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Namibia and South Africa's ruling parties share a heroic history - but their 2024 electoral prospects look weak

Namibian president Hage Geingob used his recent state visit to South Africa to also address a meeting of the national executive committee of the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC). This underscored the ANC’s historic ties to Namibia’s governing party, South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo).

The Conversation

China’s population has peaked and is now falling – opportunities and risks for Africa

China will no longer be the world’s most populous nation. India’s population will overtake it this year at an estimated population of 1.42 billion.

The Conversation

Infertility: The clinic in Ivory Coast helping dozens of couples have children

Africa has some of the lowest rates of infertility in the world – at just over 13 percent, according to the latest WHO figures. But unlike in the West, couples who do struggle to conceive are often shut out of fertility treatments or have to bear the considerable cost themselves.…

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Media freedom and democracy: Africans in four countries weigh up thorny questions about state control

In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara, examined the raids on villages, abductions and murders that have plagued swaths of the country. Notably, it included interviews with so-called bandits, who described their violent actions and…

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Tunisia launches investigation after several killed in shooting near synagogue

Tunisian authorities were Wednesday investigating a shooting spree by a police officer that claimed five lives and sparked mass panic during a Jewish pilgrimage at Africa's oldest synagogue.

France 24

A gun attack on an old Tunisian synagogue has killed 5 people

The number of people killed in a gun attack on a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba during an annual Jewish pilgrimage has risen to five. The motive for the attack was under investigation.

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Gunman kills three in attack near Africa’s oldest synagogue on Tunisian island

The incident came amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jewish people from Europe and Israel

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Air pollution is a hidden pandemic in Africa - tips on how to reduce your exposure and help combat it

Rapid urbanisation in Africa is worsening air pollution levels. There are economic as well as health consequences.

The Conversation

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run.

Reuters

From the Deep: an underwater kingdom for enslaved people who died in the Atlantic

The pre-Afrofuturist mythology of Drexciya is explored in an immersive and ambitious new exhibition from Ayana V Jackson

The Guardian - US

Young, Famous & African season 2: release date, trailer, cast and everything we know about the series

Young, Famous & African season 2 makes a May debut. Here’s everything we know about the new episodes.

WhatToWatch

Flooding in Nigeria is on the rise – good forecasts, drains and risk maps are urgently needed

Nigeria is one of the most flood-prone countries in west Africa. Many areas experience annual flooding. This happens during heavy rainfall and one of the reasons is poor drainage systems.

The Conversation

Remote teaching in Nigeria and South Africa got a COVID wake-up call -- how to capitalise on it

Universities had to deal with many anxieties and uncertainties during the early days of the COVID pandemic. One of these was how to move all of their teaching online. For some, the process was fairly simple as they had already been offering blended online and in-person lessons.

The Conversation

Humans may have inherited nose shape gene from Neanderthals, study suggests

A particular gene, which leads to a taller nose, could have been the product of natural selection as ancient humans adapted to cold.

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The Conversation

Children's book revolution: how East African women took on colonialism after independence

As independence from British colonial rule swept across East Africa in the early 1960s and freedom was won in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, parents and teachers worried about what their children were reading.

The Conversation

Ghana’s regions: why creating new territories has caused problems

Ghana split four administrative regions between June 2017 and February 2019 to create six new ones. The process proceeded calmly in some regions, but was so contentious in others that the government had to deploy security forces to prevent clashes. Eventually, all six regions were created. The conflicts were unexpected.…

The Guardian - UK

‘I feel very honoured’: South African soprano Pretty Yende sings at coronation

Star from small town who took up opera aged 16 becomes first African to sing solo at British coronation

The Conversation

Sudan's conflict will have a ripple effect in an unstable region - and across the world

Sudan, Africa’s third largest country by land mass, shares borders with seven countries in an unstable region. This means that Sudan’s current conflict will have economic, social and political ripple effects across a number of countries, including the Central African Republic, Egypt, Libya, Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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S African opera singer excited to perform at Charles’s coronation

The South African is set to be the first African national to sing an opera solo at a British coronation ceremony.

The Independent UK

Spain's April heat nearly impossible without climate change

Record-breaking April temperatures in Spain, Portugal and northern Africa were made 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change, a new flash study found, and would have been almost impossible in the past

The Independent UK

German chancellor supports permanent UNSC seat for Africa

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has offered support to African countries to get a permanent seat in the U

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African Communities Council SA releases report into youth violence and crime

An inquiry formed after the alleged murder of a 25-year-old young man last year has spoken with young people within the justice system to determine the issues leading a small minority down the wrong path.

The Guardian - UK

‘Not safe for us’: Sudanese in north Africa warn fleeing relatives of danger

People who sought route to Europe before fighting erupted in Khartoum have faced police brutality, torture and homelessness

France 24

Sudanese trapped in Khartoum still heading to work as fighting rages

Hundreds of thousands have been displaced by Sudan's conflict. But some civilians have also had to stay in Khartoum as war rages around them, even saying they have no choice but to still head into work. Also, Congolese communities in the country's east say that successes claimed by the East…

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