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The Democratic Republic of Congo is looking to strengthen their partnership with China as the two countries are renegotiating mining contracts for the DRC’s mineral reserves. This first State visit to China by the President of the DRC, Félix Tshisekedi, is the latest in a series of diplomatic exchanges between African leaders and Beijing. Mr Tshisekedi and his Chinese counterpart… Read More

Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. U.S. prosecutors allege that Manuel Chang, Mozambique’s finance minister from 2005 to 2015, was involved in a scheme… Read More

Nigeria became Wednesday (May 24) the first African team to qualify for the knockout stage in the Under 20 World Cup taking place in Argentina. Gambia, AFCON’s runner-up followed in the Flying Eagles path. Four teams from the continent are competing in the 23rd edition of the U20 World Cup. Gambia’s U20 team which is the AFCON runner-up qualified for the last… Read More

Holding a bamboo ink pen, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment. This painstaking task is preserving an ancient tradition, all the while bringing him closer to God, says the 42-year-old Zelalem. At the Hamere Berhan Institute in Addis Ababa, priests and lay worshippers work by… Read More

Africa must not become a “geostrategic battleground”, stated Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, on Thursday, at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Organisation of African Unity subsequently known as the African Union. “In this zero-sum game where the gains of others would translate into losses for Africa,… Read More

Sonya Ibidhi, who worked as a journalist in Tunisia for 22 years, has found the peace she was looking for in growing edible flowers. Ibidhi grows rare flowers used in medicine and cooking, has been awarded her country’s “best businesswoman” prize for 2021. The entrepreneur, who lives in the province of Cenduba in the north-east of the country, says that… Read More

“I never dreamt of becoming a comedian. I didn’t even know what stand-up was,” Akau Jambo heartily reveals. The South Sudanese has come a long way and is now a successful comedian. Aged 26, he is one of the minds behind Juba’s very first International Comedy Festival. The second edition of the event will take place on May 27th and… Read More

Ukraine on Thursday said it would open more embassies in Africa and stage a summit with leaders from the continent, where Russia is also carrying out a diplomatic offensive. “We have recently adopted our first African strategy and intensified our political dialogue with many countries on the continent,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a statement to mark the 60th… Read More

A centuries-old, towerintree that served as a historic symbol in Sierra Leone has been felled during a wind and rain storm in the capital Freetown, the government said on Thursday.g The 70-metre (230-foot) Ceiba pentandra — lovingly known by Sierra Leoneans as “Cotton Tree” — lost all of its branches late Wednesday, with only the base of its enormous trunk… Read More

Around forty environmental activists and religious figures chained themselves together on a footbridge over the Seine in Paris Thursday, protesting TotalEnergies’ megaprojects in Uganda and Tanzania. Opponents say the French energy giant’s $10 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will harm biodiversity and take land from more than 100,000 people without adequate compensation “We are doing damage to biodiversity… Read More