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One of East Africa’s most popular music festivals has been cleared to go ahead after members of parliament on Tuesday, September 6 announced a ban on the festival, saying it “promotes gays” in the country. The “Nyege Nyege” festival will now take place next week but under “strict guidelines,” according to Ugandan Prime Minister Robina Nabbanja, in local media reports.… Read More

Britain’s new home secretary, Suella Braverman, is admired on the right for her attacks on progressive “woke” activism, but she is taking on one of the most difficult jobs in government. The 42-year-old former lawyer, who was elected as an MP in 2015, has held the low-profile position of government legal adviser (“attorney general”) for the past year, as the… Read More

Wilfran Moufouma Okia from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the U.N. weather agency, says “La Nina is a world phenomenon, a natural one, which is normally characterized by a large-scale cooling at the surface of the ocean in the equatorial Pacific. Now, the implication of La Nina being that it changes the circulation in the ocean — A; B it… Read More

The United Nations humanitarian chief has called for an urgent need for at least $1 billion to avert famine in Somalia in the coming months and early next year. Two more dry seasons are expected to compound the historic drought that has hit the Horn of Africa nation. Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday in a video briefing from Somalia’s capital… Read More

Togo’s parliament on Tuesday extended for six months the state of emergency in the Savannah region in the far north of the country, which has been plagued by incursions by jihadist groups. While jihadist groups operating in the Sahel appear to be gradually moving toward the West African coast, northern Togo has suffered at least five attacks since November 2021.… Read More

Lavish villas, luxury townhouses, high-tech offices, landscaped gardens and a 15-storey commercial tower. These aren’t the plans for the latest building development in Dubai but for a city in the suburbs of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe. Despite having one of the world’s highest unemployment and inflation rates, a debilitating currency crisis and falling foreign direct investment, the project is going… Read More

Around 730 children have died in nutrition centres across Somalia since January, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning the true figure could be much higher, with the country nearing famine. Millions of people are at risk of starvation across the Horn of Africa, which is in the grip of the worst drought in four decades after four failed rainy seasons… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years battered its southern region Tuesday, dumping almost a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, leaving 20,000 homes without electricity as thousands of people fled to safer ground. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Egypt’s foreign minister withdrew Tuesday from an Arab League session chaired by the chief diplomat of one of Libya’s two rival governments. The move was an apparent protest against her representing Libya at the pan-Arab summit. Egypt supports her administration’s rival. The seats of the Egyptian delegation were seen empty as Najla Mangoush, the foreign minister of the Tripoli-based administration,… Read More

The World Cup trophy arrives in Senegal, two months before the competition in Qatar. The former French international, David Trezeguet, unveiled it to the eyes of the Senegalese supporters who came in large numbers to welcome the golden trophy so coveted by the Lions of Teranga. “Senegal will be a protagonist team. The first match against the Netherlands is not… Read More