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, the standoff continues between hundreds of illegal miners and police in South Africa. After wanting to "to smoke them out", the government says it's now planning a professional rescue operation. Finally, a mausoleum containing a tooth of DR Congo's independence hero Patrice Lumumba has been ransacked. That tooth is all that remains of the murdered politician, and it was returned to DR Congo from Belgium in 2022. But now, its current whereabouts are unknown.