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Tanzania’s late president John Magufuli was laid to rest Friday in his ancestral village in the country’s northwest after his sudden death last week from an illness shrouded in mystery. Nicknamed the “Bulldozer” for his leadership style, Magufuli was buried in Chato after nearly a week being mourned by crowds in various cities as his casket was moved around the… Read More

An attempt failed to re-float a giant container ship, the Ever Given, from the Suez Canal on Friday as the vessel has blocked one of the world’s busiest waterways. Africanews takes a look at how it happened and what’s next. How did it happen? The 400-meter-long, more than 220,000-ton vessel deviated from course on Tuesday amid strong gusts of wind… Read More

One year after its first 5G trial, Safaricom, the leading Kenyan telecom operator, is introducing an ultra high-speed broadband to the market. This new service, they say would target the country’s major cities, and later expand to other parts of the country over the next 12 months. “During Covid we have seen alot of customers wanting to work from home,… Read More

Farmers around the quiet tropical town of Tzaneen are battling a scourge of avocado theft driven by booming global demand for the nutrient-rich fruit. Thousands of tonnes of avocados have been stolen over the past five years, according to the South African Subtropical Growers’ Association. The average annual losses in South Africa, one of the continent’s top avocado producers, is… Read More

“I do think that humanity is moving forward even when it looks like we’re moving backwards. If you take a step back and look at the bigger picture, we are progressing.” For Hilde Ousland Vandeskog, PhD candidate at Oslo University, and gender researcher from Norway, one of the most egalitarian countries in Europe, achieving gender justice needs to be a… Read More

With each passing day, the closed Suez Canal in Egypt is costing an estimated 9 billion dollars’ worth of goods that should be passing through the water way, according to famed shipping journal, Llyod’s List. The blockade is causing disruption in the flow of cargo traffic in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Every day, 70 ships, carrying a total… Read More

The body of Tanzania’s late President John Pombe Magufuli was on Friday moved to his ancestral home of Chato in the country’s northwest for public viewing and burial. Chato, Geita and neighbouring residents are paying their last respects to him at the Magufuli Stadium, as has been the norm all week. His body was moved through different towns in Tanzania… Read More

It’s Africa’s lesser known elephant. Hidden deep in the jungle, the Forest elephants remain no less in danger. In their latest updated “Red List”, which regroupes all at risk species, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature labled them as ‘critically endangered’. Previously, elephants on the continent were assessed as a single species considered vulnerable, but not endangered. “Today’s… Read More

Record seven-time champions Egypt and minnows Comoros and the Gambia were among five teams who qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday, and Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea could join them later. Comoros made history and will make their first appearance at the games when they play in the tournament in Cameroon in 2022. Egypt drew 1-1 with 10-man… Read More

Congolese opposition leader Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas’s death was related to a Covid-19 infection. An autopsy conducted by medical teams in Paris, France confirmed the opposition figure’s lungs were in a very weak state, leading to a cardiorespiratory failure. “The autopsy carried out on March 23, 2021, concluded in cardio-respiratory failure due to severe bilateral diffuse pneumonia compatible with the… Read More