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AFCON: How The Gambia was at home among Africa’s best

The lowest-ranked team at this year’s African football tournament managed to reach the last-eight of the tournament.

Al Jazeera

How Covid-19 effects your skin

The omicron variant that started from south Africa has now invaded almost every country on the globe. Its symptoms are slightly different from that of covid-19 hence its more difficult to spot. The highly transmissible mutant variant has resulted in an increase in cases, raising the risk of another COVID…

The Times of India

Belagavi firm to build 6,000 houses in Rwanda

The Department of MBA at KLS Gogte Institute of Technology organised an online international conference on Indo African Businesses-Strategic Perspective in Belagavi recently. Belagavi-based developer

The Hindu

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Drug-resistant malaria appears in Africa

Resistance to the drug artemisinin was confirmed in Africa. Without surveillance, it is hard to track the threat

Salon

UAE, Ethiopia Discuss Regional Developments, Peacemaking in Horn of Africa

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at al-Watan Palace. The two officials discussed cooperation, joint work, and ways to enhance ties between the two countries various fields to advance their…

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Sudan FM: We Look Forward to a Pivotal Saudi Role in Africa

South Sudan Foreign Minister Mayiik Ayii Deng affirmed that Juba strives for a comprehensive strategic partnership with Riyadh and looks forward to a pivotal role for Saudi Arabia in contributing to the country’s advancement by injecting investments in vital development projects. As for Yemen, Deng said that the “Riyadh Agreement”…

Asharq Al-Awsat

South Africa hails new COVID jab plant in fight for self-reliance

The project in Cape Town is the latest seeking to redress Africa’s reliance on the West for vaccines.

Al Jazeera

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VIDEO: What A Cute Little Nipper: Zookeeper Helps Struggling Baby Croc To Hatch

Reptile expert at an African nature park lends a helping hand, gently peeling through the tough crocodile shell.

Zenger

The African Concert Series review – wild and shimmering piano gems

Rebeca Omordia launches this year’s series with a fascinating recital of music from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco and South Africa

The Guardian - UK

Morocco Challenges Russia And China On COVID Vaccine Production, King Unveils New $448 Million Plant

America's oldest ally reveals plan to produce 20 million vaccine doses by years' end, becoming the biomedical center of Africa.

Zenger

Should the world map be more realistic? We ask an expert

Geography professor Donald Houston on why the 16th-century projection that exaggerates the western world and diminishes the size of Africa is misleading

The Guardian - UK

Covid spurs Africa’s burgeoning vaccine manufacturing industry

South African-born biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong has launched a new facility in Cape Town to make Covid vaccines based on cancer therapy technology

Evening Standard

Cameroon XI vs Gambia: Confirmed team news, starting lineup, injury and Covid latest for AFCON tie today

Gambia are next up in Cameroon’s quest to win the Africa Cup of Nations on home soil.

Evening Standard

Storm Ana deaths rise to 88 as second storm brews to Africa's east

Tropical Storm Ana has killed at least 88 people across southern and eastern Africa, with recovery operations still ongoing as another storm threatened more severe weather.

Reuters

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The Conversation

WHO head Tedros faces a challenge all humanitarians know well

In 2017, the World Health Organisation (WHO) appointed Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as its director general. He’s the first African and the first person from the global south to occupy this high office.

France 24

Africa's moment: What makes the AFCON football tournament unique?

Every two years, football comes home... to Africa. This year, the Africa Cup of Nations is hosted by Cameroon and, no doubt, there's plenty to criticise: dodgy calls by the ref, questionable Covid-19 protocols and a deadly stampede that left eight dead. And yet, football fans the world over are…

Radio France Internationale

Gambia and Equatorial Guinea add freshness to Afcon last eight line-up

It’s quite rare for one of the central tenets of Christian evangelism to entwine with the Africa Cup of Nations. But at the end of nearly three hours of toil, sweat and matyrdom, they fuse: Jesus saves.

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The Conversation

Book review: how Africa was central to the making of the modern world

Journalist, photographer, author and professor Howard W. French’s Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War, is the most recent in a long career of thoughtful and significant literary and journalistic interventions. It demands an account of modernity that reckons…

The Conversation

Nigeria needs more social science research: how to boost output

Sub-Saharan Africa faces some of the biggest challenges to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. For instance, Nigeria has at least 87 million people in extreme poverty. The country’s unemployment rate was over 33.3%, the second highest in the world, at the end of 2020.

Daily Mirror

Africa's richest man has explained when he'll buy Arsenal and been told takeover cost

Aliko Dangote has been Africa's Richest Man for the past 11 years and the billionaire has regularly spoken about wanting to buy Arsenal - although the Kroenke's are adamant the club is not for sale

Evening Standard

Nigeria still reeling from AFCON exit amid Instagram abuse, manager questions and imminent World Cup decider

The post-mortem continues for Nigeria after the pre-tournament favourites’ early exit from the Africa Cup of Nations.

Radio France Internationale

France, Sub-Saharan Africa flounder in the fight against corruption

Over the past 10 years, France's leadership in the fight against corruption has stagnated, according to Transparency International, in its annual global report of 180 countries on the perception of graft. And many African countries are failing in the struggle against endemic clientelism and fraud.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Infantino Suggests Biennial World Cup Could Prevent Migrant Deaths in Mediterranean

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday that increased revenues from a biennial World Cup would create opportunities for Africans who otherwise could migrate and find "death in the sea" crossing the Mediterranean. The idea of a World Cup every two years has been gathering steam with Infantino trying to…

The Independent UK

Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar count deaths, damage by storm

Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage by tropical storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rains across southern Africa

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