Crouching over a small wood-scrap fire in Sudan’s war-battered Darfur region, Aziza Ismail Idris stirs a pot of watery porridge — the only food her family have had for days.”No organisation has come. No water, no food — not even a biscuit for the children,” Idris told AFP, her voice brittle with fatigue.Having fled a …
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Success Eduan lived up to her name by anchoring Britain to a thrilling victory in the 4x100m at the world relays in Guangzhou on Sunday as Akani Simbine led South Africa to victory in the men’s event.Eduan produced a thrilling final leg to outpace Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson and Twanisha Terry of the United States for …
Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, the head of the top contemporary art museum in Africa and first African woman appointed to lead the Venice Biennale, has died Saturday, the Zeitz MOCAA museum said.Born in 1967, Kouoh had headed the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), in South Africa’s Cape Town, since 2019.She was chosen …
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A court in Paris on Tuesday is set to hand down a verdict in the sexual assault trial of French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu, a case that gripped the country for weeks.As the ruling will coincide with the start of the Cannes Film Festival, it is likely to be among the biggest talking points on …
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Journalists are facing raids and terrorism charges in Ethiopia as the media denounces a renewed “climate of fear” ahead of elections next year. There had been hopes for greater press freedom after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took power in 2018, with exiled journalists encouraged to return.But a brutal war in the Tigray region from 2020 to …
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Out west, they groove with fast, evenly spaced beats. In the east, it’s more free-form and fluid.Like humans, chimpanzees drum rhythmically — and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa even have their own signature styles, according to a study published Friday in Current Biology.The idea that ape drumming might hold clues to the …
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A posse of turban-clad soldiers perched on “ships of the desert” may conjure images of the past but Mauritania’s camelback cavalry play a vital role in the fight against jihadism today.They are the Meharists, heirs to the camel-riding army units founded back in the time when imperialist France ruled the west African nation, who AFP …
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Italy has handed over to France the man accused of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque two weeks ago, a French prosecutor said Friday.Aboubakar Cisse was stabbed dozens of times while attending prayers at the mosque in the southern French town of La Grand-Combe on April 25.Olivier Hadzovic, a 20-year-old French national …
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South Africa had “expressed concern” to the United States after reports it will accept from next week the first white Afrikaners it had offered to resettle, the foreign ministry said Friday.US media reported Thursday that Donald Trump’s administration plans to welcome the first group of white South Africans as early as Monday, after the US …
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Adele Koue Sungbeu underwent female genital mutilation as a teenager but now holds her head up high and smiles broadly as she walks to work in Abidjan after reconstructive surgery.The 45-year-old midwife is one of 28 women from the west African country who underwent the procedure last month in a public hospital in Ivory Coast’s …
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