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Artists and entertainers gathered Thursday in Miami, Florida United States for the Latin American Music Awards — to celebrate a hopeful revival of the music industry hit hard by the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. 2019 elected Miss Universe South African beauty Zozibini Tunzi who has seen much of her reign be hampered by lockdown measures last year was in high spirits.… Read More

As many as 65,000 people have fled violence in the northeastern Nigerian town of Damasak, the United Nations said on Friday. The so-called Islamic State West Africa Province group unleashed a series of attacks in Borno state, looting and burning homes, warehouses of humanitarian agencies, a police station, a clinic and also a UNHCR facility. “Up to 80 percent of… Read More

Marathon world record holder Eliud Kipchoge has told SNTV that he still can perform at the highest level after his six-year unbeaten run ended in dramatic fashion with a career-low 8th-place finish at last year’s London marathon. The 36-year-old Kenyan – who ran the world’s first sub-two-hour marathon at an unofficial event in Vienna in 2019 — was speaking ahead… Read More

Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso has taken the oath of office for another term, extending his 36-year accumulated rule. The 77-year-old won 88.4 percent of the vote in the March 21 election, boycotted by the main opposition. Sassou Nguesso was sworn in the capital Brazzaville on Friday. He begins a new five-year term, one with a mighty challenge: to curb… Read More

Cuba is preparing to turn the page on the wake of the revolution 60 years ago as the Castro dynasty will end next Monday as Raul steps down as head of the Party. City murals still read that Fidel and Raul are eternal members of the Communist Party. Not knowing who Fidel Castro was and no idea of communism, Rigoberto… Read More

On a calm autumn afternoon, newborn twins Maya and Paula lay peacefully on a mattress at a Johannesburg house, blissfully taking turns to bottle-feed and nap, oblivious of the uncertainty over their citizenship status. They are daughters of a Namibian-Mexican gay couple, and the Namibian authorities have dragged their feet on issuing documents for the girls born to a South… Read More

Relief for some in the Central African Republic after some 2,500 families in Grimari, a town hit by the violence that erupted after December’s presidential election received food supplies this week from the International Red Cross. Thousands of residents were forced to escape into the bush while others fled to other cities in January when rebels and armed forces fought… Read More

Arsenal made it through to semifinal in the Europa League competition. The Gunners crushed the Slavia Prague from the Czech Republic last Thursday to qualify for the last four of the competition. Arsenal responded to having an early goal by Emile Smith Rowe ruled out for offside by VAR by scoring three times in quick succession, first though Nicolas Pepe… Read More

The European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States have formally concluded negotiations on the new partnership agreement. The document is not due to be signed until the second half of this year, but the framework for political, economic and sectorial cooperation over the next two decades has already been documented. “The new agreement modernises and deepens… Read More

Former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur said on Wednesday that in 1994 France avoided becoming an “acolyte” of the Rwandan Hutu genocidal government by preventing a French military operation in Kigali, which he said was called for by the entourage of Socialist President François Mitterrand. In the spring of 1994, when the Tutsi genocide was underway in Rwanda, “all those… Read More