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Almost every year Tokyo residents have looked forward to their family’s traditional Christmas meal: a KFC “party barrel” brimming with salad, cake and lots of fried chicken. In Japan, it is customary to eat chicken at Christmas. Every year since the mid-1980s, life-size Colonel Sanders statues — dressed as Santa during the holiday — have welcomed droves of locals and… Read More

Members of a collective, who have come together to speak out about ‘the brutal way’ they were evicted to make space to build Senegal’s capital city Dakar’s new regional express railway, continue to talk about their plight. Estimated at more than 15,000 people, the victims are demanding their compensation and threatening to sabotage the inauguration of the train. One says… Read More

This Christmas has been an especially tough one for thousands of residents of Goma and the surrounding area in eastern Congo who continue to live in camps after a volcanic activity forced them from their homes. The eruption without warning on May 22 of Mount Nyiragongo forced tens of thousands of people to flee, as lava flowed through their communities.… Read More

Last updated: 2 hours ago Hundreds of protesters marched through Barcelona on Saturday voicing their opposition against new holiday season restrictions in Catalonia. The region had reinstated serious limitations which came into effect on Christmas Eve in a bid to slow the spread of the omicron variant. Catalonia’s hospitals are currently caring for one in four of everyone hospitalised in… Read More

Sudanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Khartoum on Saturday as demonstrators once again took to the streets in the country’s capital and elsewhere to denounce the October military coup. Authorities had warned protesters against approaching “sovereign and strategic” sites in central Khartoum – a reference to main government buildings and key institutions. The city’s Security Committee… Read More

Pancake tortoises (Malacochersus tornieri), are a little-known species currently listed as Critically Endangered (CR) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Unlike most tortoises that have heavy and solid shells, the pancake tortoise’s shell is soft, flexible and lightweight. But the pancake tortoise faces many threats to its existence of loss of habitat due to rock destruction, deforestation,… Read More

A bomb blast in the eastern city of Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least six people on Saturday, officials and AFP reported. Narcisse Muteba, the colonel running the city during the state of emergency in the east of the country, said the bomb had gone off in the city centre. He called on residents to return… Read More

South Africa’s retired Archbishop and anti-apartheid icon Desmond Tutu, has died. Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa’s struggle against white minority rule, died on Sunday at the age of 90 “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who… Read More

Thousands of Sudanese protesters rallied Saturday two months on since a military coup, demanding soldiers “go back to the barracks” and calling for a transition to civilian rule. Witnesses said crowds marched on the streets of Khartoum despite a heavy deployment by the security forces, who had blocked bridges connecting the capital to suburbs, cut phone lines and restricted internet… Read More

ELECTIONS HELD IN AT LEAST 12 COUNTRIES 2021 was a year of presidential elections on the continent. In January, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni was re-elected to a 6th term in office amid intense and deadly opposition protests. Then in Niger, it took two rounds to give the country a new leader when Mohammed Bazoom beat his opponent and former president… Read More