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Heat and health: Dar es Salaam's informal settlements need help

In the coming decades, heat will become one of the most significant and visible impacts of climate change, particularly in Africa, where temperatures are expected to increase faster than the global average. Heat is linked to both increases in deaths and disease.

The Conversation

Ethnic poverty: dividing and excluding people keeps them poor

Sub-Saharan African countries are the most ethnically diverse in the world. Within each African country there are more ethnic groups than there are in most of the world’s countries.

The Conversation

Rare £100 note sells for staggering sum at auction

Proceeds will go to Oxfam’s work in east Africa and Ukraine, charity says

The Independent UK

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Travel for Two: On safari, a gin and tonic gives rise to the perfect African sundowner

The end of the evening is fast approaching on the African savanna. On safari in Kenya, deep in the heart of Loisaba Conservancy in Laikipia County, our late afternoon game drive is chilly, enough to snuggle under a blanket in the open-sided Land Rover. Most safari lodges and camps across…

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Egypt Calls for African Coordination Meeting Ahead of COP-27

Egypt on Sunday urged the African states to hold a meeting to coordinate the continent’s stances in preparation for the COP27 Climate Summit, which it will host in Sharm el-Sheikh next November. During a workshop held by Morocco via videoconference on “The challenges of mobilizing capital markets to finance the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kenyan 'Cartooning for Peace' plan aims to draw Africa towards democracy

A group of cartoonists from around the world assembled for the Cartooning for Peace initiative in Nairobi, Kenya, this month to raise awareness of the power of press cartoons in promoting democracy on the African continent.

Radio France Internationale

Libyan Rivals Resume UN-Brokered Talks on Elections

Rival Libyan officials on Sunday resumed talks in the Egyptian capital, the latest UN-led efforts to agree on constitutional amendments for elections as the North African nation again finds itself at a political impasse. Twelve lawmakers from Libya’s east-based parliament and 11 from the High Council of State, an advisory…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Africa is facing significant fuel shortages

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Kinley Salmon, Africa correspondent for The Economist, about the widespread fuel shortages affecting the continent.

WEKU

Bill Gates: ‘Vaccines are a miracle. It’s mind-blowing somebody could say the opposite’

The Microsoft co-founder takes questions from scientists, academics and readers on Ukraine, Covid, Jeffrey Epstein and more

The Guardian - UK

New Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa reveals plans to use acting success to build school in Rwanda

Ncuti, 29, was born in Rwanda but when he was just two years old fled the east African country with his family to escape the brutal civil war.

Daily Record

Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies

Britain stirred up tensions, chaos and violence in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, according to declassified papers

The Guardian - UK

The U.S. pledged billions to fight climate change. Then came the Ukraine war

The U.S. promised to slash its emissions and send tens of billions of dollars to low-lying and less well-off nations. The war in Ukraine is delaying that even as the toll from climate change rises.

WEKU

South Africa in new surge of COVID from versions of omicron

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants

The Independent UK

Spain, Morocco agree to reopen African land borders after two-year closure

The land borders between Morocco and Spain's north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla will reopen next week, the authorities in Madrid have announced. The frontier was closed for more than two years due to Covid-19 restrictions and tensions between the two governments.

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South Africa’s April floods made twice as likely by climate crisis, scientists say

Brutal heatwave in India and Pakistan also certain to have been exacerbated by global heating, scientists say

The Independent UK

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France 24

South Africa may have to close first vaccine plant

In tonight's edition: After struggling through the early years of the pandemic to get enough Covid-19 vaccinations, Africa's first factory to produce the doses says it may have to stop because it hasn't had enough orders. Also, a former Congolese policemen gets a death sentence for murdering human rights activist…

Daily Mirror

Ten-year-old who is 'Africa's richest kid' gets £300,000 Lamborghini for birthday

Muhammed Awal Mustaph, who is known as Mompha Junior on picture sharing site Instagram, hit the landmark age last month, but only recently showed off his new yellow supercar

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The Independent UK

UK weather: North African plume to sweep across Britain for 24C weekend

Saturday could be hottest day of year so far before rain sweeps in

The Conversation

What school textbooks in South Africa say about the Cold War -- and why it matters

South Africa’s stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine isn’t that surprising in light of its treatment of the Cold War in the school history curriculum and textbooks. In these it’s reflected as having had a negative impact on Africa.

The Independent UK

South African firm says it may close its COVID vaccine plant

The first factory to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Africa has announced that it has not received enough orders and is planning to stop production within a few weeks, in what a senior World Health Organization official described as a “failure” in efforts to achieve vaccine equity

The Independent UK

Alabama shipwreck holds key for kin of enslaved Africans

A crew working on the Alabama coast is assessing the remains of the last slave ship known to have landed in the United States, more than 160 years ago

Asharq Al-Awsat

WHO: COVID-19 Falling Everywhere, Except Americas and Africa

The number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa, the World Health Organization said in its latest assessment of the pandemic. In its weekly pandemic report released late Tuesday, the UN health agency said about 3.5 million new cases and more…

The Independent UK

WHO: COVID-19 falling everywhere, except Americas and Africa

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide has continued to fall except in the Americas and Africa

Evening Standard

Who was Mazisi Kunene? Google Doodle celebrates South African poet and activist

His work is known for exploring South African culture, religion and history.

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