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“Made in Africa” soon to lead global fashion/in /by
Fashion, crafts and "Made in Africa" are booming in Africa. This phenomenon is driven by the rise of the middle classes, but also by a young and growing population and a fast-growing digital sector, facilitating intra-African trade.
Tunisian MPs debate bill that would criminalize normalization with Israel/in /by
Tunisia's parliament begins debating a bill that would criminalise any normalisation of ties with Israel as fighting rages in the Gaza Srip. The draft bill defines "normalisation" as "recognition of the Zionist entity or the establishment of direct or indirect ties" with it.
Zambia: Ex-President Edgar Lungu wants seat back/in /by
Lungu has since launched a bid to lead the Patriotic Front, the party which held power from 2011 until Lungu's loss to Hakainde Hichilema in 2021
DRC: “Journalist in danger” deplores Tshisekedi’s “broken promises”/in /by
The Congolese organization Journalist in Danger (JED) said Wednesday in Kinshasa that it had recorded more than 500 attacks against the media, including five journalists killed, during the mandate of President Félix Tshisekedi, whose broken promises it "criticizes" in matters of the press .
Edgar Lungu – Zambian ex-president stripped of retirement benefits/in /by
Zambia's government has decided to withdraw the retirement benefits and privileges of former President Edgar Lungu after his decision to re-enter active politics.
Boko Haram kills 37 in Nigeria’s Yobe state – police/in /by
Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack by the jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria, police say.
Springbok ‘legends’ start homecoming World Cup victory tour/in /by
South Africa edged greatest rivals New Zealand 12-11 to achieve a record fourth title in a gripping final last Saturday in Paris.
Haiti: Hundreds of voodoo practitioners celebrate Fèt Gede- Festival of the Dead/in /by
We do not have two bodies we have only one body and now, with all insecurity issue we must ask that government, and the members find a way to resolve that. We, Vodou priests, cannot do anything about that.” Vodou priest
Extremists kill 37 villagers in latest attack in Nigeria’s northeast/in /by
The extremists targeted villagers in Yobe state’s Geidam district on Monday and Tuesday in the first attack in the state in more than a year, shooting dead 17 people at first while using a land mine to kill 20 others who had gone to attend their burial, witnesses said
Killers of two tourists and their guide shot dead – Ugandan army/in /by
British citizen David Barlow and his South African wife Emmaretia Geyer were shot dead on their honeymoon in the 17 October attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). Ugandan tour guide Eric Alyai – who is survived by his wife and one-year-old child – was also killed in the attack.