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As the country slides towards electoral authoritarianism, even SADC and EAC election observers have been excluded from the polls. Tanzania is approaching its October 2025 general elections with uncertainty. The main opposition party Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) has been disqualified from running, and the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) is manoeuvring to claim its seventh consecutive term. CHADEMA chairperson Tundu Lissu is in custody on treason charges due to his party’s demands for electoral reforms. The ‘no reforms, no elections’ campaign has been interpreted by the courts as an attempt to disrupt the polls. Lissu is also charged…

LevelK has boarded international sales for Oscar-winning director Mike van Diem’s upcoming Dutch feature film “Our Girls,” currently in post-production. Van Diem’s debut feature film “Character” (Karakter), a dramatic crime thriller, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film at the 70th Academy Awards, and was released in the U.S. by Sony Pictures Classics. Van Diem also previously won a Student Academy Award with the student film “Alaska.” “Our Girls” is set during an idyllic holiday in the Austrian Alps, as the long-standing friendship between two couples spins out of control. It is a loose adaptation of Dutch novel…

The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced multiple times, and many are dying from Israeli-induced starvation. An unprecedented water crisis is also unfolding across the enclave, heaping further misery on its residents.Gaza was already suffering a water crisis before nearly 22 months of Israeli bombardment and ground operations damaged more than 80 percent of the territory’s water infrastructure.“Sometimes, I feel as though my body is drying from the inside. Thirst is stealing all my energy and that of my children,” said Um Nidal Abu Nahl, a mother of four living in Gaza City.Water trucks occasionally reach residents,…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature77th over: England 347-6 (Smith 2, Overton 8) England need 27 to win Krishna to finish off the four balls of last night’s over. Overton pulls the first, a short ball, for four. Bang. The next also greets the boundary – an awkward inside edge, scything past leg stump. Has a dirty swipe at the next, misses. And plays back carefully at the fourth.ShareMorning session – England need 35 to winA full house, a huddle for India, chewing gum for Jamie Smith. Jerusalem the soundtrack.Jamie Smith and Jamie Overton…

How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, known by it’s Italian initialism CNSAS, relied on AI to find the body of a person missing in Italy’s Piedmont region on the north face of Monviso—the highest peak in the Cottian Alps—since September 2024.According to Saverio Isola, the CNSAS drone pilot who intervened along…

Emilia BelliWestminster correspondent, BBC Wales NewsMel WallaceMel Wallace was a keen motorbike rider but now, as she waits for a hip replacement, she struggles to put her own socks onNHS patients from Wales who need knee and hip operations in England face lengthy delays after a health board asked English hospitals to copy Wales’ longer waiting times.Powys health board announced the change as it could not afford the cost of how quickly operations over the border were being carried out, but patients have said they were not informed.Mel Wallace, 59, from Howey, Powys, was initially told she would have a…

NewsFeedThe stepmother of a Palestinian boy, whose killing was witnessed by an American contractor at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid site, has told Al Jazeera his body is still missing. She didn’t know what happened to Abdul Rahim after he went to retrieve food, until whistleblower Anthony Aguilar posted photos of ‘Amir’.Published On 4 Aug 20254 Aug 2025

The outcry after a recent marketplace crackdown on games with adult content, seemingly due to pressure from payment processors, prompted Mastercard to release a brief statement Friday pushing back against recent headlines. “Mastercard has not evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms, contrary to media reports and allegations,” the company said, adding, “At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.” This follows an open letter by the advocacy group Collective Shout addressed to executives at…

When 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut’s port on August 4, 2020, it ripped through the city, killing more than 218 people. Among them was three-year-old Alexandra Naggear.Five years later, the investigation into who is at fault for the blast has been delayed, and at times derailed, by political interference.“The most important thing for us is not for the decision, but for full justice to happen,” Tracy Naggear, Alexandra’s mother and a key activist advocating for the blast’s victims, told Al Jazeera by phone. “And we won’t accept a half-truth or half-justice.”As the fifth anniversary of the tragedy…

Addra* insists that his aunt, Anyessi Dossou, does not have a story to tell. “She’s just an old woman who’s never left the village,” he says, as he guides us along dirt tracks in fading light to her home in Avlo, Benin.When Dossou, in her early 80s, emerges from her room in the compound house she shares with generations of her extended family, the conversation begins hesitantly. “I told you,” Addra says.Then the levees break. Asked about her husband, Dossou recounts the impact of being widowed at a young age and raising five children. She speaks of small joys and…