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Aminata Sall, who rents out brilliantly coloured dresses in the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, systematically quizzes her clients about their motivations for the prized cultural heirlooms. Kept in a storeroom near her office, the gowns represent a now-vanished group of mixed-race merchant women known as the Signares. “If it’s just for show, I won’t rent them to you,” Sall says,… Read More

Aminata Sall, who rents out brilliantly coloured dresses in the Senegalese city of Saint-Louis, systematically quizzes her clients about their motivations for the prized cultural heirlooms. Kept in a storeroom near her office, the gowns represent a now-vanished group of mixed-race merchant women known as the Signares. “If it’s just for show, I won’t rent them to you,” Sall says,… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Activists on Friday posed as world leaders incapable of putting out the fire as the planet burns. Dressed as firefighters, the mock world leaders did little to tackle the climate crisis and to save a planet “on fire”. Negotiators at this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Activists on Friday posed as world leaders incapable of putting out the fire as the planet burns. Dressed as firefighters, the mock world leaders did little to tackle the climate crisis and to save a planet “on fire”. Negotiators at this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Activists on Friday posed as world leaders incapable of putting out the fire as the planet burns. Dressed as firefighters, the mock world leaders did little to tackle the climate crisis and to save a planet “on fire”. Negotiators at this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call… Read More

Last updated: 14 hours ago Activists on Friday posed as world leaders incapable of putting out the fire as the planet burns. Dressed as firefighters, the mock world leaders did little to tackle the climate crisis and to save a planet “on fire”. Negotiators at this year’s UN climate talks in Glasgow appeared to be backing away from a call… Read More

Last updated: 8 hours ago Hundreds of civil society representatives at the COP26 conference chant as they march through the convention centre and leave it in sign of protest, denouncing the conference a “failure” and the influence of the fossil fuel industry, on the last day of the climate summit in Glasgow. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

The son of a South African anti-apartheid activist assassinated in 1985 said Friday that former President F.W. de Klerk’s posthumous apology for the hurt caused by apartheid was insufficient, and that de Klerk should have been held accountable before his death. Fort Calata was assassinated by the apartheid regime, along with fellow activists Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, and Sicelo Mhlauli.… Read More

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s Gabon overcame Libya 1-0 despite a dressing room crisis going into their Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifier. Aubameyang scored for Pathers after converting a penalty in the 54th minute. The atmosphere going into the tie didn’t inspire much confidence. The arrest on Wednesday of representatives of local players including former international Stephane Nguema who were protesting the two-year… Read More

One man who lost his son in the March 2019 Boeing 737-Max crash said on Friday that monetary compensation, which was not included in a settlement reached between Boeing and families, would have helped take care of his grandchildren. In the agreement, Boeing accepted responsibility for Ethiopian Airways flight 302 losing control shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International… Read More