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Marcus Reed

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A vessel at the Dangote refinery complex in Lagos, Nigeria
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Wednesday, 8/19, 09:28 PM

How the Iran War Made Africa's Richest Man Even Richer

  • When war in the Middle East sent fuel prices soaring, Aliko Dangote's giant Lagos refinery was ready.
  • The crisis that squeezed households across Africa turned Nigeria into a fuel exporter for the first time and added billions to the fortune of the continent's richest man.
The 12th hole at Royal Birkdale Golf Club, framed by the dunes
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Ryan Fox birdies the last to win The Open by one

  • The New Zealander closed at 10 under par to take his first major championship at Royal Birkdale, holing from 11 and a half feet on the 72nd hole to beat Cameron Young.
  • Sam Burns, who led overnight, finished third.

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In brief

St Peter's Square in Vatican City (file photograph)
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Vatican excommunicates SSPX bishops in first crisis of Pope Leo's papacy

  • The Vatican declared six bishops of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X excommunicated on July 2, after the group consecrated four new bishops without papal permission — a defiant act that Rome said had placed the society in formal schism.
  • It is the sharpest rupture yet with the breakaway movement and the first major crisis of Pope Leo XIV's young pontificate.

In brief

In brief

In brief