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Africa’s economic growth to outpace global forecast in 2023-2024

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Africa is set to outperform the rest of the world in economic growth over the next two years, with real gross domestic product (GDP) averaging around 4% in 2023 and 2024. This is higher than projected global averages of 2.7% and 3.2%, the African Development Bank Group said in Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook report for the region, released in… Read More
Africa Central Africa World 

DR Congo: 145 passengers missing in boat disaster

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At least 145 passengers are reported missing after a boat with goods and animals sank in a river in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Local authorities said that about 55 people survived the disaster which happened on Tuesday night. The boat which was heading for neighbouring Republic of Congo capsized on the Lulonga River near the town of… Read More
Pacific 

Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO

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The agency announced on Thursday that it was dedicating the International Day of Education on 24 January, to the country’s women and girls.  “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said Director-General Audrey Azoulay.   “The international community has the responsibility to ensure… Read More
Europe 

Northern Ireland: UK ‘immunity’ legislation could hamper victims’ rights, warns Türk

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The High Commissioner for Human Rights acknowledged on Thursday that addressing the violent legacy of intercommunal relations in Northern Ireland from the 1960s to the 1990s was “hugely complex and sensitive”. ‘Conditional immunity’ But he warned against plans to give conditional immunity from investigation and prosecution to those accused of serious human rights violations and other international crimes, other than sexual offences.… Read More
Africa Senegal West Africa World 

Senegal: Opposition leader Sonko to face rape trial

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The opposition leader in Senegal, Ousmane Sonko is to face trial on charges of rape, an investigating judge has said. The case has now been referred to Senegal’s criminal chamber for trial. Sonko is also facing trial for making death threats to a beauty salon employee in 2021. Sonko is accused of sexually assaulting the woman who worked in a… Read More
Africa Featured World 

Plants on Lunar Soil

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Scientists have for the first-time grown plants on lunar surface material known as regolith which had been collected 50 years before by Apollo astronauts. Researchers used three of those samples to experiment. This comes just at the beginning of the Artemis era and the return of astronauts to the moon. During the research, scientists grew Arabidopsis thaliana, a plant in… Read More
Europe 

UN aims to boost aid to frontline areas of Ukraine; Black Sea grain exports near 18 million tonnes

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The UN humanitarian coordination office, OCHA, said in a press release that a seven-truck convoy had reached Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region – just five kilometres from the Russian border. “This community has been heavily impacted by months of hostilities and the 4,500 people who remain there depend on humanitarian aid to meet their needs.” The convoy supplied hygiene kits,… Read More
Pacific 

Sri Lanka must ensure compensation for victims of 2019 terrorist attacks

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Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the former President and three other senior officials to compensate the families of the victims because they had failed to prevent the tragedy.  More than 270 people were killed in the series of explosions at churches and hotels across the island nation.  A step forward  OHCHR urged Sri Lanka to provide full reparations to… Read More
Africa Gambia West Africa World 

Gambia: Vice President Badara Alieu Joof is dead

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The Gambia’s Vice-President Badara Alieu Joof has been reported dead during his travel to India. His boss, President Adama Barrow announced his death in a statement indicating that his vice died after a short illness. Although the president didn’t mention whether Mr Joof was seeking medical attention while in India, local media reported that he was absent from the public for… Read More
Africa Business World 

Opinion: United States and Africa increase engagement on AfCFTA

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There was more good news for the successful implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement in December 2022, when a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the United States (US) Trade Representative and the AfCFTA Secretariat at the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit (Summit) in Washington DC. The MoU covers expanded engagement between the two regions and intends… Read More
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