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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

Assan Ag Midal, a young nigerien with a master’s degree in political science who gave up his job as a civil servant to devote himself to what has become his passion, handicraft. A skill that he embraced by chance. Assan Ag Midal decided to recycle used objects, pallets, tires and cardboard boxes that he collects from garbage dumps. With these… Read More

Senegal’s health services are overwhelmed as a third wave of COVID-19 spreads throughout the country. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Senegal’s National SAMU, the emergency paramedic service, has been in charge of registering all COVID-19 cases and organizing the regulation of patients, emergency doctors and treatment centers. “We have had an influx of calls for respiratory distress. We had… Read More

Hugues-Fabrice Zango, Burkina Faso’s first Olympic medallist has returned home from the Tokyo games. Zango arrived at the Ouagadougou International Airport to a warm welcome from his compatriots Sunday evening. The Burkinabe athlete competed in the men’s triple jump final, during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. It was his nation’s tenth Olympic appearance. “All the people believed in it and… Read More

Thousands of homes have been damaged in Sudan after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, with many streets in the capital Khartoum deep in water, AFP correspondents said Sunday. Heavy rains usually fall in Sudan from June to October, and the country faces severe flooding every year, wrecking properties, infrastructure, and crops. In Atbara, a city in Sudan’s northeast, the official… Read More

The Rwandan military says its forces and Mozambican troops have retaken Mocímboa da Praia, a key port city from Islamist militants in northern Mozambique Mocímboa da Praia located in Cabo Delgado province, was the rebels’ last stronghold and home to one of Africa’s biggest gas fields. The insurgents have not yet commented but the news is seen as a major… Read More

Last updated: 6 hours ago Protests against COVID health pass were held across Europe on Saturday 7 August. In Italy’s capital, hundreds of people protested against the government’s introduction of restrictions on unvaccinated people as Rome tries to slow a rise in Covid-19 infections. The Green Pass, which is an extension of the EU’s digital Covid certificate, is now required… Read More

Last updated: 5 hours ago Families of the victims of last year’s devastating Beirut Port explosion marched through the Lebanese capital’s centre Sunday 8 August, holding pictures of their relatives killed in the blast. The protest was part of their campaign to push for what they see as justice, as the local investigation stalls. The families marched from central Beirut,… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago On Sunday 8 August, a group of around 50 protesters demonstrated outside Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium, chanting “We don’t need the Olympics, nor the Paralympics!” and “Stop the closing ceremony!” as the curtain falls on the biggest sports event since the pandemic. The closing ceremony for the Tokyo 2020 Games began in a nearly empty Olympic… Read More