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For a few days now, the Senegalese capital has been hosting the Dakar Séries, a pan-African festival that offers a new platform to African film actors.  A golden opportunity for Samba Diop, an executive in a telecommunication company, who came to present his very first series project. “Festivals of this nature allow the different actors in this profession to meet.… Read More

Influential Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu, convicted in London of attempting to remove a young man’s kidney for a transplant to his daughter, will be sentenced on Friday after the first such trial in the UK. The 60-year-old lawmaker, his wife Beatrice, and a doctor who acted as an intermediary were convicted in March of arranging the trip to the UK… Read More

Scientists at the National Agriculture Research Institute in Uganda are hoping to save the environment from plastic waste with their new eco-plastic potting bags. Traditionally, farmers use plastic wrappings to pot seedlings. The plastic wrappers are thrown away at the planting stage which is a danger to the environment. Now Ugandan scientists have made a biodegradable type which goes in… Read More

The Arab League (AL) held an emergency meeting in Cairo this weekend, the third of its kind in three weeks, to discuss the ongoing military clashes in Sudan. Sudan has been suffering deadly armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital city of Khartoum and other areas since April 15,… Read More

The toll from floods and landslides in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has risen to 203 people dead as more bodies are recovered, an administrative official said Saturday. The provisional death toll, announced late on Friday (May 5) by the provincial governor, was at least 176 dead. “Here in Bushushu, 203 bodies have already been removed from… Read More

Chefs from several African countries are gathered in Lomé Togo until May 9th. They are promoting products and African dishes at the second edition of FESMA, the cooking-pot festival. Chef Maelle Acakpo is meticulously preparing petits fours. She’ll also serve on the menu today, a tiger nut cake with lemon cream. She is a few kilometers away from her native… Read More

Residents of a Nairobi slum are on a mission to reducing the damage from flooding in their area. Volunteers work together to clear debris and waste that is blocking the waterways and drainage at an informal settlement. Armed with shovels, brushes and rakes, the volunteers are working with Weather Mtaani – a group set up to help improve life for… Read More

A successful African free trade area implementation could unlock major benefits for Africa in terms of income, jobs among other things, a report by IMF staff said. The departmental paper published Friday (May 5) examined the prospects for African trade integration in the context of a changing world amid the climate crisis, risks of geopolitical fragmentation, technological progress, and the… Read More

President William Ruto of Kenya welcomed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Nairobi, Friday, for the second leg of the diplomat’s African tour. The German chancellor is knocking on Kenya’s door, seeking clean energy partnerships after Germany had to wean itself off Russian energy import’s following the war in Ukraine. Kenya is currently Germany’s biggest trading partner from East Africa. 90%… Read More

Air strikes battered Sudan’s capital on Saturday (May 6), as fighting entered its 22nd day only hours before the warring parties are to meet in Saudi Arabia for their first direct talks. The street battles in the city of five million inhabitants continue to cause destruction. Hundreds of people have been killed since the outbreak of the conflict on April… Read More