One In Four Children in Zamfara, Northwest Nigeria is Malnourished

One out of every four children under the age of five is malnourished in the Shinkafi and Zurmi areas of Nigeria’s Zamfara state, according to a mass screening conducted in June by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and the Ministry of Health. Of the 97,149 children screened in 21 different urban and rural locations, 27 per cent were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with five per cent having severe acute […]

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One year after devastating floods in Libya, humanitarian needs remain urgent

One year since Storm Daniel ravaged Libya's eastern coast, claiming over 5,900 lives and displacing more than 44,000 people, humanitarian needs remain alarmingly high. Five leading international aid agencies, including Acted, International Medical Corps (IMC), the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), and Premiere Urgence Internationale (PUI), stress the urgent need for continued emergency interventions and long-term recovery strategies to support the affected communities. In a newly […]

September 10, 2024 4

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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Participates in the 10th Session of AMCEN

Mrs. Massandjé TOURE-LITSE, ECOWAS Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Agriculture, led a delegation to the Conference of African Ministers in charge of Environment in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 30 August to 6 September 2024. The Conference is organised annually under the aegis of the African Union and in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme to review environmental concerns in Africa and agree on relevant resolutions to be brought to […]

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Africa

Steve Biko, the South African liberation struggle hero who considered dishonour worse than death

By Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom? Jacob Dlamini explores this and other questions in his new book, Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa. This edited extract, from the chapter Dead and Proud, focuses on Steve Biko’s attitude to martyrdom and to the political uses of death (30). Steve Biko’s death on 12 September […]

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Africa

Looting of the Sudan National Museum – more is at stake than priceless ancient treasures

By Mohamed Albdri Sliman Bashir, University of Khartoum Reports continue to emerge of the alleged looting of tens of thousands of artefacts from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. The museum, near the confluence of the White and the Blue Niles, holds a history of the region, home to ancient civilisations, temples and pyramids. But it has been caught in the crossfire in a war between the […]

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Back to school: Headteacher returns after melon-sized tumor that forced him to quit removed by surgical charity

A headteacher who had to quit his job after a melon-size tumor grew on his face was greeted with open arms as he returned to the classroom after receiving transformational surgery from charity Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.org). Grandfather Auguste, 64, spent six long years away from his school in Senegal after the tumor forced to him to leave as it expanded from a spot to the large growth over 13 years. […]

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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission hosts Technical Validation Workshop on the detailed Design Study of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway

The Transport Directorate of the ECOWAS Commission is hosting a 3-day technical validation workshop for the Detailed Design Study (DDS) of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway in Lagos, Nigeria, from Wednesday, 11th September to Friday, 13th September 2024. The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project (ALCHDP) aims to construct a 6-lane dual carriage highway from Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, through Ghana, Togo, Benin to Lagos in Nigeria. The five Corridor Countries have […]

September 10, 2024 4

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2024 Basketball Africa League Champion Angola’s Petro de Luanda to Participate in International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Intercontinental Cup in Singapore

The 2024 Basketball Africa League (BAL) champion (http://apo-opa.co/3B14HVx) (https://BAL.NBA.com/) Petro de Luanda (Angola) will participate in the 2024 FIBA Intercontinental Cup at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore from Sept. 12-15, 2024. Petro de Luanda will compete in Group A alongside Europe’s Basketball Champions League (BCL) winner Unicaja from Spain and BCL Asia winner Al Riyadi from Lebanon. Group B will feature BCL Americas winner Quimsa from Argentina, NBA G League […]

September 10, 2024 8

Africa

Mysterious African manatees inspire a growing chorus of champions

By Petro Kotzé, via Mongabay As a young student, Aristide Kamla had “big plans” when he traveled to Lake Ossa in Cameroon to conduct his master’s degree fieldwork with the little-known African manatee. He was hoping for a manatee count and a management plan to come out of the expedition on the roughly 4,000-hectare (10,000-acre) lake. But securing grants was difficult for this budding researcher, so his first funder […]

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