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Firms from rich countries are taking factories home: what this means for Africa

There is no doubt that globalisation has benefited Africa greatly. This includes job creation, innovation, increased productivity and foreign direct investment.

The Conversation

Nigerian historian and thinker Toyin Falola on decolonising the academy in Africa

Nigerian intellectual and historian Toyin Falola’s latest book is called Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice. It sets out to respond to the urgent need to eliminate the vestiges of colonialism (the domination of foreign powers) in the academy and in research methodologies where African perspectives continue to…

The Conversation

‘I stumbled across it’: the push to help Tanzania’s untapped football talent

Michael Noone went to Africa looking for a change and now has an academy for boys and girls in one of Tanzania’s poorest areas

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WHO considers declaring monkeypox a global health emergency

As the World Health Organization convenes its emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, some experts say WHO’s decision to act only after the disease spilled into the West could entrench the inequities that arose between rich and poor countries…

The Independent UK

Africa must end food, pharma import dependence, AfDB president says

Africa must wean itself off dependence on food and medicine imports, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said, as the institution approved creation of a pharmaceutical tech foundation and began processing requests for food relief.

Reuters

Why are some nations neutral on the Russia-Ukraine war?

Countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East have refused to isolate Moscow, despite the EU’s lobbying efforts.

Al Jazeera

WHO eyes decision on monkeypox 'emergency', Africa says it's long overdue

The World Health Organization will decide on Thursday whether to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, stirring criticism from leading African scientists who say it has been a crisis in their region for years.

Reuters

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Killed Italian envoy's widow tearfully tells pope of husband's aid work

The Muslim widow of the Italian ambassador killed last year in Democratic Republic of Congo broke into tears on Wednesday as she told Pope Francis of her Catholic husband's commitment to help African children.

Reuters

Q&A: How Osi Umenyiora Is Finding NFL Players in Africa

The Giants’ Super Bowl hero on his program’s early success, the future of football in Africa, the state of the NFL and more.

Sports Illustrated

Triple punch of shocks threatens to upend debt sustainability and recovery in Africa

Food and fuel price increases and the aftermath of the COVID pandemic are really just the start of the story when it comes to fiscal shocks which have exacerbated government debt vulnerabilities in Africa.

The Conversation

The African Union's Panel of the Wise: an unfulfilled promise?

In the first years after its launch in November 2007, the African Union’s Panel of the Wise was an important pillar of the African Peace and Security Architecture. The other pillars are the Peace and Security Council, the Continental Early Warning System, the African Standby Force and the Peace Fund.

The Conversation

Rwanda is a brutal, repressive regime. Holding the Commonwealth summit there is a sham

Uniting heads of government in Kigali exposes a gaping hole in the association’s values, says author Michela Wrong

The Guardian - UK

Egypt Calls for Concerted Efforts in Africa to Address Food Security, Terrorism Challenges

The third edition of the Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development kicked off on Tuesday. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi addressed the participants via videoconference, urging African countries to join hands to address the current challenges facing the continent, including food insecurity and terrorism. The two-day event is held under…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The NBA Turns to Africa to Fuel Basketball’s Next Era of Growth

While you’re watching this week’s draft, the NBA is scouring the continent—and the new Basketball Africa League—for new talent.

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‘An embassy of optimism’: the legendary Africa Centre rises again

Its club nights were epic – and now the sorely missed venue has reopened, injecting a whole continent’s worth of zing into a once drab London building. We take a tour

Bangkok Post

Chinese demand for exotic cures switches to donkey skins

MAGALIESBURG, South Africa: Chinese demand for traditional medicines has sent poachers hunting for African animals from rhinos to pangolins. Now a humbler creature is threatened - donkeys.

The Independent UK

UK to offer vaccines to some gay men to stop monkeypox

British health officials will start offering vaccines to gay and bisexual men at the highest risk of catching monkeypox, in an effort to curb the biggest outbreak of the disease beyond Africa

The Conversation

UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assumptions

The UK government’s announcement of a new work visa option aimed at attracting top graduates has elicited some backlash because the list of eligible institutions features no universities from Africa, Latin America or South Asia. The Conversation Africa’s Nontobeko Mtshali asked Orla Quinlan, Director of Internationalisation at Rhodes University in…

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What it'll take for the Guptas to face corruption charges in South Africa

Now that Rajesh and Atul Gupta have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), there is a great deal of speculation as to when the brothers may ultimately set foot on South African soil to face charges of money laundering and other financial crimes.

Radio France Internationale

East African leaders agree on regional force to tackle rise of militias in DRC

East African leaders agreed Monday to send in a regional force to try to end fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and called for an immediate ceasefire.

Al Jazeera

EU pledges $630m to Africa, Caribbean and others for food crisis

War in Ukraine has pushed the most vulnerable countries to food security crisis as grain exports blocked.

Daily Mirror

Prince George's sweet charity gesture after concern for endangered animals in Africa

Prince George, who turns nine next month, organised a cake sale during lockdown to raise money for conservation charity Tusk, the CEO of the organisation has revealed and also wrote him a "very sweet card about it"

The Independent UK

Prince George held cake sale over concern for endangered animals in Africa

The prince wrote a card to the charity Tusk about his venture, the chief executive revealed.

Asharq Al-Awsat

African Lion Military Exercises Kick off in Morocco

The United States and Morocco on Monday launched the annual “African Lion” military exercises. The military maneuvers will take place from June 20-30 in Kenitra, Agadir, Tan Tan, Taroudant, and Mahbes. The drills follow the end of the work of the academic training course for the African Lion exercises this…

The Independent UK

Africa ‘taken hostage’ by Russian invasion as food prices soar, Zelensky says

Ukraine's leader tells African Union that continent has been "taken hostage”

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