JAYSIM HANSPAL Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera stripped vice-president Saulos Chilima of all delegated powers on Tuesday after he was named in a $150m corruption scandal. In a move to combat corruption, President Chakwera is following up on a recent report by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) and fired senior officials, including inspector general of police George […]
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FAUSTINE NGILA A tooth. A state funeral. An apology. About 61 years after the assassination of DRC’s freedom hero Patrice Lumumba under the backing of the country’s colonial master Belgium, preparations are underway for his official funeral in Kinshasa. All that remains of the country’s hero is a golden tooth after his mutilated body was […]
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Meet the pageant queen who is raising awareness about climate change. BYNEHA WADEKAR, Twenty-one-year-old Khadija Omar stands by the trough at a giraffe sanctuary in Garissa County, northern Kenya, wearing a silk sash that reads Miss Somalia and a fashionable wide-brimmed sun hat to protect her flawless skin from the blazing midday heat. She is […]
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As a prince, he’s among a select few who are traditionally entitled to wear an eye-catching fabric of vivid indigo with intricate white patterns. “It’s an ndop, not everyone can wear it,” he said with pride, to the beat of tam-tam drums and the balafon, a type of xylophone, in the western town of Batie. […]
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VICTOR MOTURI Francis Kamau boasts a large farm in the beautiful Laikipia County plains in Kenya. Each year as he prepares his land for the next crop season, a nagging question refuses to leave his mind: “Will my crop survive an elephant attack?” Kamau, who lives in Mathira village near the Laikipia west conservancy, keeps […]
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BUSANI BAFANA In early June 2022, more than 30 people from the Maasai community in the Loliondo division in Tanzania’s northern Ngorongoro District were reportedly injured, and one person died following clashes with security forces over the demarcation of their ancestral lands for a new game reserve. According to human rights organizations, the Maasai community […]
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The UN Security Council on Tuesday urged greater action to stop piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which has become by far the world’s riskiest waters for maritime kidnappings. A Security Council resolution — approved unanimously despite high tensions between veto-wielding Russia and the West — said it “strongly condemns” the spike of piracy in […]
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NAKISANZE SEGAWA Godfrey Kizito takes a break from his busy shoe repair shop every day so he can enjoy his favorite snack, a vegetable and egg omelet rolled in a freshly prepared chapati known as a Rolex. But for the past few weeks, this daily ritual has given him neither the satisfaction nor the sustenance […]
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IFEANYI NSOFOR The world is in the midst of a monkeypox outbreak. The World Health Organization has recorded more than 500 cases in 30 countries this year – including the United Kingdom, the United States and a number of European nations. And how do Western media outlets illustrate the story? The BBC, the Independent, CNBC […]
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Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities. The discovery at a cemetery in Saqqara contained statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and Hathor along with a headless statue of the architect Imhotep, who built the Saqqara pyramid, Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism […]
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