Kenya: Demonstrators protest tax hike plans, 11 arrested/in /by
"Down down finance bill," chanted protesters as a group of about 100 marched towards parliament in Nairobi, which resumed on Tuesday (June 6) after a recess and is expected to debate the legislation this week.
Sissi-Netanyahu telephone conversation after rare border incident/in /by
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi spoke on the phone to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday following a rare deadly incident on the border between the two countries, the Egyptian presidency announced.
Ethiopia rejects HRW accusations of “ethnic cleansing” in Tigray/in /by
The Ethiopian government on Tuesday rejected recent accusations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in the western region of Tigray, which it said were not based on "any evidence".
Artists beautify Rabat streets with giant murals/in /by
Street artists from Morocco and others visiting from aboard spent 10 days in the capital city of Rabat, beautifying it with giant murals as part of the Jidar-Rabat Street Art Festival.
Sudan: 10 DRC Congolese killed in Khartoum/in /by
Ten nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were killed Sunday in Khartoum in bombings by the "regular army" on a campus in the Sudanese capital, the Congolese government announced on Monday in Kinshasa.
‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ production getting more successful/in /by
Phil Lord and Chris Miller didn't expect their 2018 animation"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" to be a runway hit, so when it came to making the sequel - the box office-topping "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" - their choices were clear.
Senegal: Koranic teacher arrested on suspicion of raping 27 schoolgirls./in /by
A Senegalese Koranic master suspected of raping 27 of his schoolgirls in Touba was arrested on Monday in the central Senegalese town after several weeks on the run, a police official told AFP.
Senegal: 3 intellectuals castigate Macky Sall’s “authoritarian drift”/in /by
"The situation our country is currently experiencing results from the authoritarian drift of President Macky Sall, " say, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Felwine Sarr, and Boubacar Boris Diop in a column published in the press and social networks.
Misinformation pollutes debate on GMOs in Kenya/in /by
In October, the administration of President William Ruto, who is due to be elected in August 2022, authorised the import and cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which had been banned since 2012, in particular to deal with the historic drought ravaging the Horn of Africa.
Endemic racism plagues football/in /by
The manifestation of a deeper societal problem, racism is a decades-old issue in soccer — predominantly in Europe but seen all around the world — that has been amplified by the reach of social media and a growing willingness for people to call it out.