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Didier Drogba takes on scourge of ‘fake agents’ scamming African players

The number of fake agents exploiting young African footballers is increasing and Didier Drogba says ‘the dream ends up being a nightmare’

The Guardian - UK

6 South African opposition parties to discuss forming alliance to challenge long-ruling ANC

Six opposition parties in South Africa say they will discuss forming an alliance for next year's national election in an attempt to end the 30-year hold on power of the African National Congress

The Independent UK

‘We’re contemporary, we’re traditional, we’re unique’: the African photographers rewriting the rules

From female bikers decked out in pink to dreamy desert tableaux, a new exhibition replaces two centuries of western influence with Africans’ own liberated visions

The Guardian - UK

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Paulina Chiziane, Mozambique's grand novelist, finally receives her prestigious award

Paulina Chiziane, the first woman to publish a novel in Mozambique, has become the first African woman to receive the most important award for Portuguese literature, the Camões Prize. She’s also the first to break all the rules about what a writer may reveal about Mozambique’s patriarchal culture and social…

The Conversation

Belgium's AfricaMuseum has a dark colonial past – it's making slow progress in confronting this history

Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without history” and fantasies of European superiority are still told in ethnographic museums, like the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and the Musée du…

The Conversation

Spanish police arrest 15 after long investigation into alleged people-smuggling gang

Operation allegedly involved moving people from Syria to Spain on a circuitous route via Sudan and north Africa

The Guardian - UK

Want to see expansion of UNSC permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany, Japan: U.K.

The U.K. has called for the expansion of the UN Security Council’s permanent seats to include India, Brazil, Germany and Japan as well as African representation, underlining that it is high time the powerful UN body entered the 2020s.

The Hindu

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Watch lightning crackle over Europe and Africa in stunning video from powerful new weather satellite

Stunning first videos from a new space-borne instrument designed to improve the monitoring of thunderstorms show the crackle of lightning over Europe, Africa and the Atlantic Ocean.

Space

The Global South is on the rise – but what exactly is the Global South?

The unwillingness of many leading countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America to stand with NATO over the war in Ukraine has brought to the fore once again the term “Global South.”

The Conversation

‘They have no recourse’: FIFPRO Africa on protecting footballers

Al Jazeera speaks to the union’s Geremi Njitap and Kgosana Masaseng on their work to improve player welfare.

Al Jazeera

Meet the ‘headstrong historian’ bringing Africa’s past to life – for Africans

A visit to Nairobi’s archives led to a ‘eureka moment’ for Kenyan Chao Tayiana. She set out to retell colonial narratives – using digital technology to bring lost and suppressed stories to light

The Guardian - UK

French university begins work to return human remains to Tanzania and Namibia

The University of Strasbourg in north-east France has undertaken the task of verifying the origins of its collections of human skulls, bones and other remains that were collected in the wake of abuses under German colonial rule in Namibia and Tanzania. It comes as part of a restitution process demanded…

Radio France Internationale

EU’s carbon border tax: a new report shows Africa stands to lose US$25 billion every year

A new European law that imposes the first ever carbon border tax in the world comes into force in October 2023. It will be applied gradually over the next three years before it is fully implemented.

The Conversation

After fall of Roe, emboldened religious conservatives lobby to restrict abortion in Africa

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

After mutiny, clouds hover over Wagner’s operations in Africa

Wagner’s mutiny in Russia has been eyed with interest and concern in Africa as questions mount over its operations.

Marie Claire

Prince Harry Planning a Netflix Documentary About Africa Without Meghan Markle

“Obviously Harry has a lot of roots in Africa, and he feels at home there.”

Salon

New study upends human evolution history

There's a promising new model for human origins in Africa — but scientists don't quite know what to do with it

Daily Mirror

Meghan and Harry 'will explore other opportunities' as the Duke is set to go it alone

Prince Harry is reportedly set to make a brand new Netflix documentary without the help of his wife Meghan Markle, with the pair 'exploring opportunities as individuals'

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Al Jazeera

‘I connect to the pain’: Finding a second chance in ultrarunning

Ashleigh Adams, a recovering alcoholic, tests her limits in the Comrades – an infamous South African ultramarathon.

The Hindu

A new chapter in India-Africa ties can be written

The report, India-Africa Partnership: Achievements, Challenges and Roadmap 2023, has a set of nearly 60 policy recommendations o deepen the partnership

Belfast Live

Zimbabwean UU graduate will 'always be a Derry girl' ahead of Oxford move

Melville Nyatondo, who studied at Magee campus, hopes to make personalised medicine 'accessible and applicable' in Africa

The Guardian - UK

Finland coalition in chaos as far-right minister quits over ‘climate abortion’ remark

Vilhelm Junnila, already criticised for Nazi ‘joke’, found to have called for abortions in Africa to combat climate crisis

France 24

Exclusive: EU Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen announces fresh aid to Niger

Talking Europe interviews Jutta Urpilainen, the EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, who is in charge of overseeing official development assistance. She announces exclusively on FRANCE 24 a fresh €66 million package for Niger, to be spent on education. Urpilainen stresses that development aid is part of geopolitical competition, and that…

The Independent UK

South African president cleared of wrongdoing in scandal over $580,000 in cash stolen from his farm

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been cleared of wrongdoing by a public watchdog over a scandal involving the theft of more than half a million dollars in U.S. currency that had been stashed in a sofa at his farm

Al Jazeera

Future of Wagner contracts up to African states: Russia’s Lavrov

Saturday’s attempted mutiny has led to speculation about the status of Wagner operatives in CAR and elsewhere in Africa.

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