Issued on: 03/09/2021 – 15:02 This week, Africa Calling podcast brings you feature reports from our correspondents on the African continent. From atop Mt. Mulanje, Malawi, a group led by a jazz musician is calling on Malawians to protect the mountain’s flora and fauna. Kenya’s pastoralists are being encouraged to sign up for national healthcare by exchanging a goat for medical care. In Cameroon, we take a look at the water crisis in Buea, the anglophone South-West region. This week’s podcast went to the top of Mount Mulanje in Malawi, as correspondent Charles Pensulo speaks to people trekking to the…
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Having watched a woman and her baby die needlessly after being refused admission to a hospital over a lack of money, Liyatu Ayuba wanted to never let it happen again.The 62-year-old is one of Nigeria’s nearly 3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) – driven out of their homes by the violence of the Boko Haram Islamist militants. Ayuba fled Gwoza in the north-eastern state of Borno in 2011 with her family. After her husband was killed by Boko Haram and her teenage son badly wounded, she went to the makeshift Durumi 1 IDP camp, in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, where about…
Issued on: 03/09/2021 – 15:48 The Great Green Wall was officially launched by the African Union in 2007. It aims to fight desertification by creating a huge strip of vegetation across Africa, from Dakar in the west to Djibouti in the east. The Wall would be eventually more than 8,000 kilometres long, crossing 11 African countries. Since 2007, the project has evolved, with the goal of creating millions of jobs. But critics say progress has stalled. Our correspondents report from Senegal and Nigeria. The UN status report released in September 2020 could hardly be called encouraging. Barely 4 percent of the Great Green Wall’s…
Africa updatesSign up to myFT Daily Digest to be the first to know about Africa news. Just as Kabul was about to fall this month, Iyad ag Ghaly, the grizzled Malian leader of al-Qaeda affiliate Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, took to the airwaves. Congratulating the Taliban on the imminent expulsion of foreign infidels, he foresaw victory too in the Sahel, a vast stretch of semi-arid land that fringes the Sahara desert. Here, a mishmash of armed groups loosely affiliated with al-Qaeda and Islamic State have carried out increasingly frequent and deadly attacks on military and civilian targets in an expanding…
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After lighting up the Paralympics once again, when winning the men’s 200m T61 category, South Africa’s golden boy Ntando Mahlangu declared that dreams can indeed come true. After an earlier success in the long jump, the 19-year-old becomes only the second South African to win at least two individual golds at a single Paralympics. On Friday in Tokyo, the world record holder sprinted home ahead of Great Britain’s Richard Whitehead and Germany’s Ali Lacin. “Two Paralympics gold medals was the dream coming here – a dream does come true in the end,” Mahlangu said. “I came here not even expecting…
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The arrangement was reversed in part due to interventions from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and French President Emmanuel Macron, Masiyiwa said in a Thursday press briefing.Masiyiwa said Europe’s von der Leyen also committed to sending the J&J vaccines, which were packaged by J&J’s South African partner company Aspen, back to African nations.”All the vaccines produced at Aspen will stay in Africa and will be distributed to Africa,” Masiyiwa said. “All vaccines from that facility are under the control now of the South African government, which has committed that those vaccines will go…
Environment30 August 2021, 2:16 pm. 1 minute Democratic Republic of Congo’s government is reviewing its $6 billion “infrastructure-for-minerals” deal with Chinese investors as part of a broader examination of mining contracts, Finance Minister Nicolas Kazadi told Reuters. President Felix Tshisekedi said in May that some mining contracts could be reviewed because of concerns they are not sufficiently benefiting Congo, which is the world’s largest producer of cobalt and Africa’s leading miner of copper. His government announced last month it had formed a commission to reassess the reserves and resources at China Molybdenum’s massive Tenke Fungurume copper and cobalt mine in order…