A historic drought across southern Africa has jeopardised access to food for 26 million people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned Wednesday, calling for urgent funding. The crisis, worsened by the 2023-2024 El Nino climate phenomenon, is expected to deepen until at least the next harvests due in March or April next year.”Today we …
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A leading Niger civil society figure and critic of the military-led authorities has been arrested after returning from a trip abroad, his NGO and other sources said.The reason for the detention late on Tuesday of Moussa Tchangari, who has voiced “total support” for Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum, is not known.He is among those who …
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Dressed in a white singlet with a scarf tied around his head, Frank crouched near a muddy pit, preparing to plunge his hands into the soil in search of gold.Around him, shirtless men, their bodies smeared with dirt and glistening with sweat, worked tirelessly under the blazing sun, near Ghana’s capital Accra.Some shovelled sand into …
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French nuclear group Orano said Wednesday that authorities in Niger had taken “operational control” of its uranium mining unit, in an escalating spat between the company and the country’s military junta.The junta, which took power in a coup in July last year, has vowed to revamp rules regulating the mining of raw materials by foreign …
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President Joe Biden will make the case on Wednesday in Angola that the United States must do better rather than more than China to regain influence in Africa. Biden is on the second day of a visit to the African country, where the United States is showcasing a major infrastructure project aimed at countering China’s investments …
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The Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh has been appointed the first African woman to lead the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most important contemporary art shows.The 57-year-old has headed the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town since 2019 and will curate the next biennale in 2026.Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco hailed …
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Former president John Mahama, Ghana’s main opposition leader, makes a third run for the presidency in Saturday’s election, hoping to reclaim power as the ruling party faces public discontent over the economy.Mahama, of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) party, faces Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, who represents the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). Both candidates hail from …
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Ghanaian Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia hopes to make history as the first New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate to secure three consecutive terms for his party in Saturday’s election.Standing in his way is a familiar foe, former president John Mahama, who seeks a political comeback after losses in 2016 and 2020. Bawumia’s ruling NPP is aiming at “breaking the eight” …
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When Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia announced last year he would run for president, his ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) was certain he would lead them to an unprecedented third term.Even their slogan dared to say they would be “Breaking the eight” — a reference to going beyond President Nana Akufo-Addo’s two terms of four …
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Mohamed Idris, 27, has despaired of ever finding a job in war-torn Sudan. Instead, he’s now set his sights on a training camp on the Eritrean border, hoping to join a militia.”I got my university degree but there aren’t any job opportunities, if I get into a training camp I can at least defend my …
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