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Folk Horror ‘Wolf Days,’ Family Drama ‘The First Week of August’ Win at Sarajevo Industry Awards
Emilija Gašić’s folk horror “Wolf Days” and Filip Mojzeš’s family drama “The First Week of August” took the top prizes at CineLink Industry Days, the Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry section for projects in development from Southeast Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The awards, which come with substantial cash prizes, help fund and promote…
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‘Free Nelson Mandela’ Maker Rogan Productions Opens South Africa Office & Tweaks Management Set Up
Rogan Productions, the London-based company behind Channel 4’s “Free Nelson Mandela,” has opened a new office in South Africa, marking its first permanent international expansion in its 13-year history. The Johannesburg-based unit, Rogan South Africa, will maintain close links with Cape Town, reflecting the founders’ longstanding personal ties to the country and building on a…
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Venezuelans, Cubans, Colombians arrive in African nation under Trump deportation deal
Liberia has received its first deportation flight from the United States, part of an agreement under which the West African nation will accept up to 1,200 third-country nationals deported from the US over the course of a year. The arrangement forms part of the Trump administration’s wider push to expand deportations to countries beyond migrants’…
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Why Nigeria’s one-time political giant may face extinction
Nigeria’s once-dominant Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is facing an existential crisis ahead of January’s general election, with a bitter leadership dispute now playing out in the courts threatening its very survival. The party, which governed Nigeria for 16 unbroken years after founding in 1998, has collapsed dramatically since losing power in 2015, a decline that…
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Dozens dead after boat capsizes in north-western Nigeria
At least 46 people have died in north-western Nigeria after a boat carrying more than 70 people, most of them children, capsized near Gorau in Sokoto state. A search operation is continuing for those still missing, in what is the latest of several deadly boat accidents to hit the country this year. Police said 46…
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Which country makes the best jollof rice? D.C. foodies put it to a blind test
One of the most famous dishes across West Africa is Jollof Rice — fragrant rice cooked down with spices, tomatoes and meat. But which version is best? A traveling festival aims to find out.
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Why are there so few African players in the WSL?
BBC Sport explores why there are so few African players in the Women’s Super League.
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Forbes 30 Under 30 CEO among Americans killed in Kenya crash
A Forbes 30 Under 30-listed chief executive, identified in reporting as Roger Duarte, has died along with several other Americans in a helicopter crash in Kenya. Duarte was reportedly holidaying in the country, away from his $2.8 million Miami home, when the aircraft went down, and coverage has focused heavily on his entrepreneurial profile rather…
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José Suárez, Telemundo executive, dies in Kenya helicopter crash
NBCUniversal has confirmed that José Suárez, president and general manager of Telemundo 31, Telemundo 49 and Telemundo Ft. Myers–Naples, died on Wednesday 19 August 2026, aged 55, following a helicopter crash in Kenya. Senior executives, including NBCU Newsgroup Chairman César Conde, NBCU Local Chairman Valari Staab and Telemundo Station Group President José Cancela, issued a…
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Missing British gold medal-winning sprinter is found in Moroccan prison after ‘sexually assaulting a minor’
A British sprinter who won a gold medal and had been reported missing has reportedly been located in a prison in Morocco, where he is being held over allegations of sexually assaulting a minor. The case is likely to raise concern given the athlete’s public profile and previous sporting achievements, though full details of the…