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Houthi attacks in the Red Sea have severely disrupted maritime navigation through the Suez Canal, with the number of transiting ships dropping from 70-80 vessels per day to just 30-35, said Admiral Osama Rabie, Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), during celebrations marking the 69th anniversary of the Canal’s nationalization. Despite daily challenges, Admiral Rabie emphasized that the Suez Canal remains one of the world’s most vital maritime routes. He stressed that the Canal’s long history of overcoming adversity is a testament to its resilience and the professionalism of those managing it–a reputation that has earned the Suez Canal…

The US’s largest companies have spent 2025 locked in a competition to spend more money than one another, lavishing $155bn on the development of artificial intelligence, more than the US government has spent on education, training, employment and social services in the 2025 fiscal year so far.Based on the most recent financial disclosures of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, the race is about to accelerate to hundreds of billions in a single year.Over the past two weeks, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet, Google’s parent, have shared their quarterly public financial reports. Each disclosed that their year-to-date capital expenditure, a figure that…

Le Court, who became the first African rider to win a stage in the Tour on Wednesday, caught up to the chasing group on the final descent into Chambery to finish sixth and retain the yellow jersey.”I wasn’t feeling so good since the start of the stage, the last few days I’ve been going through some stuff,” said the 29-year-old from Mauritius.”On the last climb it was difficult, my body just shut off. Then I had to do the best downhill of my life.”France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prevot remains second in the general classification, with defending champion Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney third and 2023…

NGOs report limited resources for consumer education and pesticide testing, which they believe hinders effective enforcement of pesticide limits. They also perceive a governmental reluctance to implement significant changes. The African Centre for Biodiversity (Acbio) released a compilation of the past two decades of research on pesticide use in South Africa on 21 July 2025, in the form of a searchable and downloadable database. The centre hopes this will help with advocacy for policy change and the banning of certain pesticides. The aim is to help “collective efforts to push the government to prioritise the urgent complete overhaul of the…

390 The Constitutional Council of Cameroon has officially announced that it will begin hearing pre-election disputes from August 4, 2025, as part of the legal process leading up to the October 12 presidential election. The hearings will take place at the Palais des Congrès in Yaoundé, according to a press release signed by the President of the Council, Clément Atangana. This move follows the closure of the 72-hour appeal window, which ended at midnight on July 28, three days after Elections Cameroon (ELECAM) released the official list of approved candidates for the upcoming election. During this period, political parties and…

Megha MohanGender and identity correspondent, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesDuring a meeting at her office in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, 24-year-old Faith suddenly became nervous – reluctant to be perceived as difficult in a part of the world that does not like opinionated young women.It had started pleasantly enough. Faith, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, had dutifully laughed along at the bad jokes made by her bosses.But then a senior colleague made a suggestion that she felt would not work practically. But before Faith could express her opinion, her colleague mentioned her name.”And Faith agrees with me!”…

The Western Zone of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) says tankers will no longer load more than 45,000 litres of the product from Oct. 1. The chairman of the zone, Chief Oyewole Akanni, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Friday. Akanni stated that the measure was adopted in a joint meeting involving IPMAN, the government, and other stakeholders, held to reduce the cases of petroleum tanker accidents. The stakeholders, he said, are the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO), the Nigerian Midstream and…

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