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Last updated: 1 hour ago Twenty million pilgrims, swollen by a record influx of Iranians, have converged on the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala to mark Arbaeen, an annual Shiite festival that culminates Saturday. It is one of the world’s largest religious gatherings, watched closely in Iraq and neighbouring Iran, both of which have a Shiite majority. More about Sourced… Read More

The Nyege Nyege festival delivering on its promise: Days and nights of partying and merrymaking. Party-lovers from all over the world have trooped to Uganda to attend the percussion-filled fest with over 300 artists drawn from across the world. The event is back after a three-year break prompted by the pandemic. “Nyege Nyege was started in 2015 in Uganda, we… Read More

Nigeria is losing 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day to theft and pipeline vandalism, regulators say, and has now lost its status as Africa’s largest crude producer to Angola. With the decline, Nigeria has dropped to fourth place among Africa’s largest crude-producing countries, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest oil market report released this week. The problem is… Read More

A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country’s political future, after spending nearly two years in jail in Egypt, an AFP reporter saw. Tom Erdimi, 67, arrived at N’Djamena airport aboard an EgyptAir flight and was greeted by his twin brother, Timan Erdimi, who leads the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR). The brothers —… Read More

Last updated: 6 hours ago Football great David Beckham has joined the long queue of people waiting to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II, who is at rest. The queue across London for people to pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth II was briefly halted on Friday due to the number of people wanting to… Read More

The Ivorian government, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), hosted the Conference “South-South and Triangular Partnership for the Elimination of Obstetric Fistula by 2030” on Tuesday in Cote d’Ivoire. Many fistula victims suffer in silence, as a result of the stigma. The First Lady of Côte d’Ivoire urged patients to… Read More

After the Zouglou years and the resounding success of ‘coupé-décalé’, rap, or “Rap Ivoire”, is emerging as a new major musical genre in Ivory Coast, with artists hoping to breakout beyond the country’s borders. At the Palais de la Culture, one of Abidjan’s largest concert halls, a long line of several hundred people stretches out, hours before the start of… Read More

The Angolan National Assembly received this Friday the 220 deputies elected on August 24. President João Lourenço’s MPLA has the absolute majority, with 124 seats. The largest opposition party, UNITA, elected 90 representatives. Three parties split the remaining six seats equally. Despite contesting the result of the ballot, UNITA’s leader, explained why he is embarking on the current legislature: “We… Read More

Last updated: 54 minutes ago As the world mourns the death of Queen Elizabeth II, residents of the Soy Club in Kenya, where the then-princess Queen Elizabeth II honeymooned with Prince Philip, have reacted to the monarch’s death. Residents signed a book of condolences for the Queen and some held pictures of the late monarch and her father King George… Read More

A 32-year-old schizophrenic man was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison for fatal blows to a Guinean researcher in 2019 in Rouen and racist insults. The criminal court of Seine-Maritime went below the demands of the attorney general Marion Meunier, who had requested in the morning 12 years of imprisonment against this man of 32 years, hospitalized in the… Read More