By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Sahara Médias
Former Senegalese president Macky Sall is a candidate for the post of United Nations secretary-general, competing with five other contenders. Four of them are women, raising the possibility that a woman could take up the post for the first time after Antonio Guterres, whose term ends on 31 December this year.
Donald Trump says he asked Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean the “Trump Ocean”, but chief executive Sundar Pichai refused. The US president recounted the attempt at a rally in Georgia on 16 October 2026, according to La Nouvelle Tribune, after referring to other geographical renamings.
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A severely immunocompromised French patient infected with the Shamonda virus died in early October 2026, according to French authorities. First detected in humans and identified in Europe in late July, the virus now affects 14 Western European countries and is circulating in 52 French departments, according to French ministries and the ESA.
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Former US president Bill Clinton accuses Donald Trump of abandoning Ukraine and moving closer to Vladimir Putin. He cites the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which provided security assurances to Kyiv after it relinquished the Soviet nuclear arsenal, according to Zambianobserver.
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The verdict in the trial of seven healthcare professionals over Diego Maradona’s death is expected on 22 December, after around 50 hearings and six months of proceedings. Prosecutors have sought prison sentences of between four and 12 years for six defendants in the case concerning the care provided to the Argentine footballer at home, who died in November 2020, Le Monde reports.
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Nairobi march against fuel prices planned for 26 OctoberThe Kenyan Coalition of Human Rights Defenders plans a peaceful march against higher fuel prices and their impact on the cost of living. Between 500 and 900 people are due to walk from Kimathi Street to Nairobi’s State House on 26 October, Kenyans reports.The week in Africa
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