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Every week, Serbian sculptor Nikola Macura wanders through a military junkyard in search of discarded rifles, helmets and missiles which he brings back to his studio and turns into musical instruments. Hailing from the Balkans, a region that still bears scars from the 1990s wars unravelled Yugoslavia, the 42-year-old is trying to transform these forces of destruction into vessels of… Read More

Black Girl Magic Was in Soulful Abundance! One of the biggest sporting traditions of the United States took place yesterday: the Super Bowl LV 2021 where a US football game was played to determine the champion of the country’s National Football League for the 2020 NFL season. The event was held in Tampa, Florida in the south of the country.… Read More

A Powerful African Voice Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda and also the former Chairperson of the African Union (2018-2019) has just called out Europe and North Africa for hoarding vaccines i.e. bulk-buying excess doses directly from manufacturers which limits supply and secures better deals to the detriment of governments with less purchasing clout. During the virtual 2021 World Economic… Read More

The leader of one of the criminal groups behind the abduction of more than 300 of the Kankara boys in Noth-western Nigeria has surrendered to authorities in exchange for an amnesty agreement. Zamfara state government said Awwalun Daudawa and six other members of the armed group had handed over their weapons, swearing on the Holy Quran not to return to… Read More

Islamist attacks in Mozambique’s remote north have become less frequent and violent in recent weeks, a trend that analysts attribute in part to scaled-up counter-insurgency tactics. Shadowy jihadists affiliated to the so-called Islamic State group have wreaked havoc in the gas-rich but impoverished Cabo Delgado province since 2017. Their attacks rocketed last year, triggering a humanitarian crisis akin to the… Read More

The struggle over Haiti’s presidency intensified Monday as opposition politicians named their own leader of the country in an effort to drive out President Jovenel Moise, whose term they say has expired. The smoldering political crisis flared up Sunday, when officials claimed they had foiled an attempt to murder the president and overthrow the government in a coup. Moise has… Read More

Hundreds of migrants rescued off the Libyan coast in the past few days have arrived in Italy, where they disembarked on Monday. The NGO SOS Mediterranee said the 422 migrants were rescued by their ship, Ocean Viking, during several search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea between February the 4th and 5th. The NGO said a small number of… Read More

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced Monday a new cabinet bringing in seven ex-rebel chiefs as ministers, following a peace deal in October aimed to end decades of war. Veteran rebel leader and economist Gibril Ibrahim, of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) – which played a major role in the Darfur conflict – was appointed as Sudan’s new finance… Read More

DR Congo on Sunday announced a “resurgence” of Ebola in its troubled east after a woman died of the disease, just three months after authorities declared the end of the country’s latest outbreak. The World Health Organization (WHO) said it had dispatched a team of epidemiologists to the scene of the latest death to investigate. The victim was married to… Read More

The United Nations’ food agency has said it has agreed to a deal with Ethiopia to expand access for aid workers and “scale up” operations in the war-hit Tigray region. UN officials have repeatedly complained about the lack of humanitarian access to the northern region as fears grow of a humanitarian disaster- especially starvation The government and the WFP “have… Read More