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Moussa Marega helped keep Porto’s hopes of winning the Portuguese championship alive by scoring against Vitoria Guimaraes on Thursday night. The Malian latched on to a long boss, sprinting past Vitoria defenders to score the only goal of the match four minutes after the beginning of the second half. With this win, Porto regained two points on table leaders Sporting,… Read More

The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in uniform. Mark Lowcock told a closed Security Council meeting that the U.N. knows that 4.5 million of Tigray’s nearly 6… Read More

Africanews is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. Our journalist Pascale-Mahé Keingna interviewed Haweya Mohammed, who is the founder, alongside Amine Youssouf, of the marketplace specialized in tech, Afrobytes, an African innovation center based in Paris that seeks to reenchant the Africa brand. Five years ago, innovation centers were already present on the continent, notably in Ghana and Kenya. One… Read More

Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum touched down in the Chadian capital N’Djamena on Thursday, a day before the funeral of the late Chadian president Idriss Déby. Déby died after sustaining injuries on the front lines against rebels, the army said Tuesday. The late Chadian President’s funeral ceremony is slated for April 23, at the Place de la Nation in the capital.… Read More

Euronews has come to see the first museum to be built in Angola, the Dundo Museum. It was built in 1936 by the former diamond company Diamang, now ENDIAMA, and is located in the capital of Lunda Norte, the city of Dundo.” In this museum is a whole collection that tells the collective memory of the entire region of eastern… Read More

Developers of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine say they signed a deal with a leading Egyptian pharmaceutical company to manufacture more than 40 million doses annually in Cairo. The Russian Direct Investment Fund, along with Egypt’s Minapharm and its Berlin-based subsidiary, issued a joint press release saying the technology transfer will begin immediately. It expects the rollout of the Sputnik V… Read More

A renowned Algerian scholar on Islam was on Thursday handed a three-year jail time for offending Islam. Said Djabelkhir has pledged to appeal the ruling and fight for freedom of thought as he was released on bail. “The verdict I heard from the lawyer, was that I have been sentenced to three years in prison and fifty thousand (Algerian) dinars… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago George Floyd’s former roommate, Alvin Manago, pays tribute to his friend in Minneapolis one day after the conviction of Derek Chauvin. “I was happy and sad at the same time because, you know, I lost my friend, you know, my roommate”, he tells AFP, adding that the verdict will be “real positive as far as… Read More

Ecological issues are threatening livelihoods in central Mali. This comes as indigenes contend with jihadists and armed groups. In the inner Niger delta, overfishing has depleted stocks. The Sahara Desert is also encroaching on the green floodplains, and a deeply worrying situation for fisherfolks. “The production has gone down and down. For example, in 2017, we had 35,000 tonnes. In… Read More

Bare patches of land are a common sight in the forests of Uganda. Forest cover here has depleted from 24 percent to just 8 percent since the 1990s. It’s a problem all over the world, according to Global Forest Watch, which claims more than 12 million hectares of tree cover in the tropics was lost in 2020 alone And so… Read More