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Egypt and Norway signed an agreement for several projects to enhance their cooperation in developing renewable energy on Thursday. Cairo has been striving to launch environment-friendly projects in the lead-up to the 27th U.N. Climate Change Conference in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in November. “The excellent relations between our countries are broad,” Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt… Read More

In Morocco’s village of Inzerki, in the south west of the country, silence has replaced the intense buzzing sound heard during Springtime. The great bee colonies that once lived there have collapsed because of severe drought. An ecological and economic disaster for this village which relies on the sustainability of this activity. “The Inzerki beehive is the biggest and oldest… Read More

The Congolese authorities and the United Nations Mission in Congo paid tribute to the eight peacekeepers killed in a helicopter crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week. The crash killed six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb. The helicopter was on a mission carried out in the North Kivu province, in the east of the country, an… Read More

After nearly a decade of flooding social networks across the continent and the world with the swaying of their hips and cool attittude. Daouda Kavuma’s Ghettos Kids are once again topping the African charts after their appearance in Eltee Skhillz’s video clip ‘ODG’, Nigeria’s most shazamed song of the year “All this children come from the ghetto, from the slums… Read More

Last updated: 01/04 – 20:04 Twenty five year-old Martin Senkubuge spends much of his time locked in this small room which he has turned into an art studio on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala. He uses a charcoal based paint to create extraordinary portraits, many featuring people with the skin condition vitiligo. Vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder which… Read More

Last updated: 17 hours ago Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s church-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the Catholic Church’s misguided missionary zeal. Francis begged forgiveness during an audience with dozens… Read More

In Burundi, coffee accounts for nearly 40% of export resources, and supports 8 million people. However, the sector has experienced a steady decline and is less and less attractive to Burundians be them novices or experienced coffee producers. If Burundi cannot compete on the same level as big African coffee producers like Kenya or Ethiopia, the country still secured a… Read More

In this episode of Inspire Africa, Barbara Loundou takes you to West Africa first. In Abidjan, Axel Emmanuel Gbaou is a chocolate maker who wants more Ivorians to process cocoa locally. He trains women to make them autonomous. We will then go to Central Africa. In Brazzaville, Krist Ondziel Bangui has just opened a small training centre to encourage visually… Read More

In March, President Joe Biden said the U.S. would welcome 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, granting Temporary Protected Status also known as TPS to another 30,000 already in the U.S. But while Ukrainians fleeing the war are met with great marks of solidarity the same doesn’t apply for all. Wilfred Tebah left his country, Cameroun about three years ago because of its… Read More

A giant fire broke out in the main market of the city of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. The blaze which started on Friday night, injured about two dozen people and destroyed hundreds of businesses, according to the authorities. Hargeisa’s mayor said firefightyers had done their best to contain the fire but struggled to gain access to the market because… Read More