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Ethiopia Successfully Halts Auctions of Looted Maqdala Artifacts Over Past Five Years: Ethiopian Anthropologist
🇪🇹 The Ethiopian Heritage Authority achieved this by leveraging media pressure and direct engagement to cancel the sales, Alula Pankhurst, a board member of the Ethiopian Heritage Trust told Sputnik Africa
👉The global stance demanding the repatriation of Ethiopian cultural artifacts to their country of origin is gaining increasing acceptance among art collectors worldwide, he added.
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Ethiopia Welcomes Return of Ancient Religious Manuscripts
Seventeen historic manuscripts have been repatriated to Ethiopia and distributed among key cultural institutions, marking a new chapter in heritage preservation.
📹 Watch the video to discover the significance of these returned treasures and Ethiopia’s efforts to recover lost heritage.
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'As Cuba Confronts Its Own Difficult Hour, Namibia Must Stand With Cuba,' Says Namibia's President
🇳🇦🤝🇨🇺 The bond between Namibia and Cuba has been tempered through collective sacrifice decades prior to Namibian sovereignty, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah stated.
✊ The blood Cuba spent in Southern Africa fed directly into the realisation of UN Security Council Resolution 435, the foundation of Namibian independence and a blow that helped topple apartheid in SA, she said.
❌ Cuba is facing severe economic challenges due to the restrictive US commercial, economic and financial blockade, Nandi-Ndaitwah reminded.
🗳 The country must be removed from unilateral lists restricting its access to international banking and development aid, she urged, saying that no nation should be denied prosperity for taking an independent path.
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Russian Girls Shed Tears as They Bid Farewell to Friends from the World Youth Festival
🫂 The global event in Russia’s Yekaterinburg may be over, but the friendships made there are not.
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Ghana Positions Cashew as Strategic Crop to Boost Processing, Create Rural Jobs: Media
The government is determined to create a thriving environment for the cashew ecosystem, Minister of Food and Agriculture Eric Opoku said in a speech read on his behalf at the opening of the 2026 African Cashew Alliance annual conference in Accra.
🇬🇭 Ghana is seeking to collaborate with neighboring African cashew producers to reverse the trend of processing only about 20% of the crop, despite producing 58% of the world's raw cashew.
The drive will focus on:
🟠Building a productive, competitive, and sustainable value-added cashew industry;
🟠Addressing productivity constraints and improving quality planting materials;
🟠Improving post-harvest handling;
🟠Ensuring climate resilience.
👉 The government pledged to create a conducive environment through policies, regulatory institutions, research, and private sector partnerships, the minister added.
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#viral | World Youth Festival Participants Line Up to Buy Traditional Russian Ushanka Hats
🇷🇺 The ushanka, a Russian fur cap with ear-covering flaps that can be tied up or worn down for protection against the cold, proved immensely popular among festival attendees.
Participants queued to purchase the iconic headwear, and the hats sold out almost instantly.
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WATCH: The World’s Biggest RPG Made by Russia
👆🏽Learn more in the report from our correspondent Seakga Tladi at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Expo in South Africa.
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Russia Champions African Representation in UN Security Council Reform: FM
The West remains over-represented in the UNSC, while emerging nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America face significant underrepresentation, Sergey Lavrov stated at the World Youth Festival in Russia’s Yekaterinburg.
Any decision granting permanent seats to candidates like India and Brazil must be accompanied by a simultaneous and definitive commitment to African representation, the foreign minister noted.
Russia will not support any nominations representing the Western group, ensuring that the proactive position acquired by the African continent translates into concrete justice for Africa, Asia, and Latin America, he emphasized.
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DRC’s Ebola Response Shows Strong Coordination & Local Support: UN
Thanks to the integrated approach by DRC government leaders, the WHO, UN agencies, NGOs and the Africa CDC, Ebola treatment center capacity expanded from around 900 beds to more than 1,300 over the past month, UN Senior Ebola Coordinator Julien Harneis said.
