A taxi stops near a busy square, and the first thing noticed is sound. Drums, horns, street chatter, and vendors calling out snacks. Morocco Prepares for AFCON Festival Beyond Football, and AFCON 2025 in Morocco already looks bigger than match nights. Organisers keep talking about culture, travel, city life, and crowds that want plans even […]
A power cut ends, the fan starts again, and a phone lights up. In many African cities, that tiny moment still changes the day. The internet makes work move, classes continue, payments go through, and families stay in touch. The benefits of the internet look simple on paper, but people feel them in real routines. […]
At a rally against the government of Tunisia that was held on Saturday and organized by the influential UGTT trade union, which called on President Kaid Said to embrace “dialogue,” more than 3,000 people demonstrated against the government. Since freezing parliament and firing the government in July 2021, Saied has been able to concentrate almost […]
Emmanuel Macron, the President of France, stated that the period of French interference in African affairs was “well over” as he started a tour of four African nations to renew frayed ties. As a result of Africa’s reemergence as a theater for heated international competition and the expansion of the spheres of influence of Russia […]
On Wednesday, the Labour Party of Nigeria issued a statement condemning the results of the country’s presidential elections, alleging they were not “transparent, free, and fair.” Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, the vice presidential candidate for the Labour Party, provided specific examples of acts of violence and voter intimidation during a briefing held on Wednesday. He also […]
According to the provisional results that were published by the Electoral Commission on Monday, the non-party candidate for the presidency of Nigeria, Peter Obi, has won the most votes in the key state of Lagos, narrowly beating the candidate for the party that is currently in power in his home base. There are three strong […]
Australia won the Women’s T20 World Cup, beating host South Africa by a comfortable 19 runs in the final at Newlands on Sunday. With this victory, Australia has now won six of the eight T20 World Cups played. Australians batted first and scored 156-6 and then the team shut down South Africa’s batters. Beth Mooney, […]
The presidential election in Nigeria has been marked by long delays at some polling locations, but this has not dissuaded the large crowds of voters who are hoping for a fresh start after years of worsening violence and hardship under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The nation with the most people on the African […]
The current drought conditions in the Horn of Africa are worse than those that existed during the hunger that occurred in 2011, during which hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives. It was announced on Wednesday by the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center that below-normal rainfall is anticipated during the monsoon season over […]
Violence in the disputed town of Las Anod in Somaliland, a self-declared independent region of Somalia, has forced more than 185,000 people to leave their homes. This is according to the local office of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). “More than 185,000 people have been displaced,” Osha wrote […]
Instagram, a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms, has announced it will be ending its live shopping feature, which enables the user to tag products in their live broadcasts. Reportedly, the action to discontinue Instagram’s live shopping feature will be implemented from March 16 onwards. Instagram wrote on its support page, […]
The “outbreak” of the Marburg virus has reportedly caused the deaths of nine people in Equatorial Guinea, according to the country’s health minister and the WHO. The hemorrhagic fever has a mortality rate that is almost identical to that of Ebola. According to the country’s health minister, Equatorial Guinea has verified it’s first-ever outbreak of […]
The heads of state in the region have demanded that all parties to the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo immediately stop fighting. As Congo and its neighboring country, Rwanda, accuse each other of helping armed rebels, tensions are rising in the area, and people are talking about going to […]
One of the richest men in Asia, Gautam Adani, received an investment from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Royals in a share sale. The Adani Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate founded by Gautam Adani, received a $ 400 million (Rs 3,260 crore) investment from Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Co. Adani has faced losses of $65 […]
Tech billionaire Elon Musk owns five companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, The Boring Company and Neuralink. He reportedly works all day long to run these five companies. He has announced on Twitter that he works all day long. He wrote on Twitter, “I work all day, then go home & play work simulator.” He repeatedly […]
Two separate attacks by armed assailants in Burkina Faso have resulted in the deaths of at least 28 individuals, including troops and civilians, according to separate statements released by a provincial governor and the army. The army said on Monday that an attack took place on a fighting unit in Falagountou, which is in the […]
Albert Arnold Gore Jr, an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist, talked about climate-related issues. However, are his claims about climate action true? Albert Arnold Gore Jr served as the 45th vice president of the United States under President Bill Clinton. During the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos, Switzerland, Al Gore slammed the […]
Meta Platforms Inc’s social media applications, including Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger were down for thousands of users in the United States (US) on Wednesday. According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, thousands of people complained of the outage in the US. Some people also complained about the outage in Canada. In the US, over […]
The main opposition party in Tanzania recently organized its first big rally since the ban in 2016, which has stoked hopes for increased political freedom in the East African nation. This month, President Samia Suluhu Hassan lifted the ban on Chadema that was put on the country by her more conservative successor, John Magufuli, who […]
After a string of attacks that are believed to have been carried out by a local armed group, peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo uncovered mass graves containing the bodies of 49 civilians. The graves were discovered in two villages located in the northeastern part of the Ituri province, around 30 kilometers (19 […]