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As part of our news analysis slot on Africanews, we will be updating a media watch page that deals with major issues of media ongoings across the continent. It will cut across happenings in mainstream and across social media with also a special eye for fake news. Burundi arrest journalist over corruption report Ghana remembers slain anti-corruption investigator Cameraman assaulted… Read More

4 hours ago The world’s most famous Carnival celebration kicked off in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday. The newly elected king and queen of this year’s party received the city’s key from Marcelo Alves, president of the City Tourism Promotion Office, a symbolic gesture that marks the official opening of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. For the first time 200-thousand people… Read More

Four African nations are targets of a new travel ban by United States president Donald Trump, multiple news sources have reported. An official announcement is expected by next week. Incidentally, only one of the quartet is a Muslim-majority nation i.e. Sudan. The others are Eritrea, Nigeria and Tanzania. During an engagement on the sidelines of the ongoing 2020 World Economic… Read More

15 hours ago Hundreds of Russian Communist Party supporters on Tuesday marched to Vladimir Lenin’s mausoleum to mark the 96th anniversary of his death. Party supporters gathered at Mosow’s Red Square to lay flowers outside the tomb where the embalmed body of Lenin – the Soviet Union’s first leader – remains on view. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov gave a… Read More

Recent fighting between state forces and armed groups in Ethiopia’s Oromia region has led to displacements in the region, the largest and most populous in the country. The privately-owned Addis Standard portal quoted the United Nations as confirming that displacements had taken place in the Guji zone of Oromia region. Specifically in various kebeles of Seba Boru woreda, “hundreds of… Read More

Angolan authorities have vowed to explore all possible means to bring back Isabel Dos Santos, the daughter of the country’s former president. Thousands of recently leaked documents claimed that Dos Santos, dubbed Africa’s richest woman, made her fortune by ripping off the Angolan people. Speaking on public radio on Monday, Helder Pitra Gros, Angola’s prosecutor general, said he would invoke… Read More

Militants attacked a market in Burkina Faso’s Sanmatenga province, killing at least 36 people and wounding several others, the government said Tuesday. The gunmen then burned the market, according to a government statement. The violence is the latest in a surge of attacks in the West African nation’s north that led to the displacement of more than half a million… Read More

Bikutsi, a dance celebrating sexuality and relationships, has taken centre stage across Cameroon in the past three decades. The form arose in patriarchal communities where women were forbidden “to raise their voices in public”, Cameroonian ethnomusicologist Jean Maurice Noah wrote in his book on the subject. Olivia Beyene, Bikutsi singer said: “That’s the soppy, frilly side, that’s what it is.… Read More

Rwanda is considering waiving visa fees for a broad category of visitors entering the country, president Paul Kagame is reported to have said in London. The waiver if eventually passed will mean that all Africans, citizens of Commonwealth nations and the Francophonie will be admitted into Rwanda without having to pay visa fees. According to the state broadcaster, the Rwanda… Read More

The Nile Ritz-Carlton hotel located in Egypt’s capital Cairo hosted the high and mighty in African football when the second-round draw for African World Cup 2022 qualifiers was held on Tuesday, January 21. Africa’s race to elect representatives for the next World Cup now enters the second-round with today’s draw. Forty teams were pooled into 10 groups of four after… Read More