The DRC and UN agencies are also coordinating efforts to halt transmission along the Congo River, he added.
According to the coordinator, the effort goes beyond national borders, with international partners working together on:
▪️ post-exposure prophylaxis;
▪️ treatments;
▪️ new vaccines.
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Africa’s Largest Africa Aerospace & Defense 2026 Expo Opens in SA
The 13th edition of the exhibition opened at Waterkloof Air Force Base in Centurion, near Pretoria, and will run from Wednesday to Sunday.
🔹This year’s focus: unmanned systems, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence for defense, SA Defense Minister Angie Motshekga said.
🔹International participation: 33 countries and 287 companies from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America are attending, the minister added.
🔹On the sidelines: closed bilateral talks between military delegations and defense ministers are expected, covering major arms procurement contracts, alongside international symposiums and tactical weapons demonstrations.
🇷🇺 Russia’s participation: According to the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Russia is expected to exhibit approximately 500 products, including:
▪️ Drones and anti-drone systems;
▪️ Electronic warfare system;
▪️ Air-to-air missiles;
▪️ Guided aerial bombs and unguided rockets;
▪️ Small arms including AK assault rifles.
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🇺🇸🛰 US flaunts on-orbit weapon to supercharge space arms race
🔊 Reports of a US-deployed “on-orbit” weapon confirm that the West has already turned outer space into an extension of the Ukraine battlefield, air defense historian Yuri Knutov tells Sputnik.
🔸 US and French reconnaissance satellites are feeding battlefield intel to Ukraine’s military, with Finland about to join in
🔸 Poland plans to deploy its own reconnaissance satellites
🔸 countries are developing “inspector” spacecraft built to maneuver close to other satellites to spy on them
🔸 Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications and broadband systems are used in space - and guide Ukraine’s drones
It is fair to say that “an arms race in space is already underway,” said the pundit, and the US space weapons claim seeks to accelerate this orbital race further.
Trump’s costly Golden Dome project, touted as a global missile defense system, fits into the same aggressive vision, the military expert pointed out.
🔶 the ground-based tier is a system that has already been partially deployed, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, including artificial Earth satellites in space
🔶 it partly relies on the Aegis system, as well as advanced weapon systems employing new physical principles - electromagnetic guns (that fry spacecraft electronics) and combat lasers (potentially megawatt-class, but so far 300-kilowatt)
🔶 space-based tier to feature satellites armed with space-to-space missiles capable of intercepting ballistic missiles and destroying enemy satellites, alongside space-based lasers
💬 “The Americans appear to have already begun building out the space-based arsenal, judging by the US secretary of the Air Force’s remarks,” adds the expert.
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West Never Respected Sovereign Equality of Countries: Russian FM
"The West has always found a way to interfere in the affairs of other states," Sergey Lavrov said at a roundtable for the diplomatic corps in Moscow.
In Niamey, AES Regulators Seek Mechanisms to Confront Information War
🫂 The Nigerien capital hosted the Constitutive Conference of the Platform of Media and Communication Regulators of the AES Member States, which Sputnik Africa was able to attend.
Regulators must “provide adapted, rapid, and adequate responses to the concerns” related to “this all-out information war being waged against the AES,” Ibrahim Manzo, Technical Advisor at the National Observatory of Communication of Niger, told Sputnik Africa.
“Beyond the communication of information, journalists and social media users must take into account the impacts that this information has produced,” emphasized Tonssira Myriam Corine Sanou of the Higher Council of Communication of Burkina Faso.
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Russia Seeks Healthy Economic Cooperation, Not Military Confrontation: Ethiopian Expert
👉 Russia’s goal is to pursue healthy economic competition, but it was forced into confrontation due to NATO expansion, Lecturer and Researcher of International Relations and Diplomacy at Kotebe Univeristy of Education Endale Nigussie told Sputnik Africa.
