Tag: Africaglobalvillage

Women from Addis Ababa gather to provide food and other items for the Ethiopian National Defense Force, also donating blood for soldiers injured in the war. Tigray forces launched a recent offensive and are approaching the capital Addis Ababa to press Ahmed to step aside and lift a deadly months-long blockade which has cut off food, medicine and other aid… Read More

During Liberia’s civil war, young men picked up rifles when they had nothing left. Morris Matadi was one of them. He was recruited as a child soldier after rebels killed his family and put a rifle in his hands, forcing him to take an active role in the war. The memories still haunt him today. But he is now helping… Read More

Survivors of Sierra Leone’s Fire Explosion are still receiving treatment in hospitals 2 weeks after the incident which claimed many lives. Whiles majority of the survivors struggle for their lives in hospitals, others are resorting to private individual helath workers for treatment. “I thank God for my condition. It’s gradually improving. I lost many of my friends at the Wash… Read More

Last updated: 7 hours ago Models wearing clothes made from different types of rubbish and plastic parade in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv as part of an event organised by the NGO Fashion Revolution to raise awareness on the environmental impact of waste. Fashion Revolution is a fashion activism movement that aims to mobilise citizens, industries and policymakers through… Read More

It’s not been long since Sudan experienced the deadliest day in a series of anti-coup protest. Security forces opened fire on thousands of anti-coup protesters in Khartoum, and its twin city, Omdurman. Whiles families mourn the death of their love ones, others took to the streets of Khartoun on Friday after prayers to protest last month’s coup, which has birth… Read More

Inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop-art movement, Franco-Cameroonianartist Fred Ebami is exploring African and African-American icons with colourful, digitally drawn portraits. Whether it is singer Nina Simone, boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Nigerian afrobeat star Fela Kuti or Nobel winner Wole Soyinka, his works cut across the worlds of music, sports and literature. Even his homage to Warhol’s famed 1962 “Campbell’s Soup… Read More

Last updated: 1 hour ago These pelicans are getting a new home for the winter. Keepers at the Liberec zoo in northern Czech Republic are catching all the big water birds living here to transfer them to a heated enclosure. All were born and raised in captivity, although this species is not endangered. For these captive great white pelicans, migrating… Read More

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday opened talks with Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari and vice president yemi osibanjo as part of his multinational Africa tour. The meeting which took place at the presidential villa was aimed at broadening ties as persistent unrest and human rights concerns prompt calls to revamp the US relationship with Africa’s most populous nation.… Read More

Prince Charles of the United Kingdom met Egypt’s president and the head of Sunni Islam’s Al-Azhar institution Thursday in Cairo on a mission centred on inter-faith co-existence and the battle against climate change. Charles, accompanied by his wife Camilla, held talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as well as Al-Azhar’s grand imam, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, and Samy Fawzi, the Anglican… Read More

Exiled Burundian lawyer Armel Niyongere, an opposition figure, on Thursday called on the international community and France not to resume cooperation with Burundi, where he said human rights are not respected. “Since Evariste Ndayishimiye, the new president elected in June 2020, took power, there has been a continuous regression: many cases of forced disappearances, torture, assassinations,” the president of the… Read More