French President Emmanuel Macron attended a ceremony to formally hand back 26 items taken from the kingdom of Dahomey in the south of present-day Benin, currently exhibited at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum in Paris. It is the first step in a process undertaken in 2017 to improve the relationship between France and Africa. The 26 pieces, from a trove of objects snatched by French forces in 1892, are being shown for just six days at the Quai Branly museum before being shipped to the West African country later this month.Macron attended a handover ceremony on Wednesday afternoon at the museum in the presence…
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Issued on: 28/10/2021 – 03:48 Tunisia’s media authority on Wednesday ordered the closure of Nessma TV channel founded by defeated presidential candidate Nabil Karoui. The authority, known as HAICA, seized the channel’s broadcast equipment and said in a statement that Nessma TV was broadcasting without a licence.“Despite multiple letters and meetings, the channel continued its activities illegally,” the media authority said.In July Karoui’s former opponent, President Kais Saied, sacked the prime minister, suspended parliament and granted himself judicial powers after months of political stalemate.He followed that move last month with measures that effectively allow him to rule by decree, in…
Instead of voting for the bankrupt ANC or DA, South Africans could do better with social movement candidates in upcoming local elections. Sunset over the Port Elizabeth, beachfront, Eastern Cape. Image credit Rodger Bosch via Media Club South Africa on Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0. This is one in a series of re-publications, as part of our partnership with the South African publication, Amandla. On November 1, 2021, South Africans head to the polls to elect candidates for district, local and metropolitan municipalities in the country’s nine provinces. As it stands, 325 political parties are contesting and more than 60,000 candidates will be…
When Law Roach was nine years old, his mom told him, “If you don’t work, you don’t eat, so figure it out.” That statement would inspire him to become what he is today — a famous celebrity fashion stylist who has styled the likes of Celine Dion, Zendaya, Ariana Grande, Anne Hathaway, Tiffany Haddish, and more. In fact, many celebrities, particularly, Dion and Zendaya, successfully rebranded under his watch. Raised on the South Side of Chicago in a very tough neighborhood, Roach was the eldest of five children. He learned early in life that he had to make his own…
Annual Wildebeest Migration Begins In Maasai Mara ?…***EXCLUSIVE*** MAASAI MARA,? KENYA – AUGUST 15: Chaotic scenes as zebra and wildebeest desperately attempt to scale the Mara river’s banks, while hundreds more look on fearfully during the annual migration from Tanzania to Kenya, on August 15, 2012 in Maasai Mara, Kenya. This is the moment hundreds of stampeding animals desperately try and escape the deadly jaws of a croc. Thousands of zebras, wildebeest and gazelles stormed across the Mara river in kenya during the annual migration. But lying in wait was dozens of brutal crocodiles ready to pick off stranglers. The…
Writing about drinks has taken me all over the world – but few adventures are seared in my memory as vividly as the week I spent in Swartland, South Africa’s red-dust wine wilderness in the Western Cape. By European standards, the wineries here are isolated: many lie at the end of long, axle-breaking tracks, on plots dwarfed by hazy-blue mountains. But the sense of community is strong. Whatever time I turned up, it seemed, there was always room for one more at the long refectory table at the heart of every household – and it was rarely long before someone was…
The move has crushed hopes for a peaceful transition of power following the ousting of former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019.Sudan had been ruled by an uneasy alliance between the military and civilian groups since 2019. But on Monday, the military effectively took control, dissolving the power-sharing Sovereign Council and transitional government, and temporarily detaining Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, said that the agreement with civilian members of the country’s transitional sovereign council “became a conflict” over the past two years, “threatening peace and unity” in Sudan. Several articles of the constitution have been suspended…
Many people still think of climate change as a phenomenon that we will only face in the distant future. Perhaps that’s partly because climate change projections about rising temperatures and extreme weather events are tied to future dates: 2030, 2050, or 2100, for instance. But it’s important to realise that we already are experiencing climate change, and have done so for some time now. Over the past century, global temperatures have increased by approximately 1°C. Sea level rise is already starting to affect certain low-lying coastal communities. The world is experiencing more frequent and intense extreme climate events. The Intergovernmental…
The recommendation is based on results from an ongoing pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi that has reached more than 800 000 children since 2019. “This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Using this vaccine on top of existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year.” Malaria remains a primary cause of childhood illness and death in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 260 000 African children under the age of five die from malaria…
BioNTech is moving forward with plans to build vaccine manufacturing facilities on the African continent, with an announcement Tuesday that Rwanda has been chosen for the first site. Dr. Daniel Ngamije, the health minister for Rwanda, said the first facility will be built at the Kigali Special Economic Zone (KSEZ), next to the Kigali Innovation City. It is expected to begin producing mRNA vaccines by mid-2022. Both Rwanda and Senegal signed MOUs with BioNTech and the European Investment Bank following talks that date back to summer. Ngamije said the deal, sealed on the sidelines of the Second Ministerial Meeting of…