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Last updated: 9 hours ago A six-foot statue of George Floyd, the Black man killed by a white policeman in Minneapolis in May 2020, is unveiled in Brooklyn as part of Juneteenth celebrations in New York.  The 800-pound bust, created by American sculptor Chris Carnabuci from Confront ART, will be displayed at Flatbush Junction for several weeks before moving to… Read More

West African states said on Saturday they will carry on monitoring events in Mali following a coup before lifting its suspension from a regional bloc. Bamako has announced a new civilian government and promised to adhere to a roadmap to elections early next year, after the coup in May led by Colonel Assimi Goita. He had already led a coup… Read More

Last updated: 39 minutes ago Activists set 500 red roses on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on Sunday, commemorating the deaths of 500,000 Brazilians from COVID-19 as Brazil passed the devastating milestone. The symbolic display was also intended as a rebuke to President Jair Bolsonaro’s attempt to minimize the disease. The demonstration on the iconic beach was organised by Rio… Read More

Last updated: 2 minutes ago Around 300 vintage vehicles from Estonia, Latvia and Finland, produced between 1930 and the 1980s, take part in a 1000-kilometre retro rally across Estonia.  The five-day rally begins in Paide, a small town in the centre of the country, and the participants are making their first stop in Narva, on the Estonian-Russian border. More about… Read More

Ethiopia votes Monday in highly anticipated parliamentary elections as the country, Africa’s second-most populous is rocked by violence, particularly in the Tigray region. When he came to power in 2018, which brought a wind of hope and unity to this Horn of Africa country with more than 80 ethnicities, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to hold the most democratic elections… Read More

The World Health Organization on Saturday officially announced the end of Guinea’s second Ebola outbreak which was declared on February 14. “I have the honour of declaring the end of Ebola” in Guinea, WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo said at a ceremony in the southeastern Nzerekore region where the disease surfaced at the end of January. Health Minister Remy Lamah added:… Read More

West African leaders present at a summit in Ghana on Saturday agreed a new road map to launch a single currency in 2027. The bloc had planned to launch a common currency this year but postponed the plan due to challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. ECOWAS Commission President Jean-Claude Kassi Brou said the pandemic had upset plans to implement… Read More

Last updated: 13 hours ago Move over Paul the Octopus, Thailand has a new claimant to the football forecasting crown: Boy the “psychic” lion, who has so far correctly called four Euro 2020 matches. Boy, a five-year-old white lion who lives at a zoo in northeast Thailand, makes his predictions by grabbing meat marked with national flags from a wire… Read More

Last updated: 18/06 – 20:57 Palestinians protested after Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem and briefly clashed with Israeli police, leaving three demonstrators injured. A series of far more violent clashes at the site in April and May helped ignite last month’s 11-day Gaza war. The site is the third holiest in Islam and the holiest for… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago Thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox believers dressed in white celebrate the anniversary of Saint Michael in Bahir Dar, the capital city of the Amhara region, the second-largest, in northern Ethiopia.  Saint Michael is one of the major saints in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, a centuries-old faith at the heart of an ancient and proud civilisation that has… Read More