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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

Africa

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African football won the 34th Afcon, with Côte d’Ivoire a close second

    By Chuka Onwumechili, Howard University   The 34th Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) came to an end in Côte d'Ivoire with millions of viewers around the world shouting at TV screens, and an astonishing performance by Côte d'Ivoire both on the field as champions and off it as hosts. The west African country beat Nigeria 2-1 in the final but the good news was bigger than the match. […]

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Ethiopia’s first stock exchange on horizon as it begins licensing investment banks

    By Conrad Onyango, bird story agency   Ethiopia has entered the final stage of its first stock exchange launch, as the country’s Capital Market Authority begins to on-board foreign investment banks from the second week of February. The regulator announced that it will start issuing investment bank licenses from February 12th 2024- the first time in the country’s history and after six ‘rigorous’ months of developing guidelines to […]

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UN Security Council worried over rising violence in the Congo

The United Nations Security Council is concerned about the escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Clashes have intensified recently between the M23 rebels and the country’s army. The M23 is one of dozens of armed groups that have long plagued the country’s mineral-rich east, battling for control of land there. Guyana ambassador, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

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African diplomats in Senegal for crisis talks

The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, has sent a diplomatic mission to Senegal to discuss the postponement of its presidential elections. According to the BBC, the delegation will meet local officials and politicians. Senegal's President Macky Sall decided to push back the polls earlier this month. The opposition described the move as a constitutional coup.

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Nigeria’s popular wara cheese has a short shelf life: we’ve found a way to keep it fresh for longer

  By Malomo Adekunbi Adetola, Obafemi Awolowo University   Cheese is a highly nutritious food produced in hundreds of varieties around the world. It’s all made by fermenting milk but the results range widely in flavour, texture and end uses. The global market value of cheese was about US$83.4 billion in 2022 and is projected to exceed US$120 billion in 2028. In Nigeria, the most popular cheese is wara, a […]

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Morocco dinosaur discovery gives clues on why they went extinct

    By Nicholas R. Longrich, University of Bath   66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs vanished from Earth. We’re still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs – distant relatives of the tyrannosaurs – from north Africa suggest that African dinosaurs remained diverse up to the very end. And that suggests their demise came suddenly, with the impact of a giant asteroid. The causes of the mass […]

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The San people of southern Africa: where ethics codes for researching indigenous people could fail them

    By Stasja Koot, Wageningen University   There is a long and often complicated history of researchers studying Indigenous people. In 1999, the education scholar Linda Tuhiwai-Smith, in her book Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, emphasised the colonial character of much research. She warned that it brings with it a new wave of exploration, discovery, exploitation and appropriation. Well into the 20th century, researchers depicted groups like the […]

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MPLA Vice President Luisa Damiao Conveys Condolences to Namibia on President Geingob’s Passing

Luisa Dami-ao, Vice President of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola, pays a visit to President Nangolo Mbumba to convey condolences on behalf of Angola following the death of President Hage Geingob. Geingob, who passed away on February 4, 2024, received heartfelt condolences from the Angolan government and people. President Mbumba appreciates the condolences, stressing the strong brotherhood between Namibia and Angola. The Angolan delegation also extends condolences […]

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Kenya’s sex workers have solutions to their problems, but international NGOs aren’t hearing them

  By Lise Woensdregt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam   In Kenya, rights organisations run by sex workers have gone into numerous partnerships with international organisations over the past decade. In recent research, I set out to understand whether these relationships worked in favour of the sex workers and their organisations. My research focused on an organisation in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, that supports male sex workers. Kenya’s laws punish activities related to […]

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