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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.

Al Jazeera

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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%.

Bangkok Post

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 Independent UK

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.

The Conversation

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

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…

France 24

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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 Conversation

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 Independent UK

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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The Guardian - UK

Wildfires will pose great socioeconomic risk in future, say researchers

Chinese and American scientists say western and central Africa may be hit in future

Asharq Al-Awsat

China to Sponsor First Peace Conference in Horn of Africa

China’s newly appointed envoy to the Horn of Africa Xue Bing said his country will sponsor the first peace conference in the first half of 2022, in an attempt to resolve regional conflicts. China is seeking to play a more active role in the key strategic conflict-hit region. Earlier this…

The Conversation

Ukraine refugee crisis exposes racism and contradictions in the definition of human

Not only has the Russian invasion of Ukraine brought to light the awful tragedies that accompany armed conflict, but the subsequent refugee crisis has also uncovered deeply seated racism in the country.

The Independent UK

Ted Cruz cites slaveowner in confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Bushrod Washington wanted to send Black people to Africa

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The inspiring architect from Burkina Faso who lifted world's biggest prize

Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first black person to be awarded architecture’s highest international honour, the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Kéré was born in Burkina Faso, West Africa, and built his architectural practice designing schools and medical facilities that were most often built by local…

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High CO₂ can upset the balance of trees and grass in savannas - what can be done about it

Africa has larger expanses of savannas than any other continent. These ecosystems – mainly grasses and some widely spaced trees – support the continent’s wildlife and livestock, and provide many other ecosystem services, such as nutrient cycling, water balance, and climate regulation.

The Guardian - UK

Millions of children to be vaccinated for polio in Africa after Malawi detects case

First case of wild polio detected in Malawi for 30 years prompts emergency rollout of vaccinations in five African countries

The Guardian - UK

Better use of groundwater could transform Africa, research says

Studies ‘debunk the myth that Africa is running out of water’ but say resource needs to be better managed

Radio France Internationale

Deep sea dive: the Mozambican artist fishing for archives and memories

For Mozambican artist Euridice Zaituna Kala, history is not something you lock away in a book or a museum. It is a fragile, living discipline that needs interaction with humans so it can be nurtured and passed down through the generations. The discovery of a slave ship that sank off…

Radio France Internationale

Zimbabweans barking up the wrong tree with ‘silly’ English names

A prominent Zimbabwean illustrator and animator has embarked on a project to replace "silly" colonial-era names of trees with their native ones. Tafadzwa Tarumbwa wants names like sausage tree and monkey-orange, snot apple and African bubblegum, replaced with their names in Zimbabwe’s indigenous languages.

Reuters

South African court halts construction of Amazon HQ on sacred land

A South African court has halted construction of Amazon's new Africa headquarters after some descendants of the country's earliest inhabitants said the land it would be built on was sacred.

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