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Last updated: 14 hours ago Iwan Ridwan, 52, also known as Iwan Muri, is a painter from Garut, West Java Province, Indonesia. He is busy composing 100 small paintings of influential figures to feature in his new exhibition set for August 2022. They represent well-known people, ranging from Indonesia to international celebrities. All paintings vary in size from 4 x… Read More

There are some cities in the world where tourists don’t need to step into a museum to come across art pieces. The town of Erriadh on the southern Tunisian resort island of Djerba is one of them. A collective of artists have used old buildings, houses and walls as their canvas. Be them pottery or landscape paintings, the murals visible… Read More

Thousands of Congolese went out in the streets of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, to protest against Rwanda‘s support for the M23 rebels and show their support for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The protest takes place a day after the government reiterated claims Kigali backed the notorious M23 rebel group. “Rwanda has been… Read More

Thousands of Congolese went out in the streets of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, to protest against Rwanda‘s support for the M23 rebels and show their support for the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The protest takes place a day after the government reiterated claims Kigali backed the notorious M23 rebel group. “Rwanda has been… Read More

In eastern DRC the fighting between Congolese forces and the M23 rebel movement is spreading the panic amongst the civilian population. At the end of last week two children were killed when shells hit a school. “What happened to us is very tragic. My child was not sick, and I knew he was playing with his friends not far from… Read More

In eastern DRC the fighting between Congolese forces and the M23 rebel movement is spreading the panic amongst the civilian population. At the end of last week two children were killed when shells hit a school. “What happened to us is very tragic. My child was not sick, and I knew he was playing with his friends not far from… Read More

The Nigerian army has found a woman suspected of being one of the 270 Chibok high school girls abducted eight years ago by the jihadist group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, Boko Haram’s abduction of 276 school girls aged 12 to 17 from a boarding school in Chibok sparked a global campaign for their release called #BringBackOurGirls. Eight… Read More

In the streets of Kigali Wednesday, many residents commented the cancellation of what was supposed to be the first flight from the UK carrying migrants to the east African nation. Seven migrants were due to embark on the plane under what’s called an “economic development partnership” between the UK and Rwanda. However, a last-minute legal ruling grounded the plane. “The… Read More

The IMF’s financial support to Zambia to bail out a massive debt that has put the country in default should be concluded by early September, the financial institution said Wednesday. In 2020, the southern African country became the first on the continent to default on its estimated $17.3 billion foreign debt during the pandemic. In December, the government secured a… Read More

The Gambian government has ordered the suspension of state employees accused of crimes during the presidency of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, a justice ministry spokesperson told AFP on Tuesday. The step marks a significant advance in the judicial process to try multiple crimes committed between 1994 and 2017 under former president Yahya Jammeh, including torture, summary executions and sexual abuse.… Read More