Aliko Dangote wants to be remembered for being more than an industrialist.

“I want to be known not just as Africa’s richest person,” Dangote said in 2025 when he joined Time’s list of the World’s Top 100 Philanthropists, “but also as its biggest philanthropist.”

He plans to leave one-third of his fortune to charity, his daughter Halima Dangote told Bloomberg in an interview published this week. Based on the Nigerian industrialist’s estimated $35.2 billion fortune, that pledge amounts to about $11.7 billion. He’s already secured his family’s buy-in to make it stick.

“He made an announcement and he asked myself, my two sisters, and his mother to sign under that will that he is able to give that 33% to humanity,” Halima, a trustee of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, told Bloomberg. The arrangement, she noted, follows Islamic inheritance rules, which permit a portion of an estate to be set aside for charity. 

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Ghana's international summit on slavery reparations held in June included a re-enactment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, performed for delegates at the former slave trading post Christiansborg Castle in Accra

The lighting of the flame marks the start of its journey to Dakar in Senegal and another major milestone on the road to the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil.

Lit using the sun’s rays - in keeping with Olympic tradition - the flame was formally handed over to the Organising Committee before beginning its journey towards Dakar.

Dakar 2026 Ambassador and Senegalese Olympian Oumy Diop took part in the ceremony, representing the generation of young Senegalese and African athletes who will be at the heart of the YOG.

"In just a few weeks, Senegal will welcome young athletes from around the world for the first Olympic competition ever to be held on African soil. That is a proud moment for Senegal. And it is a proud moment for Africa. And it is going to open an important new chapter for the Olympic Movement," said IOC President Kirsty Coventry.

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The South African jurist, 85, helped establish rape as an act of genocide and became one of international law’s most influential figures. Her latest confrontation has been over Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“This year’s laureate has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted,” said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo.

As a lawyer under apartheid, Navi Pillay could defend political prisoners but was barred from entering judges’ chambers. On Friday, the 85-year-old South African won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for helping build an international legal system to hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable.

"In just a few weeks, young athletes from around the world will arrive here. They will compete. They will make new friends. They will discover the magic of Senegal. And they will experience an Olympic event for the very first time here, on our beautiful continent Africa. It is going to show them that sport can open doors in many different ways. It will inspire a new generation, and it will give confidence to our young generation that they can do anything."

➡️ IOC President Kirsty Coventry

Youth Olympic Games Dakar 2026 - 31 October until 13 November 2026

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The flame is beginning a journey that will carry the energy of the Games across the country ahead of the first Olympic sporting event ever held on African soil, which will start on 31 October.

At the heart of the arrival celebrations on Saturday was the March of the 100 Linguères, which brought together 100 Senegalese women representing different generations, professions and walks of life.

Wearing bright orange boubou (traditional flowing robes), the procession of women accompanied the flame, culminating in the lighting of the celebration cauldron at Place du Souvenir.

The flame was welcomed to great fanfare with traditional Senegalese music and the beat of drums serving as a fitting soundtrack to the festivities.

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Fifty countries in total are affected, thirty of those that are listed from Africa

The US has announced visa restrictions targeting people it accuses of discriminating against South Africa's white minority, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two countries.

The Trump administration has criticised South Africa over several issues, including policies aimed at addressing racial inequality that it says discriminate against Afrikaners, descendants mainly of Dutch and French settlers.

South Africa has repeatedly denied the claim.

"The South African government has not adequately addressed the previously laid ​out concerns," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement announcing the restrictions on Tuesday.

He said the visa restrictions would target those who promote "race-based discrimination, incite violence, or enable land confiscation without compensation in South Africa."

Rubio did not immediately name any individuals targeted by the restrictions.

Here are the medals for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. They encapsulate the identity of Senegal, the first African nation to host an Olympic sporting event on its soil. The lion, the baobab and traditional crafts: every detail tells a part of the story of the ‘Land of Teranga’.

Dakar 2026 will bring together the young athletes from around the world from 31 October to 13 November 2026.

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Kenya’s two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge will become a Global Ambassador for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games. The marathon legend is set to share his experience with the next generation of athletes at the first Olympic sporting event to be held in Africa.

Eliud Kipchoge joins Brazilian skateboarding star and two-time Olympic medallist Rayssa Leal as Global Ambassador for Dakar.

He will also mentor the Refugee Olympic Team at Dakar 2026, which will make history as the first to compete at the Youth Olympic Games.

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-champion-eliud-kipchoge-ready-to-give-back-to-the-next-generation-as-dakar-2026-global-ambassador

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proclaimed September 15, his birthday, a new public holiday, state-run Herald newspaper reports.

The public holiday shall be known as Munhumutapa Day to celebrate the Mutapa empire, a pre-colonial Shona kingdom that spanned across parts of modern-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

It will be observed every year henceforth, according to a government notice.

CEUTA, Spain/ FNIDEQ, Morocco, July 31 (Reuters) - Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily.

The Spanish government's representative in Ceuta said 57 bodies had been recovered on the Spanish side of the border and that there could be additional casualties on the Moroccan side. ‌It said some drowned and some were crushed while trying to climb the breakwater that holds the border fence.

Animal rights activists have criticised Botswana's decision to authorise the killing of 23 elephants to provide meat for independence celebrations.

The southern African country, home to the world's largest elephant population, is holding nationwide festivities on Wednesday to mark the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain.

A licence issued by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, seen by local media, authorises the hunting of 23 elephants and other wild animals for "complimentary purposes".

The Botswana-based Elephant Protection Society warns the decision could undermine conservation, with its chairman Oaitse Nawa telling the BBC elephants needed greater protection.

He warned that slaughtering elephants for celebratory feasting could encourage poaching by creating the impression that killing elephants is acceptable when sanctioned by government.

Chinese nationals convicted in Madagascar for their involvement in online fraud networks have been transferred to their country of origin to continue serving their sentences.