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Kenya satellite launch aboard SpaceX rocket boosts Africa space

Kenya launched its first ever operational Earth observation satellite, becoming the latest African nation to achieve the milestone in the continent’s nascent space industry.

Tribune News Service

Zimbabwe's aspiring female artists still 'frowned upon'

A self-portrait shows a 26-year-old artist covering her face with a yellow miner's helmet while money spills over the edge of a traditional African reed basket she holds in her lap

The Independent UK

A robot answers questions about health. Its creators just won a $2.25 million prize

At the Skoll World Forum this week, South Africa's Reach Digital Health was one of five honorees. They offer health advice via mobile phones to millions, focusing on pregnancy, babies and COVID.

WEKU

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Did Vladimir Putin really defy his arrest order to travel to South Africa? In short, nope

Did Vladimir Putin recently go to South Africa, defying the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court? That’s the claim made by at least two videos that have been shared thousands of times on TikTok and Facebook since late March. This footage, however, is old and doesn’t in any…

France 24

African journalists are dying. They need the world’s help to hold power to account

A politician being investigated for corruption in Ghana has called for me to be hanged, but with my colleagues I am determined to take on the kleptocrats

The Guardian - UK

IMF calls for ‘another Gleneagles moment’ on debt relief and aid

The Guardian - UK

DNA study opens a window into African civilisations that left a lasting legacy

Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilisations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light on some of these societies using the science of genetics.

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Six secrets uncovered by Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation

Here are the key takeaways from the investigation into Southern Africa’s biggest gold and money laundering operations.

Al Jazeera

The World Bank Is Still Failing the Poor

Poverty alleviation in the economically weakest parts of the world will require giving the poor a real seat at the table—which the World Bank has…

Foreign Policy

Ugandan activists brace for ratification of harsh anti-homosexuality bill

The president of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, recently called on Africa to "save the world from homosexuality", suggesting he would sign into law a controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill passed by parliament last month. In Uganda and abroad, activists are mounting last-ditch efforts to try and stop the legislation.

Radio France Internationale

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

April 6-13, 2023

The Independent UK

I'm A Celebrity's hardest EVER trial as show introduces horrifying new twist

The hit ITV series normally comes from Australia but for one year only there will be an extra show recorded in South Africa featuring some of the most popular and memorable contestants of the past

Daily Mirror

Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape evolution

Human evolution is tightly connected to the environment and landscape of Africa, where our ancestors first emerged.

The Conversation

Benin's Angélique Kidjo on winning the Polar Music Prize

She has been called Africa's premiere diva, one of the most inspiring women in the world and the most powerful celebrity in Africa. With more than 16 million albums sold, multi Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, global activist and educator Angélique Kidjo is now a laureate of the 2023 Polar Music…

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The Independent UK

Oxford malaria vaccine wins first approval from Ghana in ‘significant milestone’

600,000 die every year from the disease, mostly children in Africa

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Giants great Osi Umenyiora helps expand NFL Africa program

Retired New York Giants DE Osi Umenyiora has helped expand NFL Africa into Kenya with an NFL Flag football showcase.

The Guardian - UK

Ghana is first country to approve Oxford malaria vaccine

Breakthrough hailed as highly effective R21 vaccine is cleared by west African country but questions remain over funding

The Guardian - UK

The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa review – high-risk comic debut

Stephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster

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WEKU

What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

France 24

'Unprecedented’ situation as two African countries report outbreaks of Marburg virus

For the first time, the world is seeing two simultaneous outbreaks of the Marburg virus – one in Equatorial Guinea, the other in Tanzania. The Marburg virus is just as deadly as Ebola, to which it is closely related, but it has been extremely rare until now.

The Guardian - UK

Irish people sent to the Caribbean were not enslaved

Letter: Dr David Veevers highlights the important distinction between the dehumanisation of people from west Africa and the treatment of indentured labourers in the colonies

Fortune

Block partners with African crypto exchange Yellow Card

The maker of Cash App continues to double down on its investments in payment infrastructure outside the U.S.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Year Is off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Med

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…

The Independent UK

Adrift in the Atlantic, a boat of death and lost dreams

In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil

RideApart

TVS Celebrates 3 Million HLX Series Bikes Sold Throughout The World

TVS Motor Company is celebrating three million bikes sold in its HLX line, popular in 56 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

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