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Italian energy giant Eni signed an $8 billion gas deal with Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation Saturday as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli. European governments have been scrambling to find alternatives to Russian gas since last year’s invasion of Ukraine saw deliveries slashed to less than half their pre-war levels, sending prices soaring to record highs and triggering costly… Read More

Several thousand people demonstrated in Ouagadougou for the “sovereignty” of Burkina Faso, in support of the junta in power, a few days after the confirmation of the departure of French forces from the country by the end of January.  “We have decided to take our destiny in hand and it is not the international community or anyone else who will… Read More

Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and has lost much to what he calls an “ancient, fascinating, very unkind disease”. The Zimbabwean former civil engineering technician and pastor was diagnosed at the age of 25 in 1972, but first contracted the disease when he was just five. That long incubation period gave the… Read More

Tunisia’s president and its shaky, decade-long experiment with democracy are facing an important test on Sunday as voters cast ballots in the second round of parliamentary elections. Turnout was just 11% in the first round of voting last month, as many disaffected Tunisians stayed away and the influential opposition Islamist party boycotted. The runoff elections on Sunday are being watched… Read More

It should an idyllic scene – a waterfall cascading into the river below. But look a little closer and all is not well. The Nairobi River has turned sewer conduit in Kenya’s capital. Its waters turn from clear to black as it traverses informal settlements and industrial hubs. As clean water runs short, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities is… Read More

The Bizmoun necklace is the oldest piece of jewellery in the world. It’s on display at the National Finery Museum in Rabat, Morocco, a building which has reopened its doors after years of renovations. The necklace, made of 32 perforated shells, was found in 2019 in the Bizmoun cave near Essaouira. “The oldest piece displayed here is the Bizmoun necklace,… Read More

Noura paces around the center of Tunis in search of milk. “When I find it, I can not buy more than two bricks,” she said about a shortage that illustrates the plight of a sector “in slow collapse. The Tunisian market absorbs 1.8 million liters daily while production reaches a maximum of 1.2 million, according to official data. “Milk is… Read More

The death toll from a mysterious bomb blast that hit a group of herders in central Nigeria on Wednesday has risen to 40 from 27 previously, the local government said on Thursday. “We now have around 40 people who have been killed,” said Abdullahi Sule, the governor of Nasarawa state. The explosion occurred in Rukubi, on the border between Nasarawa and… Read More

The Tanzanian government is seizing livestock from Indigenous Maasai herders in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in its latest attempt to clear way for tourism and trophy hunting, a report released Thursday (Jan. 26) said. The update from the Oakland Institute, a U.S.-based environmental think tank, found that the government forcefully confiscated some 5,880 cattle and 767 goats and sheep from… Read More

On this special interview segment on Africanews, UNICEF goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakata. The Ugandan climate activist plays an instrumental role in amplifying African voices in the climate crisis global conversation.  You were recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and before that last year you were in Sharm el Sheikh for the U.N. Climate Conference. Did you hear… Read More