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Thierry Vircoulon, coordinator of the Observatory of Southern and Central Africa at Ifri joined Africanews journalist, Bridget Ugwe on set to weigh-in on the assassination of Italian ambassador in the DRC, Luca Attanasio last Monday February, 22nd. Today, concerns have been raised, in particular on the side of the Congolese opposition, that denounced an incapacity of the United Nations to… Read More

At first glance, the round black pellets could easily be mistaken for animal dung. But these hardy little balls contain acacia seeds that are helping regrow Kenya’s depleted forests. In a tranche of razed forest bordering the Masai Mara wildlife reserve, a team of rangers scatter generous handfuls of “seedballs” around the bald clearing to give nature a fighting chance… Read More

The first shots of coronavirus vaccines from the COVAX programme were given to people in the Ivory Coast on Monday. Jabs were being given to health workers, teachers and members of the armed forces at the Treichville Sports Palace in the commercial capital, Abidjan, where 95% of the country’s cases have been recorded, according to the health ministry. The COVAX… Read More

The Massai, a noble ethnic group whose pastoral communities are mainly found in East Africa — in Kenya and Tanzania, continue to honour their cultural traditions. Such as the final rite of passage to transition from a warrior into an elder for a Maasai man who has already lived through the phase from boy through to warrior. “There are three… Read More

Hollywood’s Angelina Jolie and Britain’s iconic wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, a keen artist who took inspiration from the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, are combining for a March 1 date at Christie’s auction house in London. “The Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque”, an oil painting Churchill produced during a World War II visit, is tipped to fetch between £1.5… Read More

Historic Moment for African Female Leaders Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman and first African to assume the position of Director-General of the World Trade Organization arrived Monday at the Geneva headquarters for her first day in office after her official appointment on February 15 — in spite of the delay attributed to the former US President Trump blocking her nomination.… Read More

Brutal jihadist violence forced them to flee their homes, but now hunger has driven some in Mozambique to risk their lives by sneaking back to their old residences to gather food — or even resume farming. Nearly 670,000 people have been displaced by an extremist insurgency that has raged for three years in northern Mozambique. Some have moved in with… Read More

Congolese investigators arrived in Goma on Thursday to try to clarify the circumstances in which the Italian ambassador, his guard – a carabinieri – and a driver working for the World Food Program were killed earlier this week. The authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo also sent a delegation to the region to meet with members of the United… Read More

Libya’s newly-elected prime minister failed to name members of his Cabinet ahead of an expected deadline Thursday, raising questions over whether his transitional government can unite Libya’s factions. Prime Minister-designate Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah was set to announce his much-anticipated Cabinet in a news conference from the capital, Tripoli, and send it to Libya’s House of Representatives for approval. Instead,… Read More

Macky Sets an Example for Senegal Senegalese President Macky Sall in a nationally televised ceremony on Thursday at the presidential palace in Dakar was administered a COVID-19 vaccine — urging citizens to follow his example and get their own coronavirus shots as more vaccines arrive in the country. Macky addressed the nations: “There have been a lot of theories about… Read More