AFCON: Salah, Egypt clash with Senegal in star-studded first semifinal
Pre-tournament favourites Senegal face AFCON’s most successful team in Wednesday’s eagerly awaited first semifinal.

Pre-tournament favourites Senegal face AFCON’s most successful team in Wednesday’s eagerly awaited first semifinal.









UK PM calls arrival of blogger and Egyptian government critic, who spent nearly 12 years in prison, ‘profound relief’.
Egypt reach the knockout stages with a 1-0 win against South Africa while Angola and Zimbabwe draw.
Record winners Egypt, led by Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, face South Africa in the first titanic battle of the tournament.
Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has joined Egypt for AFCON 2025 but has been linked with a move to the Saudi Pro League.
Israeli attack kills at least six Palestinians attending wedding party at school-turned-shelter in Gaza City.
Natural gas agreement worth approximately $35bn comes amid frayed relations over Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced ‘the largest gas deal in Israel’s history’ with Egypt.
The uprisings did not collapse into irrelevance. They transformed how millions understood citizenship and dignity.
Fifteen years on, repression is deeper, dissent is criminalised, but democracy is still the public demand.