Entries by Rédaction Africanews

Displaced Gazans react to ceasefire plan adopted by UN Security Council

The proposal was announced by U.S. President Joe Biden last month. He presented it as an Israeli proposal, but Israeli PM Netanyahu has publicly disputed key aspects of it. A clear approval of the US-sponsored plan from the warring sides is yet to come.

Palestinian DC Chef and Senegalese Eatery in NOLA win James Beard Awards

More than 100 restaurants were finalists in 22 categories for the culinary world's equivalent of the Oscars , with a wide diversity of cuisines and chef backgrounds, a recent development after turbulent years marred by a pandemic for the James Beard Fo...

USA: A new attraction featuring Tiana, Disney’s first Black princess, to open

'The Princess and the Frog' is a retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. In the 1-hour-37 minute-film finds the lives of arrogant Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths.

Poorly paid doctors and nurses flee Africa for Canada

Cameroon has one of the world's lowest ratios of health workers per capita.

Malawi’s Vice President among 10 confirmed dead in plane crash

President Lazarus Chakwera announced Tuesday (Jun. 11) in a live address on state television that the wreckage of the plane had been located after a search of more than a day in thick forests and hilly terrain near the northern city of Mzuzu.

New study finds African elephants call each other by unique names

The names are in the form of complex low rumbles that can be heard over long distances across the savannah.

Reporters Without Borders Chief Christophe Deloire dies at 53

Deloire had been battling sudden and aggressive cancer and died in Paris surrounded by loved ones, according to board members of Reporters Without Borders, also known by its French acronym RSF.

Women abused in Nigerian military cells after fleeing Boko Haram -Report

Some of the women were detained with their children for years because of their real or perceived association with the extremists, the report said.

ICC Prosecutor seeks evidence of Sudan atrocities after Darfur hospital attack

ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video statement in the aftermath of an attack Sunday by the notorious Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group that forced the closure of a main hospital in the western Darfur region.