through the pool of muddy brown water in an upscale Johannesburg suburb

In a show of force in Cape Town, around 500 military and police personnel paraded ahead of a year-long deployment targeting gangs, illegal mining, and organized crime across the Western Cape.

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed into law legislation doubling the maximum penalty for same-sex relations, making them punishable by up to 10 years in prison amid a crackdown on the country's gay community.

Gran Grif attacked Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite early Sunday, burning homes and leaving bodies strewn on the streets. The gang attacked again on Monday, said Bertide Horace, spokesperson for the Commission for Dialogue, Reconciliation and Awareness to Save the Artibonite, an activist group

On a dusty field in Kano, coach Hida Ghaddar is doing far more than running football drills. Through her Breakthrough Soccer Academy, she offers young people an alternative to the growing risks around them, combining sport with discipline, education, and job support.

A group of toddlers evacuated as premature infants just a month into the Israel-Hamas war returned Monday to families overjoyed yet worried about their futures in a transformed Gaza.

In a move that reinforces Africa's capacity to finance its own industrial transformation, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has underwritten US$2.5 billion of a US$4‑billion senior syndicated term loan for Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE (DPRP).

The presidential term of Niger’s ousted leader, Mohamed Bazoum, officially ends on Thursday, but he is unlikely to be released from detention or even put on trial, leaving the situation uncertain.