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The tickets for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations have been booked! Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania will be flying to Morocco when the competition begins at the end of next year. Meanwhile, standoff continues between hundreds of illegal miners and police in South Africa. After wanting to, quote, “to smoke them out”, the government says it’s now planning a professional rescue operation. Finally, Patrice Lumumba was one of DR Congo’s national heroes. A mausoleum containing his tooth has been ransacked. That tooth is all that remains of the murdered politician, and it was returned to Congo from Belgium in 2022. But now, it’s current whereabouts are unknown.