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Residents of South Africa’s Gauteng Province are decrying on the poor state of the roads despite accounting for the seventh biggest GDP in the Southern African country. It is estimated that the province has well over twenty-one thousand potholes according to the state. Gauteng, also known as South Africa’s national flower is peppered across most of the bi-ways of the… Read More

The United Nations announced Thursday it has released $65 million for humanitarian aid in Ethiopia, including $40 million for the Tigray region where a military operation launched in November has escalated into a war in which widespread atrocities are reported and thousands have been killed. The U.N. humanitarian office said the remaining $25 million will fund aid operations in the… Read More

South Africa’s President Ramaphosa vowed to root out corruption at an Iftar dinner on Thursday in Cape Town with business leaders and the clergy. Ramaphosa’s comments come amid a political turning point this week after the ruling party suspended its secretary-general, Elias Magashule, over graft charges. But a defiant Magashule, who is the first top party official to be temporarily… Read More

Five years ago, Teungueth FC was only a small club in the fourth division. Today, it is one of the giants of Senegalese football. If not for the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team would most probably have been crowned the champions last year. The club from the sensitive urban zones of Dakar nevertheless made history this season as… Read More

Liverpool and Egypt forward Mohamed Salah won the Laureus Athlete Advocate of the Year Award in Seville, Spain on Thursday. The awards, which were hosted in Seville but staged in a digital format amid coronavirus and travel restrictions, highlighted professional sports people who used their position to make a powerful impact on societal issues over the last 12 months. “I… Read More

The Ethiopian parliament on Thursday endorsed a recent cabinet decision to classify the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has long dominated Ethiopian politics and until recently ruled the Tigray region, as a terrorist organization. The resolution, which was unanimously passed by ruling party MPs, also includes the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), an armed group active in the Oromia and… Read More

French boxer Souleymane Cissokho trains in California ahead of a big boxing night in Arlington, Texas, where he will face Great Britain’s Kieron Conway. Cissokho hopes to reach higher rankings in the light-middleweight category, telling AFP, “I don’t forget that my goal is to become a world champion. So I need to box, I need to get belts. This is… Read More

Can covid growth in e-commerce be sustained? The African digital economy is expected to continue its exponential growth trend, according to the Oxford Business group. The pandemic led to widespread growth in e-commerce in sub-Saharan Africa. This growth offering has changed consumer habits. The coronavirus pandemic triggered an e-commerce boom in sub-Saharan Africa, alongside the rest of the world. With… Read More

The protagonists of “Zero” hope the series — which focuses on second-generation Black Italians and is based on a novel by the son of Angolan immigrants — will help accelerate public acceptance that Italy has become a multicultural nation. “I always say that Italy is a country tied to traditions, more than racist,” says Antonio Dikele Distefano, who co-wrote the… Read More

Somalia on Thursday announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Kenya after mediation by Qatar, state media said. Somalia cut ties with Kenya in December 15, 2020 after accusing Nairobi of interference in its internal affairs. “The two governments agree to keep friendly relations between the two countries on the basis of principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial… Read More