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Last updated: 1 hour ago New York’s Halloween parade returns after a hiatus due the Covid pandemic. Thousands of people in costumes filled up the streets of Manhattan. “Everybody gets so creative. It’s nothing that you ever see before. Everything is so different and unique and there’s so much passion behind it,” says Raquel Valentin who came dressed as Catwoman.… Read More

Last updated: 40 minutes ago Oxfam campaigners posed as world leaders playing in a traditional Scottish pipe band near the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow on Monday. The effigies of leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, were dressed as a pipe band. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s Nobel-winning author, sees his country’s many problems — misgoverning politicians, systemic corruption, violent extremists, and kidnapping bandits — yet he does not despair. At 87, he believes Nigeria’s youth may have the energy and the know-how to get the troubled country back on track. Soyinka credits young Nigerians between 15 and 35 — about a third of… Read More

African governments typically hail the discovery of oil and gas as a blessing, but poor villagers in southern Ivory Coast are among those who say it can also be a curse. On the petroleum-rich coastline of Jacqueville, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Ivory Coast’s economic hub of Abidjan, locals say they have yet to benefit from a decades-old bonanza.… Read More

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the appointment of the electoral chief Denis Kadima has attracted opposition mainly from religious groups and other opposition parties. Congo’s constitutional court on Tuesday swore in the electoral commission chief amid controversy over his nomination. The archbishop of Kinshasa, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo, during his visit to the neighboring Congo Brazzaville said that he disagreed… Read More

Mussa al-Nahas sat outside his fragrance and spice shop overlooking the Red Sea beaming at the sight of Russian tourists, who are beginning to flood back to Sharm el-Sheikh six years after a terror attack. “Today is much, much better than three or four months ago because the Russians are back,” he told AFP. “The return of Russian flights has… Read More

This initiative is lauded by many, but a great concern for teachers. Umaru Deen Kamara is aTeacher at Fattah Rahman Municipal Primary School. “I want to ask the government to list the sets of Punishment deemed appropriate for the children. We don’t know what type of Punishment to carry out. You can ask them to stand in a place for… Read More

Life is not much pleasant for children who live in urban informal settlements given the numerous challenges they face on a daily basis. Hope is however alive for the lucky ones in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums where ACAKORO Football academy is providing a life changing opportunity for the less fortunate children accordind to MOohamed Rashid , operation officer. “We provide a… Read More

To cheers and a trumpet fanfare, a Cambridge University college on Wednesday handed a bronze statue looted in the 19th century back to Nigerian officials, in the first such move by a UK institution. Sonita Alleyne, the head of Jesus College, gave the elaborately carved cockerel known as “Okukor” to a Nigerian delegation. Okukor was among thousands of African artefacts… Read More

Two people died and hundreds evacuated after an underground pipeline in Durban caught fire forcing hundreds of local residents to flee their homes. It is alleged the three people were involved in a botched fuel theft attempt leading to a fire outbreak that engulfed business buildings and an informal settlement. Explosions and rapid fires broke out in the area at… Read More