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After receiving the French president in March last year, Kenya’s leader Uhuru Kenyatta is on a visit to Paris. The President will meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace. Kenyatta who would be accompanied by five ministers is expected to attend a public investment bank conference, and meet with French employers. They will also sign several PPP… Read More

Presbyterian Church caretaker Rhudzani Makuya ties white bows every morning. Each ribbon marks each victim of the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa. On Tuesday he added 188 ribbons, the number of victims who died in South Africa a day earlier as the world counted over one million deaths. Despite several countries in Europe seeing an uptick in cases since the… Read More

Egypt’s Mayar Sherif lost 2-1 on Tuesday in the first stage of the Grand Slam competition Rolan Garros to world number 4 Karolina Pliskova after a close match. Despite the defeat, she reached a historic level. She is the first-ever Egyptian female tennis player to reach the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament. She won the first set (7-6)… Read More

On this episode, we go to South Africa where a team of youth reporters and presenters are creating entertaining and informative programming on a daily basis. And with the demand for home delivery of food growing in the country, we meet with Leon Qwabe creator of the Order Kasi, a digital service that is helping to meet this demand for… Read More

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied said he supports the death penalty after public outrage over a woman’s murder sparked calls for executions to restart. Tunisia carried out its last hanging in 1991, according to Amnesty International, but death by hanging remains on the statute books. Anyone who kills a person for no reason deserves the death penalty,” Saied told the country’s… Read More

Togo made history this week by appointing its first female prime minister. Victoire Tomegah Dogbé, 60, was named on Monday and immediately set to work to form a new government. She is well known in political circles and has held various ministerial positions. She has been a development minister and chief of staff of the president’s office. Her appointment promises… Read More

Disney is joining forces with a Nigerian production and distribution company-FilmOne Entertainment. The firm will be the sole distributor of Disney-owned films in Nigeria, Ghana, and Liberia. The Nigerian company has built cinemas across the country and will show the Disney classics ranging from Mulan to the more contemporary movies. The agreement covers titles from Disney studio divisions including Pixar,… Read More

Libyans have taken to the streets to protest the presence of armed militias in the city of Tajoura, southeast of Tripoli, after clashes over still unclear causes broke out Thursday between two militias loyal to the Tripoli-based and UN-recognised Government of National Accord — which saw the use of heavy weapons in a residential suburb that consequently resulted in the… Read More

When it Rains it ¨Pours Heavy seasonal rainfall causing devastating floods since June have impacted over 700,000 people across South Sudan — already in a precarious situation due to food shortages from an overwhelming locust infestation and a health crisis from the global Covid-19 pandemic. A large part of the country is under water with the Nile River at its… Read More

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta annonced on Monday that bars could reopen and restaurants could sell alcohol again as the rate of new coronavirus infections slowly declines in the country. Bars were shut in March but soon began serving food to exploit a loophole allowing restaurants to serve drinks with meals. So in July, as new cases rose among young people… Read More