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Last updated: 1 hour ago Traditional bullfighting was held in Rawalpindi, Pakistan with the participation of over 100 farmers. The bulls, running against the clock in pairs under the control of their owners on a 400-metre dirt track, provided the spectacle. At the end of the day, the owners of the bulls that ran the track quickly and placed in… Read More

On a concrete playground in a poor hillside neighborhood in Brazil, ecstatic children are chasing a ball at top speed. But in an unusual scene for the football-mad country, they are indifferent to the goalposts nearby, instead swinging cricket bats and fielding drives. Welcome to Pocos de Caldas, a city of 170,000 people that is the capital of a lovably… Read More

Last updated: 3 minutes ago A French protester who has been living in a 200-year-old tree near the Eiffel Tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris since 30 May began a hunger strike on Saturday 4 June. Thomas Brail, founder of the Groupe National de Surveillance des Arbres (GNSA), has taken up residence in the majestic plane tree of the… Read More

More than 2,300 delegates from Nigeria’s ruling party are meeting in Abuja on Tuesday, where the All Progressives Congress (APC) is holding its primaries to choose its candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Voters in Africa’s most populous country will go to the polls on 25 February 2023 as President Muhammadu Buhari steps down at the end of his second… Read More

On a visit to the Great Lakes region, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, who is the Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security at the African Union, paid tribute to Burundian soldiers who died while on service in Somalia.  In the company of former Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye, who is now a member of the AU advisory panel, he laid a wreath… Read More

Sadio Mane’s side, the Lions of Teranga will meet Rwanda on Tuesday at the Diamniadio Olympic Stadium. Rwanda have not qualified for the Africa Cup of Nations since 2004 and will be up against a Senegal side that won the most recent edition of the competition in February of this year. Rwanda drew 1-1 with hosts Mozambique in their opening… Read More

In the aftermath of the ECOWAS summit held in Ghana, Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Abdoulaye Diop, deplored the heavy impact of the  sanctions on the population, but also for the entire region, in a context of war in Ukraine which impacts all the economies of the world. “It is true that we would have expected these sanctions to… Read More

A Catholic priest visited his church in southwestern Nigeria scene of a shooting attack on Sunday. The attack resulted in at least 50 deaths including women and children. The Parish Priest described what he witnessed. “I saw people running helter skelter in the town and saying, ‘they are coming, they are coming.’ So I was trying to look for the… Read More

Six opposition leaders arrested after violent anti-French protests in Chad were handed one-year suspended sentences on Monday for disturbing public order. The demonstrators were protesting against what they see as France’s continued interference in the country’s politics. “The prosecutor at this time has not put any evidence on the table, none, but he has requested prison sentences and damages plus… Read More

Built 200 years ago to defend Cape Verde from pirates, the Duque de Bragança Fort on the islet of Sal Rei, one kilometre from the island of Boa Vista, now lies abandoned. But it may soon be restored to its former glory and start receiving regular visits. This is the wish of the mayor of Boa Vista, Cláudio Mendonça, but… Read More