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Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy has made it to Cannes with her first feature length film. She wrote the script for “Banel et Adama” back in 2014 when she was a student at the film school Fémis and only filmed it years later in a rural village in northern Senegal. Although she was born, raised and studied in France, Sy said… Read More

A Ugandan LGBT activist have said they plan to return to their home country next week even though they fear they could be arrested. DeLovie Kwagala, who is non-binary and prefers to use the pronoun ‘they,’ has been living in Johannesburg in South Africa since 2021 but their visa is about to expire. Anyone who “knowingly promotes homosexuality” faces up to 20… Read More

Azali Assoumani, the president of the Comoros, which is made up of just three islands off south-eastern Africa, has arrived in Hiroshima for the G7 summit. The Comoros was invited as it is chairing the African Union this year. Normally South Africa attends the summit but Japan has sidelined it for not imposing sanctions against Russia afrer it invaded Ukraine.… Read More

Hundreds of people fleeing the fighting in Sudan cross the main border post at Metema in western Ethiopia every day. Around 15,000 people from sixty different countries have crossed over between April 21st and May 7th.  Redin Abdela Ahmed, a student from Khartoum, was one of them. “We have to live together, suffer together, share our stuff with each other,… Read More

Twenty civilians, including women and children, were killed between Monday and Wednesday in two attacks by suspected jihadists in central-eastern Burkina Faso, security and local sources told AFP on Friday. On Wednesday, “armed groups carried out an incursion into Bilguimdouré”, a village in the commune of Sangha, in the province of Koulpélogo (center-east), bordering Ghana and Togo, “causing a dozen… Read More

Kenyan marathon specialist Eliud Kipchoge has won the Princess of Asturias Award for sports for 2023 the Spanish foundation that organizes the prizes  announced. Kipchoge, 38, who took Olympic gold medals in the marathon in 2016 and 2020 and was world 5,000 meters champion in 2003 “is considered a legend in world athletics and the best marathon runner of all time,”… Read More

Arab leaders are to welcome Syrian President Bashar al-Assad back into the fold Friday at a summit in Saudi Arabia that is also expected to confront conflicts in Sudan and Yemen. Assad arrived in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Thursday for the Arab League gathering, his first since the bloc suspended Syria in 2011 over the brutal… Read More

A three-year old South African toddler reads better than 80 percent of the country’s schoolchildren who are more than three times her age. Lethukuthula Bhengu became famous after after her clips on social network TikTok reached over one million followers. Bhengu’s parents started teaching her how to read after she turned two, seeing that she could memorise and associate words… Read More

What do artificial nails, crypto currencies, spaghetti and social media influencers have in common? They are all being targeted by Kenya’s taxman in a raft of new proposals aimed at filling the coffers of President William Ruto’s cash-strapped government. Ruto is seeking to repair a heavily-indebted economy inherited from his predecessor Uhuru Kenyatta, who ramped up borrowing to fund a… Read More

For the first time, the Venice Biennale of Architecture is curated by an African, featuring a preponderance of work by Africans and the African diaspora. Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving a platform to voices that have long been silenced. The 18th architectural Biennale titled “The Laboratory of the Future,” explores decolonisation and decarbonisation, topics about which Africans have much… Read More