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[George T. Diano @georgediano]

Tomorrow we are supporting Mexico 🇲🇽 so that South Africa 🇿🇦 can go back home early to protect their jobs.

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says "we prefer the language of diplomacy…"

"But we speak other languages far more fluently."

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

BREAKING: Trump administration claims the Somali referee was denied entry because he is a security threat to the US with links to suspected terrorists. He was questioned for 11 hours, including about Al Shabab

Omar Abdulkadir Artan just landed back in Somalia to a hero's welcome

[Abdikarin Dahir @Abdikarindahirr]

🚨| 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 : 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗢𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻 has arrived in Mogadishu to an extraordinary welcome, Crowds gathered in the capital to honor the award-winning referee best Referee, who remains a symbol of pride and inspiration for Somalia.

Omar Artan Was going to be first Somali to officiate at a World Cup.
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[SL Benfica @SLBenfica]

A Benfica SAD comunicou à CMVM que o Real Madrid CF formalizou a intenção de contratar José Mourinho pelo valor de 15 milhões de euros, tendo o treinador dado o seu acordo.

Obrigado, José Mourinho.

[Galaxy TV Jikonkone @GalaxyTVUg]

Luno lutandisse

[Merry Hearts 'Tumbeetu. @Merryheartsug]

They will always clap for you 🙌🙌🤣🤣
Ugandans

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- Chinese engineers building Togo's new international airport couldn't find enough nails in Togo for the job and had to order nails from China.

Chinese project managers in Ghana, Kenya, and elsewhere said engineers were not up to the task and had to train them afresh.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- Meanwhile, China entered the picture.

Chinese companies undertook the task of upgrading neglected infrastructure or building entirely new bridges, dual-carriage roads, airports, sports facilities, and more.

But here too, Africa's structural weaknesses were revealed.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- When it became clear that AGOA would not work because African countries were too weak to meet their export volumes, attention turned to digital technology.

Consortia were formed to install undersea fibre optic cables to deliver fast, affordable Internet to Africa.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- Last month, May 2026, Kenya -- Africa's sixth-largest economy -- halted plans for Microsoft to build a data centre.

It would have used 30% of Kenya's electricity, plunging Kenya into darkness.

That even Kenya doesn't generate enough power was a humbling revelation.

[Al Jazeera Breaking News @AJENews]

Iran's football federation says its ticket allocation for the FIFA World Cup has been withdrawn just days before football's global showpiece begins, leaving fans unable to attend their team's matches.

🔴 More on https://t.co/5H0QqpfIYw

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: IRAN’S WORLD CUP TEAM ARRIVED IN MEXICO WEARING PINS WITH THE NUMBER 168 REMEMBERING THE 168 SCHOOL CHILDREN KlLLED BY US STRIKE

[Daniel @danlfcynwa_]

I need a Muslim country to knock the US out of the World Cup if possible

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- Most of Africa's intelligentsia has still never grasped just how radically transformative the Internet is.

In their minds, social media, for example, is one more platform to hold governments to account rather than a vehicle to bypass governments altogether.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- Over the last 30 years, millions of Africans have joined the Internet. We've got free email and social media accounts. In a sense, we're all now dual citizens.

On these platforms, it's pure merit and full rights, something our states deny us.

So, how do we use them?

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- It should be noted that consistently across the continent, populations place a higher value on people from their own ethnic or religious groups being in government or public office than on the delivery of effective public administration and services.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- If free and fair elections don't necessarily lead to effective, accountable public administration, we then must admit that the problem is rooted in society's choices and preferences. In effect, it suggests that people don't know what they want and what's good for them.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

AFRICA
- The least developed of the major inhabited continents. Most observers think it's a lack of democracy. But countries that hold free and fair elections are not much different from those that don't. What, then, is the problem?

This is the subject of today's discussion.

[Ahmed Shihab-Eldin @aseisfree]

The Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan, selected by @FIFAWorldCup and distinguished by CAF as the best African referee of 2025, was rejected upon arriving in the United States at Miami airport and deported back to Istanbul.

This World Cup is the worst.