"Russia has already spoken about this. Wasn’t there an agreement that NATO would not expand? Wasn’t it said that it would not expand into Eastern Europe? Beyond expansion, it is now becoming involved in other issues as well. [...] Russia is being forced to take action. Russia has sufficient reasons."
Ethiopia to Host Africa's Deaf Football Championship in Addis Ababa
📹 Watch Sputnik Africa's video: over 18 African nations will compete on the Ethiopian soil.
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Here’s how foreign guests at the World Youth Festival in Yekaterinburg answered.
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Burkina Faso Launches Electronic Signature, 'Faso Sign': What is It & What is It Used for?
📄 It's a "modern and secure" platform for public services that allows documents to be signed "in minutes" instead of waiting days, explained the Ministry of Finance.
What other problems does Faso Sign solve?
▪️ It doesn't matter where the signatory is located.
▪️ Printing costs are eliminated.
▪️ Transporting and physically archiving documents is no longer necessary.
Is an electronic signature legally less valid than a handwritten signature?
No, they have the same legal value, the Ministry stated.
Who is affected?
All ministries, institutions, and departments are required to implement this platform within strict deadlines, emphasized the head of government.
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Messi to Face Benin in His Farewell Match With Argentine National Team: Media
The match is set for October 6 at the Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti Stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Earlier, Lionel Messi announced the end of his international career.
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#viral | Warning: Vertigo May Occur — Watch This US Speed Flyer Skim Inches From the Ground
Roman Campos demonstrated speed flying, an extreme paragliding discipline focused on speed and close proximity to the ground.
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🇺🇸🚀 US space weapons claims risk igniting orbital arms race - expert
Statements such as US Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink’s claim that the United States has deployed an “on-orbit” weapon could have far-reaching consequences, Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, told Sputnik.
Announcing that the US has a space weapon in Earth's orbit could fuel a dangerous arms race in orbit, he noted.
👉 In his opinion, that could set off a cycle of action and counteraction, threatening the satellites and other orbital systems that countries worldwide rely on for communications, navigation and other essential services.
He argued that the world’s major nuclear powers are failing to address growing strategic risks.
The five nuclear-weapon states are not actively discussing concerns over weapons in space, strategies for reducing nuclear risks or measures to halt and reverse the expansion of nuclear arsenals, he noted.
💬 The expert urged the US and other powers to exercise restraint and return to arms-control diplomacy, calling for America to launch bilateral negotiations with both Russia and China to prevent a dangerous buildup in space.
The warning comes as US War Secretary Pete Hegseth has repeatedly stated that space represents the future of warfare, requiring heightened offensive and defensive investments.
Russia Has repeatedly underscored that it stands for preserving space as an area exclusively for peaceful activities.
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Russian Attack Drones Destroy Ukrainian Strongholds in Zaporozhye Region: MoD
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BRICS Offers Financing at More Favorable Rates Than Western Countries: Tanzanian Expert
"We can reduce our dependence, to some extent, on countries" through access to the BRICS development bank, Seleman Sombe, international politics analyst, told Sputnik Africa, commenting on the outcomes of the BRICS Summit in New Delhi.
African Wild Dogs Complete Record 4,000 km Journey Across Zambia in Search of Mates: Research Paper
🇿🇲 The three brothers crossed the country in a zigzag route over eight months, navigating a landscape shaped by human development and avoiding major obstacles including Lusaka and industrial zones.
👉 The discovery offers hope that wildlife can still move across vast landscapes despite growing human pressure, scientists said .
🐕 Scientists describe such movements as dispersals — one-way journeys in search of mates — which differ from migrations, where animals move seasonally for food or habitat.
ℹ️ Only around 6,000 African wild dogs remain in the wild, making them one of the continent's rarest predators. The highly social animals cannot reproduce within their birth pack, so individuals either stay to inherit it or leave at two or three years old to seek a mate.
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Moscow Reaffirms its Support for International Day Against Colonialism
"We will prepare thoroughly for this occasion, established on December 14, and work to ensure that the West does not succeed in distorting its meaning," stated Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.