Tag: Africaglobalvillage

Before clicking the Instagram video, the sight intrigued most. Sarah Palafox, a Black woman, held an iPhone while standing in front of mariachis. When users turned on the volume, they heard a woman belting out a heartbreak interpretation of Jenni Rivera’s “Que Me Vas A Dar” in perfect Spanish of Mexico’s Zacatecas. Instagram users said the short clip made them… Read More

Mali and Spain are battling for the attention of Wolves winger Adama Traore. Mali were the first to call him up before Spain manager Luis Enrique included Traore in his selection. The 24-year-old was born in Barcelona to Malian parents. “Look, with Adama I am going to touch wood because it is the third time that I call him up… Read More

The president of the Union for Progress and Change (UPC), Burkina Faso’s main opposition party, Zephirin Diabré, and former Prime Minister Isaac Zida, filed their candidacies for the November 22 presidential election with the National Electoral Commission (Ceni) on Friday. In the 2015 elections, Diabré, 61 years old, came second with 29.65% of the votes, defeated by current President Roch… Read More

The United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper signed a 10-year military cooperation deal in Rabat, Morocco on Friday — two days after signing a similar deal in Tunisia as he made his final stop on a North African tour aimed at strengthening the fight against Islamist extremists in war-torn Libya and the Sahel-Sahara region. Nasser Bourita, Morocco’s Foreign Minister,… Read More

A Hurt World Champion Five-time world champion and three-time Olympic gold medalist, Kenenisa Bekele, announced in a video on social media Friday that he will no longer be competing in the highly anticipated London Marathon on Sunday that would have seen him face Kenyan icon and marathon world record-holder Eliud Kipchoge. An event that industry officials had billed as an… Read More

Zimbabwean street vendor Memory Chauke did not get very far when she hopped over a fence into neighbouring South Africa on the first day its borders reopened after a six-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. South African patrol guards had anticipated that Zimbabweans would resume illegal crossings into the country to buy goods as soon as travel restrictions were… Read More

Zimbabwean street vendor Memory Chauke did not get very far when she hopped over a fence into neighbouring South Africa on the first day its borders reopened after a six-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. South African patrol guards had anticipated that Zimbabweans would resume illegal crossings into the country to buy goods as soon as travel restrictions were… Read More

A Running Legacy 225 kilometres south of Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, lies Bekoji — a town renowned for producing running stars who have collectively brought home 18 Olympic medals to date. Pandemic Pause However, recent months saw the town’s eucalyptus forests — typically transformed into a training ground for aspiring running, extremely bare after the onset of the Covid-19… Read More

Ivory Coast’s presidential election is under a month away but it just got even tenser after the second vice-president of the CEI, Alain Dogou and the representative of the opposition, Yapi Yapo Daudet, withdrew from the independent electoral commission. They’ve called for the October 31 vote to be postponed until the commission is reformed. It marks a blow for the… Read More

Mali’s junta has removed a major obstacle to the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions. On Thursday it took out a major prerogative devolved to their transition leader who is supposed to bring civilians back to power in the country. The soldiers who overthrew President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta on August 18 have renounced that Colonel Assimi Goïta, can replace the civilian president… Read More