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Last updated: 1 hour ago France’s basketball, volleyball and handball players celebrate their Tokyo 2020 Olympic medals in Paris, surrounded by hundreds of fans. The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, the president of Paris 2024 Tony Estanguet and the president of the French Olympic Committee Brigitte Henriques were also present to congratulate the medallists. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Last updated: 7 minutes ago The Bolivian government held a ceremony in the presence of Indigenous authorities to rename a mummified Inca girl, honouring them during the celebration of the World’s Indigenous People’s Day on Monday. The Inca girl is believed to live among the Pacajes Aymara Indigenous between 1100 and 1450 A.D. Her remains were named “Saphi,” an Aymara… Read More

Morocco is looking to scale up Covid-19 vaccinations by going digital. At a vaccination centre in Errhma near Casablanca, people only have to scan a QR code using their mobile phone or tablet to get vaccinated. Dubbed the smart Vaccinodrome by local media, the site aims to inoculate between 3,000-4,000 people a day. “It is a project to accelerate the… Read More

There is a breath of fresh air in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After not receiving any significant foreign economic support for over nine years, the country has just finalised a new economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This total package of 1.52 billion dollars offers a change of course welcomed by Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde… Read More

27 year old Joel Shindani, a Congolese student had been arrested Sunday August 1 by the Indian police for alleged possession of an illegal drug. He would later die in mysterious circumstances a day later. On Monday, a rights group in the Democratic Republic of Congo called The Congolese national movement MNC led a protest to demand explanations from the… Read More

Amidst a landscape of rice fields in the Nile Delta, the farmers of Al-Qaramous have relied on papyrus for decades. Today, they are struggling to save their livelihood threatened by the scarcity of tourists. In the 1970s, the farmers of this village, located 80 kilometers northeast of Cairo, reappropriated age-old agricultural and craft techniques that had almost disappeared. Since then,… Read More

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned Monday that already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if not centuries. This is already taking its toll on Malawi ‘s second largest lake, Lake Chilwa. Thousands of people in Malawi depend on the country’s second largest lake, Lake Chilwa, to make a… Read More

Soaring food prices and economic hardship could sway this week’s tightly-contested Zambian presidential vote in favour of the opposition, as citizens grapple with the fallout from rampant financial mismanagement. President Edgar Lungu, who is vying for re-election in the August 12 poll, stands accused of borrowing unsustainably, to splurge on infrastructure projects. The copper-rich southern African nation last year became… Read More

A report by a United Nations scientific panel, released on Monday said the world’s climate was changing at ‘unprecedented’ levels adding that humans are to blame. The report warned of more extreme weather in the coming years. It said humanity will suffer the consequences of rising sea levels and melting Arctic ice, before urging drastic cuts to emissions in order… Read More

Jennifer Hudson, an Oscar-winning actress and singer, wowed at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday for the premiere of her new film, Respect, a biography of Aretha Franklin’s life and career. “She had a unique capacity to interpret her suffering for an audience of millions,” screenwriter Tracey Scott Wilson recalls of the legendary singer: “I think the… Read More