Entries by Rédaction Africanews

War affects over 600 million women, UN says /in /by

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report that amid record levels of armed conflict and violence, progress over the decades for women is vanishing and “generational gains in women’s rights hang in the balance around the world”

Egypt, Ukraine foreign ministers meet in Cairo /in /by

Kiev is looking for political and diplomatic support ahead of another peace summit. The first meeting in Switzerland was criticized for not having Russian representatives

RSF militia accused of ‘massacre’ in Sudan’s Gezira state /in /by

Local groups said fighters belonging to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed a town in the Al-Kamelin locality on Friday morning and began firing indiscriminately from high-rise buildings. At least 50 people were killed and hundreds more injured

Hundreds gather for Pride march in Johannesburg /in /by

Hundreds of people marched Saturday to mark 35 years of Pride Johannesburg, an annual event that has been critical in advocating equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community

Haiti gangs try to seize capital as police mission struggles /in /by

According to the U.N, the situation has worsened in the last three months, with more than 700,000 people now displaced in the country and the political process facing "significant challenges"

Malaysia, Ethiopia agree to strengthen bilateral ties /in /by

Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed and his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim held talks in Putrajaya on Saturday in which the two sides agreed to collaborate further in several sectors including agriculture, industry and trade, and investment

Mozambique ruling party calls for dialogue as opposition rejects vote result /in /by

Supporters of opposition candidate Venancio Mondlane have been staging rallies denouncing the results of the presidential election which gave victory to the ruling party's Daniel Chapo

Muhammad Ali’s ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ fifty years on /in /by

On October 30 1974, he gave boxing one of its most memorable moments when he stopped the fearsome George Foreman to recapture the heavyweight title in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). Five decades later it’s still a big part of the Muhamma...

The battle to save seagrass off Kenya’s coast /in /by

A fishing community living on an island off the coast of Kenya is restoring seagrass meadows to try to improve fish stocks. Seagrass meadows cover less than 0.2% of the world’s oceans, but they store twice as much carbon in a given area as temperate an...

Statue honouring Tuskegee Airman found days after it was stolen /in /by

Lieutentant Colonel Alexander Jefferson was a member of the US military's first African American flying unit.