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Uganda's legislature passes harsh new anti-LGBTQ bill

Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill prescribing jail terms of up to 10 years for offenses related to same-sex relations, responding to popular sentiment but piling more pressure on the East African country’s LGBTQ community

The Independent UK

African nations consider swapping debt for climate funding

African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from extreme weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopian capital

The Independent UK

Africa’s aquifers hold more than 20 times the water stored in the continent's lakes, but they aren’t the answer to water scarcity

Discoveries of aquifers – underground earth formations that hold water – often create excitement around their ability to ease water scarcity in a region.

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Cutting its cloth: can a new industrial revolution transform Benin’s economy?

The west African country, a leading cotton producer, is moving into processing finished goods, seen as a route to prosperity

The Guardian - UK

U.S. aid worker and French journalist freed after years in captivity in West Africa

Jeff Woodke, an American missionary and humanitarian aid worker, was kidnapped by militants in 2016. Olivier Dubois, who was a correspondent for French news outlets, was kidnapped in 2021.

WEKU

LGBTQ+ rights: African Union watchdog goes back on its own word

The primary human rights watchdog in Africa recently made a decision that departed from its existing practice. The African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights, an independent expert body within the African Union (AU) framework, used sexual or gender identity as the reason it rejected applications for observer status from…

The Conversation

US-China tensions: how Africa can avoid being caught in a new Cold War

China’s foreign ministry published a 4,000-word analysis entitled US Hegemony and its Perils on 20 February. It’s an indictment of alleged US foreign interference, intimidation and interventions that began 200 years ago.

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Nine Chinese nationals killed in mining site attack in Central African Republic

Nine Chinese mine workers were killed in an attack in the Central African Republic, sparking a rare call on Monday from China's President Xi Jinping for the perpetrators to be "severely" punished.

Radio France Internationale

Algeria’s Arms Imports Drop by 58%

Algeria’s arms imports have drastically decreased since 2018, according to a study published recently by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The arms imports of Algeria dropped by 58 percent during the past four years. Algiers and Moscow have been preparing for a year a “strategic document” for cooperation.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Factbox-Cyclone Freddy among Africa's deadliest storms

Cyclone Freddy has killed more than 500 people in southern Africa since it first made landfall last month, making it one of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades.

Reuters

China warns against travelling out of Central African Republic capital after killings

China's embassy in the Central African Republic has urged its citizens to avoid travelling outside the capital, Bangui, after a report that nine Chinese nationals were killed in an attack by militants at a gold mine outside the city.

Reuters

How American evangelicals helped spread homophobia throughout Africa

Uganda is considering a bill next week that would criminalise homosexuality. It’s no surprise considering the nation’s anti-gay rhetoric — which proselytising Americans have helped flame.

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Dana White says Conor McGregor USADA situation in Jeff Novitzky’s hands: ‘I don’t give a sh*t about any of that stuff anymore’

Dana White met with the media after UFC 286 and gave his thoughts on Conor McGregor, Leon Edwards vs. Colby Covington and much more.

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Algorithms are moulding and shaping our politics. Here's how to avoid being gamed

In 2016, evidence began to mount that then-South African president Jacob Zuma and a family of Indian-born businessmen, the Guptas, were responsible for widespread “state capture”. It was alleged that the Gupta family influenced Zuma’s political appointments and benefited unfairly from lucrative tenders.

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Al Jazeera

Cyclone Freddy death toll in southeast Africa surpasses 500

World Meteorological Organization says Cyclone Freddy, which started in February, is likely the longest-ever.

The Independent UK

Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal to aid world's poor

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukrainian officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices are pushing more people into poverty has been extended

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Ten Million Children in Sahel Face 'Extreme Jeopardy'

Ten million children in west Africa's central Sahel region are now in "extreme jeopardy" and desperately need humanitarian help due to worsening violence, the United Nations warned Friday. The number of children in dire need of aid in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is twice as many as in 2020,…

AFP

Cyclone Freddy affects 500,000 people in Malawi: UN

Blantyre (Malawi) (AFP) - Cyclone Freddy, which dissipated this week after a record-breaking rampage, has caused more than 460 deaths in southern Africa and affected more than half a million people in Malawi, the UN said Friday.

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WEKU

Cyclone Freddy shattered records. People lost everything. How does the healing begin?

The countries hit by this unprecedented storm now must help survivors who may have lost nearly everything. We talk to an aid worker on the ground in Mozambique for insights.

Radio France Internationale

Death toll in Malawi climbs as citizens clean up after cyclone Freddy

The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said late Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February.

Inverse

One Essential Ecosystem Is Rapidly Disappearing from Earth, Study Reveals

New research reveals mountain forests are disappearing at rapidly accelerating rate, posing serious concerns for conservation of rare and endangered species.

The Guardian - UK

Céilí in Kampala: why Irish dancing is proving popular in Uganda

Schools in the country’s capital are celebrating St Patrick’s Day after Irish dancers brought a touch of the Emerald Isle to east Africa

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Nigeria’s electoral democracy seeks to find its footing after contentious election

President Joe Biden, in his March 5 visit to Selma, Alabama, reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to supporting democracy and protecting voting rights. This commitment echoed loudly in Africa’s largest democracy, which experienced a contentious presidential election on Feb. 25. In response to an avalanche of criticism, the government postponed for…

The Independent UK

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Cyclone Freddy death toll in Malawi hits 326

BLANTYRE (MALAWI): The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February.

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