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Africa makes up only one percent of the world’s Cultural and Creative Industries, but the eighth Movement Of Creative Africas festival in Rabat sought to change that last week. The continent’s stories, dance, talent and artistic production have inspired creators all over the world but that has not always resulted in an equal amount of economic growth. MOCA’s founder Alain Bidjeck… Read More

Police in the capital Kinshasa clashed with an opposition march on Saturday, firing tear gas at hundreds of protesters. The police said they had deviated from the authorised route through the city. The march was organised by opposition leaders against what they say are irregularities when people try to register to vote for the presidential elections scheduled for December. The… Read More

Cameroon has been celebrating 51 years as unified nation with a military and civilian parade on National Unity Day in its capital Yaounde. For all but 10 of those years it has been ruled by just one man, President Paul Biya. And at 91 years old he is now the oldest head of state in the world. The country is… Read More

The United Nations has called on the international community to take action to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, according to a report by two NGOs, including Amnesty International. The report highlights the “extreme discrimination and violence” faced by “several hundred” LGBTQ+ people living in the camp, which hosts 200,000 refugees and asylum seekers in… Read More

At least $396 million is urgently needed to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in northeast Nigeria from turning into a ” real disaster”, the United Nations office in the country said on Thursday. “We are ringing the alarm bells because there are people who are on the verge of (starvation) death right now in the northeast,” said Matthias Schmale, the… Read More

Zimbabwe has begun releasing more than 4,000 prisoners under a presidential amnesty that authorities say will help ease congestion in some overcrowded jails. About 800 prisoners were released on Friday from the Central Prison and Chikurubi Maximum Prison in the capital, Harare. Jails in other parts of the country began releasing prisoners who qualified for the amnesty on Thursday, said… Read More

Senegal staged a dramatic late comeback to beat Morocco 2-1 and win the Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations title at the Nelson Mandela stadium in Algiers on Friday. Morocco had taken an early lead after scoring in the  14th minute with a header from Abdelhamid Ait Boudlal. But Senegal was awarded a penalty with just ten minutes before the whistle… Read More

Franco-Senegalese director Ramata-Toulaye Sy has made it to Cannes with her first feature length film. She wrote the script for “Banel et Adama” back in 2014 when she was a student at the film school Fémis and only filmed it years later in a rural village in northern Senegal. Although she was born, raised and studied in France, Sy said… Read More

A Ugandan LGBT activist have said they plan to return to their home country next week even though they fear they could be arrested. DeLovie Kwagala, who is non-binary and prefers to use the pronoun ‘they,’ has been living in Johannesburg in South Africa since 2021 but their visa is about to expire. Anyone who “knowingly promotes homosexuality” faces up to 20… Read More

Azali Assoumani, the president of the Comoros, which is made up of just three islands off south-eastern Africa, has arrived in Hiroshima for the G7 summit. The Comoros was invited as it is chairing the African Union this year. Normally South Africa attends the summit but Japan has sidelined it for not imposing sanctions against Russia afrer it invaded Ukraine.… Read More