Egypt’s media regulating agency has announced that it will impose strict rules on streaming platforms such as Netflix in an effort to preserve Islamic societal norms and values.According to the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR), Netflix, Disney+, and other streaming services would also need to submit license applications in order to be allowed to operate in the country. The announcement is in line with similar actions taken by media organizations in Gulf states asking Netflix to take down material that they said went against Islamic principles and customs, including content targeted at youngsters, which appears to be a reference…
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Purnaa Deb’s work stands at the intersection of grace and redemption and looks at what is possible. She explores the liminal space between chaos and order. Fadzai Muchemwa on the work of the Johannesburg-based Purnaa Deb The beauty within, 2019 In-between Sky and Garden: Purnaa Deb’s Exploration of Yearning and Groundedness. And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. – Arundhati Roy. The Goddess of Small Things Purnaa Deb’s body of work Between Sky…
Thousands of people gathered at the Zulu royal palace on August 20th for the coronation of a new king in the country’s richest and most influential traditional monarchy. Misuzulu Zulu, 47, is set to succeed his father, Goodwill Zwelithini, who died in March 2021 after 50 years in charge, but a bitter succession dispute threatened to overshadow the ceremony. “Today the Zulu nation starts a new chapter,” the new sovereign told well-wishers speaking from a podium in a large white marquee, wearing a traditional leopard skin and a necklace of predator claws. “I promise I will work to unite the Zulu…
We found the source as a 2019 World Health Organization article titled “Maternal health in Nigeria: generating information for action”. “A Nigerian woman has a 1 in 22 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum/post-abortion,” it says. But this data was dated, Ann-Beth Moller, a technical officer with the WHO’s sexual and reproductive health and research department, told Africa Check. “Please note the website reported old data,” she said. The article estimates Nigeria’s maternal mortality rate as more than 800 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. The most recent data was the trends in maternal mortality 2000…
The ban intends to promote Nigerian advertising and highlight its skills.Nigeria prohibits voice actors and international advertisers from working on its commercials. Nigeria is the first nation to pass a law of this kind. The prohibition will go into force on October 1; however, active projects using foreign talent that were in progress before to the announcement will be permitted to continue.The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCOND), which first broke the news on August 23, said that the proposal was in line with government initiatives aimed at expanding the Nigerian advertising business as a whole.Nigeria forbids the use of…
Birding Uganda has long been known as a birding Mecca, drawing birders from all over the world to witness rare species like the shoebill stork and Green-breasted pitta. While Uganda as a whole has over a thousand different bird species, Murchison alone has over 450! The park’s tremendously diversified topography supports an incredible variety of species. Over the course of a few days, birdwatchers can see a wide range of birds, from herons, ducks, terns, and cormorants that thrive in the Nile and its adjacent deltas to bustards and cranes that graze the broad plains, Murchison has it all! shoebill…
Formerly Zaire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is located in central Africa and has a small coastline. In Africa, it is the third largest country and the world’s 12th largest. It has Africa’s fourth highest population and the 18th highest in the world with 85,906,342 million people. The country is often referred to as DR Congo, DROC, DRC, or RDC. It is also called Congo-Kinshasa after the capital. The country borders the Central African Republic and Sudan to the north. To the east, it borders Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi, Zambia and Angola to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean…
The 1st Vice President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Seyi Akinwunmi, on Sunday, unveiled a 4-point agenda for his bid to become the President of the body in the September presidential election. Akinwunmi revealed the 4-point agenda at a media interactive session held at Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa, Lagos. NAN reports that the NFF 1st Vice President has declared to run for the NFF presidency scheduled for Friday, September 30, in Benin City, Edo State. Akinwunmi is hoping to take over the baton from the incumbent, Amaju Pinnick, who came into office eight years ago Akinwunmi who doubles as…
Under a blazing sun in Mali’s capital, Amadou Menta leant over to measure a gutter then jotted down the results on a mapping app on his smartphone. “We’re collecting data,” said the 27-year-old geography student, helping to chart the roadside drains of central Bamako with two friends. Until recently Mali’s capital was largely uncharted on the web. With street names or fixed public transport routes often missing in the city of some two million, people tend to ask for directions to find their way. But the lack of maps is a major obstacle to developing its infrastructure, whether to prevent traffic jams, collect…
Cannabis has come a long way since it existed only in plant form. Thanks to the latest extraction techniques, we can now incorporate cannabinoids into a wide range of goods, from food and beverages to skincare and cosmetics. The development of a wide range of technology, from sophisticated pure edible cannabis products to high-tech vaporizers, has resulted from this market’s emergence and competition. The cannabis industry as we know it now was simply a pipe dream in the minds of solid desires twenty years ago. Users at that time had limited access to supplies besides flowers of average quality. The…