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Mamadou Fall scored twice to help Los Angeles FC beat Sporting Kansas City 4-0 on Friday night. Los Angeles (7-9-6) ended a club-record, eight-game winless streak. LAFC had never gone more than five straight games without a win before this season. Kansas City (11-5-7) has lost twice in its last 13 matches – with six victories. Fall opened the scoring… Read More

Last updated: 12 hours ago One of the largest open air art galleries in the world returned on Friday as the German capital of Berlin hosted its annual Festival of Lights display for the 17th time. With over 70 locations and buildings involved in this year’s display a special emphasis was made on highlighting the environment under the motto “Creating… Read More

Ahead of Sunday’s presidential election in Sao Tome and Principe, two candidates are vying to succeed Evaristo Carvalho, president since 2016, who has decided not to run again. The president has largely ceremonial powers, he may arbitrate disputes but does not govern. The first round was held without major incident, July 18. The outcome of the vote has been disputed.… Read More

Last updated: 4 hours ago The whole town was flooded as a result of the remnants of Hurricane Ida, and it took 24 hours for the waters to recede. It caused significant damage to homes, businesses and vehicles. One after another, storm evacuees like Flor and Shah in Manville, a central New Jersey town along the rain-swollen Raritan River, told… Read More

Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has called for FIFA and UEFA to put an end to racism in football following the abuse England players suffered during their World Cup qualification win over Hungary on Thursday. Racist chants were directed at Raheem Sterling and Jude Bellingham during England’s 4-0 win in Budapest, where Hungary will have to play their next two games… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Around 1,000 homeless people, mainly migrants, who had been camped out since Wednesday in front of the Ile-de-France prefecture in Paris demanding accommodation, were evacuated at dawn and “sheltered” by local authorities. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

The world’s leading global conservation congress opened on Friday, with warnings that humanity must tackle the grave risks of biodiversity loss and climate change together. The key message from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is that disappearing species and the destruction of ecosystems are no less existential threats than global warming. “The battle for the climate… Read More

Africanews spoke with an iconic personality on the African continent. Between 1999 to 2007, Olusegun Obasanjo played an instrumental role in bringing back and entrenching democratic institutions to Nigeria and was Africa’s first military head of state to hand over power to a civilian government. He was recently announced African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa region. In… Read More

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday said the unrest in July in Kwa-Zulu Natal and parts of Gauteng had exposed social and economic inadequacies in the country. Speaking during a question and answer session in parliament on Friday, Ramaphosa said more work needed to be done to prepare law enforcement officials to respond to such situations. He also urged… Read More

Several movements of the Senegalese opposition launched Thursday in Dakar a coalition led by the main opponent Ousmane Sonko, five months before the staging of local elections. The coalition, called “Yewwi askan wi” (liberate the people in Wolof language), aims, according to its initiators, to conquer the municipal and departmental councils, controlled in their quasi-totality by the presidential coalition since… Read More