Our Top Alterative and Unique Kenya Safari Lodges The Maasai Mara is renowned worldwide for its game viewing, and it is no wonder people flock here. But outside of this famous park, Kenya has so much to offer. With the UK government taking Kenya off the red list and the Kenyans subsequently adding UK nationals to their self-isolation exemption list, we can all start dreaming and more importantly, experiencing incredible safaris once again. Here we take a quick look at four must-visit lodges outside the Maasai Mara. Asilia Ol Pejeta Bush Camp Home to the last two Northern white rhino,…
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On October 7th, Senegal’s Foreign Minister Aissata TALL SALL presided over the official launch ceremony for the seventh edition of the Dakar International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa. Since 2014, the Dakar Forum, held under the high patronage of Senegalese President Macky Sall, has been one of the most important conferences on development and security in Africa, bringing together heads of state, policymakers from throughout Africa and from partner countries around the world such as Japan, international organisations, NGOs and key figures from the private sector. This year’s Dakar Forum, which will be held on 6 and 7…
Artista Amarela Ivorian/French entrepreneur Alice Gbelia was looking for art to decorate her home – she wanted specifically art that referenced her African heritage and represented Black Pop Culture. As she couldn’t find a website that offered what she was looking for, she decided to create a platform that represented and offered art and designs by Black artists. And thus Ayok’a – meaning welcome in Alice’s local language in Ivory Coast – was born end of 2017. “The black community is full of talent. I’ve made it a mission to help shine a light on this talent.” Ayok’a is not…
Ghana players celebrate, Andre Ayew (c ) during the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Ghana and Zimbabwe at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium, Cape Coast, Ghana on 09 October 2021 © Christian Thompson / Sports Inc Ghana players Daniel Amartey ((far left), Andre Ayew (2nd left), Thomas Partey (2nd right) and Mohammed Kudus (far right) during the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier between Ghana and Zimbabwe. /Christian Thompson / Sports Inc via CFP) Ghana’s Black Stars will be hoping to replicate their first-leg result against Zimbabwe when they face the Southern Africans later on Monday, with focus solely on boosting…
Zimbabwe is now more likely to lead the Pan African Parliament (PAP) after the African Union Commission has thrown its weight behind the principle of rotation for the position of Parliamentary President which has been occupied by Western and Northern African countries since the inception of the continental body in 2004. Chiefs Council President Senator Chief Fortune Charumbira was nominated by the PAP Southern Africa caucus as its candidate, but elections were aborted in May this year over disagreements on whether or not candidates from Northern and Western African countries were eligible given that they had occupied the office before.…
Issued on: 10/10/2021 – 17:07 For more than 40 years Julienne Lusenge has been working tirelessly to help victims of wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her courage and efforts to expose perpetrators and bring them to justice were finally rewarded at a special ceremony on the small island of San Lazzaro of the Armenians in the Venice lagoon on Saturday evening when she was declared the winner of the one million dollars Aurora Prize. She broke down in tears but said she was so very happy and could not believe she would finally be able to…
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Issued on: 10/10/2021 – 16:27 More than 5,000 Tunisians rallied on Sunday against a presidential power grab in the only democracy to have emerged from the Arab Spring uprisings a decade ago. Despite checkpoints and security screening of protesters, it was the biggest in a series of Sunday rallies in central Tunis both pro and against the actions of President Kais Saied.On July 25, after months of political stalemate, Saied sacked the prime minister, suspended parliament and granted himself judicial powers, a move he followed up in September with measures that effectively allow the president to rule by decree.A police…
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s family, the political dynasty that has dominated Kenyan politics since independence, for many years secretly owned a web of offshore companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands according to a new leak of documents known as the Pandora Papers. The Kenyattas’ offshore secrets were discovered among almost 12 million documents, largely made up of administrative paperwork from the archives of 14 law firms and agencies that specialize in offshore company formations. Other world leaders found in the files include the King of Jordan, the prime minister of the Czech Republic Andrej Babiš and Gabon’s President Ali…
Abdulrazak Gurnah was in the kitchen of his Canterbury home making a cup of tea on Thursday when he received the call telling him he had won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 72-year-old retired professor, who keeps his greying beard neatly clipped and his opinions mostly understated, pronounced himself flabbergasted, if delighted, saying he had not the slightest inkling that he was even being considered. “I wouldn’t have picked me,” he told a BBC radio interviewer that evening.It was an appropriately English diffidence for a man born in Zanzibar in 1948, but who has spent the better part…