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Pharell Williams presented the Louis Vuitton spring summer 2024 menswear collection at the Pont Neuf in Paris. The show is the most eagerly awaited event of the season, with guests set to view the catwalk on Paris’ oldest bridge from boats on the Seine.  This is the first show for the musician-turned-designer after taking over the menswear collections for the world’s… Read More

Two people were killed and 34 injured when an overnight passenger train careered off the tracks and overturned in eastern Tunisia on Wednesday, the state-owned SNCFT rail company said. The accident occurred shortly after midnight (2300 GMT) when a train operating between Tunis and the southern city of Gabes derailed near Msaken, a town about 150 kilometres (95 miles) from… Read More

Kenya’s Minister of Commerce was in turmoil on Wednesday after publicly denigrating a media group, accusing it of working for the opposition and calling its journalists “prostitutes”. The opposition and journalists’ associations called for a boycott of the minister, Moses Koria, saying that after these statements he was not worthy of working for the state. At a public event on… Read More

Police and protesters clashed on Wednesday when the supporters of the opposition party All People’s Congress (APC) who are accusing the electoral commission and its chairman Mohamed Konneh of alleged bias in favor of the ruling party. The protesters are demanding the release of a more detailed voter register. “We are here to protest because we want a credible election.… Read More

Victor Wembanyama walked into his first NBA news conference Wednesday morning, took his seat and looked out at a maze of cameras and microphones that have been awaiting him for years. And then he smiled. “What’s up, everyone?” the French teen said. Seeming poised and completely ready for what awaits him, Wembanyama’s NBA chapter is now underway. The NBA draft… Read More

An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa, begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people. To his dismay, urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a standoff between Ethiopia’s government, the United States and United Nations over what U.S. officials say may be… Read More

Ghana striker Asamoah Gyan, a footballing legend in his homeland, announced on Tuesday that he was retiring from the game at the age of 37. “It’s a difficult stage in any player’s career, a moment that all footballers dread. But when nature takes over, a little voice starts ringing in your ears… +It’s time…” he told a press conference in… Read More

Sierra Leone’s president who is running for re-election held his final rally in the capital on the Freetown’s Lumley Beach Tuesday (June 20). Julius Maada Bio held his final rally in the capital before the polls open on Saturday (June 24). Voters will also elect MPs and local councils. Julius Maada Bio is one of 13 candidates vying for the… Read More

Libyan authorities deported over a hundred Nigerians back home on Tuesday (June 20). The female migrants who voluntarily chose to return to Nigeria left the deportation office in the capital Tripoli. A spokesman for the Libya Anti-Illegal Immigration department details the conditions under which the women who did not have a legal right to reside in the north African nation… Read More

As soon as Bridget Mosanya went to get a book from her bag to study, it started to rain. The power immediately went out, as it virtually always does in Nigeria, even if it is barely drizzling. “Nepa has taken light,” the 17-year-old said in her now-dark room. She was referring to the national electric power authority, a long-defunct public… Read More