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Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop has met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, a meeting that cast light on France’s role in the former colony. Sergei Lavrov accused France of France of having a “colonial mentality” towards Mali. France’s “dissatisfaction with the intent of Malian leadership to seek help from external security forces is nothing other than a… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago Hundreds of residents tried to salvage parts of their destroyed homes on Friday, a day after a massive fire engulfed a residential compound in Manila. Residents carried metal sheets and other metal objects to be sold for scrap at 10 pesos per kilo (US$0.19 cents) to make some money. Around 300 residents were affected by… Read More

Alluring, warrior-like or nurturing, goddesses and other female spiritual beings from around the world are the focus of a new exhibition at the British Museum. Entitled “Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic”, it includes ancient sculptures of Roman goddesses Venus and Minerva and Egypt’s lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet, as well as modern images of deities worshipped today. The exhibition is… Read More

The first batch of asylum seekers sent to Rwanda from the UK under a controversial new deal will likely arrive in the East African nation “in the next few weeks”, officials in Kigali said Thursday. Since being announced last month, the agreement enabling Britain to send migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda has attracted furious criticism from rights groups, opposition… Read More

A shipment of one and a half tonnes of smuggled ivory was seized last weekend and three suspected traffickers were arrested in Lubumbashi, in the south-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, judicial sources said Thursday. The origin and destination of the ivory are not known, an investigation is underway. “The source told AFP: “On Saturday, our services seized some 1,500 kg… Read More

The Nigerian police have arrested two men suspected of being behind the high-profile kidnapping of two dozen students in April 2021 in northwestern Nigeria, and the murder of five of them. “They have both confessed to the abduction of the students from the University of Greenfield, Kaduna State, and the murder of five students before the payment of ransom and… Read More

South Africa said Thursday it would review a decision to spend more than a million dollars on a flag project after public outrage. A statement on Thursday from the country’s arts and culture ministry said the department had taken note of the public outcry. The flag was set to be erected at the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum at… Read More

South Africa was embroiled in a new racial flareup on Monday after a white student was filmed urinating on a black student’s books and laptop at one of the country’s top universities. Stellenbosch University, which described the incident as “racist,” said it had immediately suspended the undergraduate student, whom it did not name. According to a cellphone video circulating on… Read More

The story of a young Senegalese man captured in his village in 1917 to serve alongside the French in World War One has opened the ‘Cannes Film Festival ” a certain regard” category. ” Tirailleurs” features Omar Sy (SEE), star of the Netflix series Lupine, as his father who also enlists in order to watch over his son. The film,… Read More

Conflict and natural disasters drove millions of people from their homes last year, bringing the total number of displaced people to a record high of nearly 60 million, according to a study released Thursday by NGOs. Internally displaced people numbered 59.1 million in 2021, nearly half of whom were under 18 years old, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre… Read More