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A Namibian court on Monday overturned a decision granting citizenship to the son of a gay couple, the latest step in a legal battle over the children of gay surrogate parents. In Namibia, homosexuality is still illegal, although the 1927 sodomy law is rarely enforced today. Yona, now four years old, was born to a surrogate mother in South Africa.… Read More

Two employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) kidnapped two weeks ago in northern Mali have been released “safe and sound and unconditionally”, the NGO announced overnight from Sunday to Monday. “The two ICRC collaborators kidnapped on March 4 between (the cities of) Gao and Kidal (north) were released this (Sunday) evening”, announced the Malian branch of… Read More

Thirty-three people have been arrested under a criminal investigation into a ferry accident off Gabon last week that claimed 24 lives, rescue coordinators said Sunday.. Rescue teams are looking for another 13 listed as missing after a small passenger boat, the Esther Miracle, sank off the capital Libreville on March 9 with 161 onboard. Those detained include officials at the… Read More

In the depths of the Akka oasis in Morocco, two archaeologists are excavating the floor of a synagogue in search of even the smallest fragments of the country’s Jewish history. Dating back to antiquity, Morocco’s Jewish community reached its peak in the 15th century, following the brutal expulsion of Sephardic Jews from Spain. At the beginning of the 20th century,… Read More

A group of women run to meet a passing truck on the Harare to Bulawayo highway. They are hoping to entice the drivers into buying the fruits of their harvest – colourful wild mushrooms. It’s rainy season and fungi appear from the damp soil. Rich in protein, antioxidants and fibre, wild mushrooms are a revered delicacy and income earner in… Read More

The Chinese government has condemned the killing of nine Chinese nationals at a mining site in the Central African Republic (CAR), where a civil war is raging, and the president of China, Xi Jinping, called on Monday for the perpetrators to be “severely punished”. Gunmen stormed a Chinese-operated gold mining site that had recently been launched in Central African Republic,… Read More

Tunisian President Kais Saied has overseen the swearing in of Tunis prefect, Kamal Feki, as the country’s new interior minister. A law graduate and former executive of the Ministry of Finance, Feki is one of the president’s staunchest supporters. He replaces the influential Taoufik Charfeddine who resigned on Friday saying he wanted to spend more time with his family. His… Read More

Cyclone Freddy has moved on from Malawi, but it has left behind it a trail of destruction and the risk of an unprecedented cholera outbreak. It is usually spread through contaminated water and, left untreated, it can be fatal within hours, even in previously healthy people. Poor sanitation made worse by a lack of running water and adequate toilets in… Read More

Angolan President Joao Lourenco held a three-hour private meeting in Luanda on Saturday with his Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) counterpart, Felix Tshisekedi. The talks came a day after the Angolan parliament approved a year-long deployment of up to 500 soldiers to the troubled eastern DRC. But Luanda said the contingent would only be moved when it was certain that… Read More

It was all glitz and glamour at the 16th annual Afrik Fashion Week which took place this week in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital, Abidjan. The major fashion event brought together 30 designers and 60 models from several African countries, around the theme “Youth, Fashion and Cultural Diversity”. “We think that Africa and even Côte d’Ivoire deserve to host a fashion… Read More