Sebastien Ogier won the 70th edition of the Safari Rally Kenya on Sunday after just managing to hold off Kalle Rovanpera in a thrilling finale. The French 8-time world champion held a narrow 13.6 second advantage over the current champion and 2023 points leader going into the final three stages …
Read More »Ugandan climate activist wants leaders to reflect on climate crisis
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate faced an audience packed with world leaders and finance officials on Thursday, silenced the room and made everyone listen to some uncomfortable facts. Speaking at a two-day summit aimed at seeking better responses to tackle poverty and climate change issues by reshaping the global financial system, …
Read More »Egyptian village mourns after migrant boat sinks
The last time Sabah Abd Rabu Hussein heard from her son, Yahia Saleh, he was planning to board a migrant vessel from conflict-ridden Libya to Europe. That was two weeks ago. The Egyptian housewife said on Sunday that she had begged him not to go but that he had become …
Read More »S.A.’s Ramaphosa urges Russia, Ukraine to de-escalate
South Africa’s President, on Friday (June 16), called on Ukraine and Russia to de-escalate the war. Shortly after his arrival with Senegal’s, Zambia’s and the Comoros’ presidents, the leaders went to Bucha, a suburb of Ukraine’s capital where the Russian army is accused of killing civilians in 2022. An air …
Read More »Climate activists denounce COP28 president
Kenyan climate campaigner, Eric Njuguna, and Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, participated in the Climate Change Conference in Germany. The event takes place ahead of the COP28 meeting later this year in Dubai. Speaking to the press, Kenyan climate campaigner Eric Njuguna denounced the choice of an oil giant boss …
Read More »Senegal: Invaluable archives destroyed during unrest at Dakar’s main university
One week after the end of a deadly unrest that shook Senegal, the country still counts its losses. Volunteers and staff from Dakar’s Cheikh Anta Diop University are trying to salvage what can still be out of some 200,000 university archives. Youths armed with Molotov cocktail allegedly set ablaze the …
Read More »Uganda: Museveni in State of Nation address reaffirms support for anti-LGBTQ law
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday defied international calls to rescind an anti-gay law seen as one of the world’s harshest, including a potential death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”. “The signing of the bill is finished, no one will move us,” Museveni said in a statement after a meeting with …
Read More »Antigua and Barbuda: Rastafari granted authorization to grow herb
For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use. “I (was) born within the Rastafari community. My mother and father are Rastafari,” says Ras Kiyode Erasto, a priest with the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari. Erasto suffered bullying and …
Read More »BRICS ministers urge global ‘rebalancing’ as Putin looms large
Top diplomats from BRICS countries called for a “rebalancing” of the global order during talks in South Africa on Thursday, as the bloc seeks a larger voice in the international arena. Foreign ministers from the five-nation grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Cape Town for …
Read More »Tunisia: 1 Beninese stabbed to death in attack targeting Sub-Saharan migrants
A Beninese migrant aged 30 was stabbed to death and five other wounded in an attack by a group of Tunisians in the central eastern part of the country. The spokesperson for the Sfax court made the announcement Monday (May 29). The attack against 19 migrants gathered in a housing …
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