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Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun has premiered his latest movie att the Cannes Film Festival. “Lingui, The Sacred Bonds” is set in N’djamena – the capital of Chad – and follows Amina and her daughter Maria who on the outskirts of society because Amina is a single mother. Actors Achouackh Abakar Souleymane and Rihane Khalil Alio portray the mother and daughter.… Read More

Thousands at memorial for Nigerian televangelist T.B. Joshua Thousands of Nigerians have been paying their last respects this week to Temitope Balogun Joshua, one of Africa’s most popular televangelists, known as T.B. Joshua. The controversial Nigerian-born pastor died about a month ago at the age of 57. A memorial service was held for him Thursday at the auditorium of the… Read More

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been confirmed to be in jail at the Estcourt Correctional Centre. The embattled former president was brought to the fairly new correctional facility to start his 15-month sentence in the early hours of Thursday morning. Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola told journalists that he had seen Zuma. “I have seen… Read More

A huge rough diamond, an impressive stone with a silvery sheen that fits in the palm of a hand, was discovered in June in Botswana, the Canadian company Lucara said Wednesday. The 1,174-carat gem, discovered on June 12, steals third place on the podium of the world’s largest diamonds from another exceptional stone found a few days earlier, on June… Read More

Armed attackers known as bandits have killed 18 people in a raid on a village in northwest Nigeria’s Katsina state, police told AFP Wednesday. State police spokesman Gambo Isah said that a large group of assailants arrived in the village of Tsauwa on motorbikes late Monday, gunning down villagers and looting homes before burning them. “The bandits killed 18 people… Read More

“President Zuma has decided to comply with the incarceration order. He is on his way to hand himself into a Correctional Services Facility in KZN (KwaZulu-Natal province),” said a tweet posted by the Zuma Foundation. Soon after South Africa’s police confirmed that Zuma was in their custody. Zuma’s imprisonment comes after a week of rising tensions over his sentence. Zuma,… Read More

Egyptian authorities announced the release of , Ever Given, a hulking shipping vessel that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year. Wednesday’s release came a day after an Egyptian court lifted the judicial seizure of the vessel following the Suez Canal Authority’s notification that it reached a settlement with the vessels’ owners and insurers. Officials… Read More

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Haiti is under a state of seige with its borders and main airport closed. The announcement came hours after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated by unknown gunmen at his private residence in Pelerin, a wealthy suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Prime Minister Claude Joseph says he is now in charge of the country and has imposed martial law. “I have… Read More

The UAE’s Nora al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants as the Gulf nation looks to the stars. The 28-year-old mechanical engineer from Sharjah — one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE — has dreamt about space since she was a girl,… Read More