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Achakzai convenes three-day jirga in Quetta from 29 August to address Balochistan highway attacks, killing of civilians and disruption of trade

Pakistan's daily fuel pricing mechanism drives cumulative petrol increase past Rs20 per litre in July

Wooden canoe capsizes in Jigawa state carrying forty passengers; more than 55 killed in Nigerian boat accidents so far this year

Nigerian alleged coup plotters sought to recruit repentant Boko Haram fighters and Civilian JTF members, investigation reveals

Indonesia allocates Rp5.9 trillion for MagangHub apprenticeship and vocational training expansion

Prabowo chairs meeting to review drought and extreme weather preparedness measures

Nigerian lawmakers convene fuel importers and local refiners to negotiate downstream supply terms

Dhaka tribunal frames charges against couple accused of raping and murdering eight-year-old Ramisa; trial begins tomorrow

Mcebisi Jonas calls for pan-African framework on migration after South Africa protests

Writing in Premium Times, the former South African deputy finance minister argues the recent anti-immigration protests must be converted into a structured continental conversation on why Africans leave home and how neighbouring states can confront migration together. Jonas frames the crisis as an opening for collective negotiation rather than unilateral enforcement.

Yemeni free climber Al-Qa'qa' bin Antar dies after fall into volcanic crater

Bin Antar, 30, known online as the 'Spider-Man of Yemen' for scaling sheer rock faces without ropes, fell Friday while attempting the 120-metre Haradhat Damt crater in Al Dhale province. Civil defence teams recovered his body Saturday after a nearly 24-hour operation using diving units and lighting systems to navigate the steep interior terrain. He had previously cited poverty as his motivation for the climbs.

China Mobile launches SEA-H2X submarine cable linking Southeast Asia to Hainan and Hong Kong

The Southeast Asia-Hainan-Hong Kong international submarine cable, led and invested in by China Mobile, began commercial operations on 22 July. The cable connects multiple Southeast Asian landing points to southern China, extending Beijing's undersea communications infrastructure across a corridor serving Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia.

Punjab restores pre-partition street names across Lahore's Walled City

Krishan Nagar is Krishan Nagar again. Under the Lahore Heritage Area Revival project, the Punjab government is returning pre-partition names to streets renamed during the Zia era and earlier — Rehman Gali back to Ram Gali, Guru Tegh Bahadur Street restored where it had become Aurangzeb Street. Residents never stopped using the old names; the city's folk memory outlasted sixty years of official overwriting. The project reverses what began with a 1952 municipal proposal to rename 76 roads — including one to rename Lahore itself.

Hasan Dhaimish's jazz paintings shown in Lancashire, decades after a shortwave radio on a Benghazi rooftop tuned him to Motown

In 1969, a fourteen-year-old in Benghazi caught Smokey Robinson on a shortwave radio and never let go. Hasan Dhaimish became one of Libya's sharpest political cartoonists — his alter-ego Al-Satoor carved caricatures of Gaddafi-era politicians for decades — but a parallel body of work, vivid paintings of Billie Holiday and the blues, stayed mostly private. His son Sherif exhibited them at Pendle Heritage Centre in Lancashire from 23 March to 2 April under the title "Breezin." Hasan arrived in Burnley in 1977 as an asylum-seeker, married, studied art at the University of Bradford, and taught graphics and photography at Nelson and Colne College. One painting, "Funky 16 Corners," took nearly three years; Sherif says it is the only piece his father would have refused to sell.