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UN biodiversity summit enters crucial final week amid funding disputes and calls for urgent action From L-R: Kirsty Bryant, CBD Secretariat; and Co-Facilitators of a Friends of the Co-Chairs group on DSI Katie Beckett, UK, and Henry Michael Ndengejeho, Namibia.PHOTO/IISD/ENB – Mike Muzurakis. By PATRICK MAYOYO newsdesk@africaeconews.co.ke The United Nations Biodiversity Conference has entered its decisive final week, with governments facing mounting pressure to bridge funding gaps, reform harmful subsidies and strengthen accountability in the global fight against biodiversity loss. The 17th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 17) is expected to conclude on Friday,…

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‘Maybe if he continues to work hard he can become a player for Bafana,’ said the Chiefs head coach. Kaizer Chiefs head coach Fernando Da Cruz believes hat-trick hero Wandile Duba can play for Bafana Bafana if he continues to develop at Amakhosi. Duba’s treble for Chiefs The 22-year-old Duba bagged his first Chiefs hat-trick on Tuesday as they beat TS Galaxy 3-0 at FNB Stadium to reach the Carling Black Label Knockout quarterfinals. Duba has six goals in seven appearances in all domestic competitions this season for Chiefs. That is already his best tally in a single campaign. “I…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fighting for his political life, scrambled to bring out his base on Tuesday as Israelis voted in record numbers in the country’s first election since the Oct 7, 2023 attack. With Israeli Arabs voters turning out in strong numbers, Netanyahu raised fears that leaders of the minority group were out to “steal the election” and reverse the hardline Jewish nationalist direction in which his government has taken the country. The first exit polls showed the opposition bloc with a slight edge over Netanyahu’s camp as voting ended, but still shy of an outright majority in the…

Manchester United’s alarming slump has exposed the limits of the manager’s early revival, raising questions about his tactical identity, his authority and the club’s ability to sustain progress. Michael Carrick’s first months in charge of Manchester United offered something the club had struggled to find for years: a convincing reason to believe that its decline could be reversed without another expensive managerial reset. Replacing Ruben Amorim midway through the 2025/26 campaign, Carrick steadied a team that had looked short of direction and guided it to third place in the Premier League. His side won 12 of his first 17 league…

India’s biggest news publishers told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government’s data privacy law would force newsrooms to seek consent from the people they write about, a requirement their lawyer likened to censorship before publication and said could shut newsrooms down. The hearing opened the most prominent legal challenge so far to the law, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government passed as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act in 2023. A group of 21 news publishers is challenging it, including companies owned by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, and argues the law would trample investigative work and…

Støre said all their allies had been informed of the call ahead of time.Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was “very sceptical” of Tuesday’s dialogue, telling Danish broadcaster DR, it had not been “co-ordinated with any of the rest of us”.Meanwhile, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Stubb had informed him that Europe’s position on the upcoming talks in the United Arab Emirates, was “moderately optimistic”.Relations between the US, Ukraine and its European allies have been souring since US President Donald Trump agreed to lift some sanctions from Russia – allowing it to export oil to the US.But last…

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has reacted to Lamine Yamal missing out on the 2026 Ballon d’Or, insisting that the young winger deserved to win the prestigious individual award.Despite Yamal’s impressive performances, the Barcelona star finished third in the voting behind winner Harry Kane and Kylian Mbappé. Laporta expressed his belief that Yamal will eventually win the Ballon d’Or, backing the teenager to achieve the milestone in the coming years.”Lamine has sufficiently proven his merits to be the Ballon d’Or winner, but it couldn’t happen. We must now surround Lamine with love and support, for this is what he deserves. He…

Cobus Reinach is excited to see Stormers halfbacks Yaqeen Ahmed and Haashim Pead coming through, but noted that their success will depend on the work they put in. Reinach spoke in the build-up to Saturday’s clash between the Stormers and Ulster at Cape Town Stadium, where John Dobson’s men will look to make it four wins on the trot. The two-time World Cup winner featured off the bench in last week’s win over the Scarlets, and will again arm-wrestle Man of the Match Pead for the No 9 jersey. MORE: Scarra answers Stormers’ SOS call “I can’t tell you what…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has said it expects the Federal Government to present concrete proposals addressing workers’ outstanding demands as negotiations resume on Tuesday, October 27, 2026. The talks follow an earlier meeting that ended without an agreement on petrol prices, minimum wage negotiations and other unresolved labour issues affecting public-sector workers. The NLC had insisted that the government should come prepared with responses to demands already submitted by organised labour rather than prolong discussions without concrete commitments. The previous meeting, held on October 22, ended without a resolution after the government delegation reportedly arrived without the necessary mandate…