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Male Parents Lead Young Birds in First Migration, New Study Finds

A new study that used GPS tracking of Caspian terns showed that male parents carry the main responsibility for leading young birds during their first migration from the Baltic Sea to Africa. Bird migration has fascinated human minds for millennia. How do these creatures learn to find their way to…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘Africa must be self-sufficient’: John Nkengasong on learning the deadly lessons of pandemics

The outgoing director of Africa Centres for Disease Control has seen Ebola, Aids and now Covid – and warns complacency is dangerous

The Guardian - UK

Egypt Will Defend with 16 Players against Senegal, Vows Queiroz

Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz says his team "will defend with 16 players" when they protect a 1-0 lead over Senegal on Tuesday in the second leg of an African World Cup play-off. "What I mean by 16 players is that each one must make the effort of two players, not…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Cold war echoes as African leaders resist criticising Putin’s war

Many remember Moscow’s support for liberation from colonial rule, and a strong anti-imperialist feeling remains

The Guardian - UK

Senegal vs Egypt: Prediction, kick off time, TV, live stream, team news and h2h results - World Cup play-off preview

Egypt hold a slender lead over Senegal as the two sides meet again in tonight’s World Cup play-off second leg.

Evening Standard

Edinburgh woman finds lost pot she made 30 years ago in Africa in local shop

Edinburgh Live

Qatar, Gates Foundation to Spend $200 Million on Climate-adaptive Agriculture

Qatar and the Gates Foundation will jointly invest up to $200 million over the next two years to help prepare farmers in developing countries to adapt to climate change. The new partnership, announced on Sunday at a conference in Qatar, focuses on introducing climate-adaptive farming methods and technology to communities…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Taylor Swift is caught up in the 'Where The Crawdads Sing' controversy

The trailer release has revived interest in a decades-old murder in Africa, allegedly perpetrated by the author’s family.

Mic

Africa’s Covid experts build early warning systems for the next pandemic

The One Million Fevers project aims to track dangerous pathogens to avert the next outbreak

Evening Standard

France urges food security crisis plan to avoid famine stoked by Ukraine war

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for an urgent international food security plan to avert "famine" in vulnerable countries, notably in Africa, after the Russian war in Ukraine saw a sharp drop in cereal exports.

Radio France Internationale

Dozens killed in twin attacks in Somalia ahead of elections

In tonight's edition: Dozens of people are killed in twin attacks in Somalia. Al Shabaab extremists claim responsibility, saying they were targeting politicians in a bid to disrupt already stalled elections. Also, Tunisian farmers take the law into their own hands in the midst of an ongoing water crisis. Poor…

France 24

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

MARCH 18 – 24

The Independent UK

TV tonight: confronting the anti-vaxxers in Africa

Unreported World returns with a new series. Plus: Mary Beard ends things on a high in conversation with Elif Shafak. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Salah-Mane rivalry highlights Africa’s Qatar World Cup playoffs

Two-legged playoffs set to kick off on Friday as five teams from Africa will qualify for Qatar 2022.

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Bangkok Post

The fight against cancer is unequal

Advances in cancer care have yielded enormous benefits and saved millions of lives. Between 2000 and 2015, high-income countries cut cancer patients' probability of dying from the disease by 20%.

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe renews COVID vaccination drive, targets schoolkids

Zimbabwe has launched a new COVID-19 vaccination campaign that includes jabbing children aged 12 and above to rescue a drive faltering due to vaccine hesitancy and complacency

The Conversation

Science and race in South Africa: lessons from 'old bones in boxes'

The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this edited extract from the introduction of his new book, Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race (Wits University Press, 2022), Alan G. Morris examines the discipline’s…

The Conversation

South African media treat fire as foe – its ecosystem benefits get lost in the blaze

Fire can destroy infrastructure and livelihoods, and claim lives. Yet fire is inevitable and has helped to shape ecosystems over millennia.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Climate smart’ policies could increase southern Africa’s crops by up to 500%

Researchers outline urgent steps to improve food security in the face of increasing natural disasters caused by the climate crisis

France 24

Madagascar left reeling from two major cyclones

The island of Madagascar, just off the east coast of Africa, has been hit by five natural disasters in less than two months, including two major cyclones. More than 200 people have died and 460,000 have been left without shelter. The eastern city of Mananjary has been practically wiped off…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Salah Vows Revenge as Egypt and Senegal Fight for World Cup Place

Egypt captain Mohamed Salah has vowed to avenge an Africa Cup of Nations final loss last month to Sadio Mane-inspired Senegal when they clash again on Friday in a 2022 World Cup play-off. Failure in the continental final was particularly bitter for prolific Liverpool scorer Salah as he was also…

The Conversation

Why the future of the world's largest religion is female – and African

At the start of 2019, Bill and Melinda Gates released a list of facts that had surprised them the previous year. Number four on their list: “Data can be sexist.”

The Conversation

DRC is set to become 7th member of the east Africa trading bloc: what's in it for everyone

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

The Independent UK

Amid dropping COVID cases, South Africa loosens restrictions

With declining cases of COVID-19, South Africa’s president has announced that it is no longer mandatory to wear masks outdoors and vaccinated travelers entering the country are no longer required to produce a negative PCR tests

The Conversation

Red gold: the rise and fall of West Africa's palm oil empire

For thousands of years, the oil palm - indigenous to West Africa – has had an intimate relationship with people. An explosive expansion of oil palm groves throughout western and central Africa in the wake of a dry period around 2,500 years ago enabled human migration and agricultural development; in…

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