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It took years for Marie Louise Wambale and her three kids to re-establish her life after fighting between M23 and the Congolese army forced her to flee with almost nothing more than a decade ago. Like most Catholics in eastern Congo, the 42 years old woman hoped that Pope Francis could bring a message of hope at a time when… Read More

At a packed festival in central Jakarta, hijab-clad sexagenarian singer Rien Djamain bursts into an upbeat track about nuclear destruction to a crowd of thousands, mostly young Indonesians. Behind the frontwoman of the all-female Nasida Ria band are her fellow musicians, dressed in silver and black sequined dresses, backing up her velvety vocals with bongos, violins, mandolins, bamboo flutes and… Read More

With anti-France feelings running high in many of its former colonies in West Africa, Paris is being forced to retreat ever further from the increasingly unstable region and re-think its presence, experts say. After Mali forced French troops out last year, neighbouring Burkina Faso followed suit this week, asking Paris to empty its garrison in the next month. France was… Read More

Year 12 student Jeanne Munyonge never felt she completely belonged while going through the education system in Australian schools. “You know you just feel like an outsider. Especially like me, I was the only African girl in my school basically, like in my year level,” says Munyonge. And it took some time for the young woman to find a group… Read More

Angolan President João Lourenço on Friday inaugurated the country’s first satellite control centre. Its main task is to monitor the activity of the satellite “ANGOSAT 2”. The southern African country had in October launched the main satellite with the help of Russia The inauguration took place at Funda area within Luanda, the capital city of Angola and fully equipped with… Read More

U.S Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen concluded her tour of South Africa on Friday with a visit to Emalahleni, the coal-mining town which produces most of the coal South Africa relies on to fire its power stations. Emalahleni, which means “a place of coal”, is home to 12 coal-fired power stations and is among the areas earmarked for the just energy… Read More

Hundreds of Tanzanians attended an emotional memorial ceremony on Friday for a student who was killed fighting for Russia in Ukraine after being recruited in jail. Nemes Tarimo was serving a seven-year term for an undisclosed offence when Russia’s Wagner mercenary group recruited him for payment and the promise he would be freed after the war, Tanzanian authorities said this… Read More

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr became in 2018 Freetown’s first female mayor in 38 years. The member of All People’s Congress party is now running for re-election. During her tenure however, she raised hackles with her style and for projects she prioritized. “When you are assertive, you’re described as being stubborn. I heard that the other day, “she’s stubborn”. I’m like, “really?” If… Read More

The view of a cybercafé is commonplace in The Congo. Gloire Ness a 21-year old from Bacongo in Brazzaville managesa small business. On a daily basis, he has to deal with issues ranging from blackouts to poor access to Internet. “The difficulties primarily from the Internet connection. Customers often say it’s a little slow. It’s not the quality we want.… Read More

French medical charity Doctors Without Borders or MSF, shared Friday (Jan. 27), footage of the rescue of 237 migrants off the Libyan coast. The NGO’s chartered rescue vessel was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, north of the country’s capital Tripoli on Wednesday, when it received a distress call. The Geo Barents ship later encountered other overcrowded rubber dinghies with migrants… Read More