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Cameroon aims to boost export revenues, rejoin AGOA - minister

Cameroon is working to boost export revenues to fend off a potential debt crisis and has relaunched talks with the U.S. to rejoin Washington's flagship trade initiative with Africa, its economy minister said on Monday.

Reuters

Italian coastguard in rescue of two fishing boats carrying 1,200 people

Operation comes as attempted crossings of Mediterranean from north Africa surge over weekend

The Guardian - UK

Israel Adesanya: If Dricus Du Plessis keeps winning, ‘I will gladly drag his carcass across South Africa’

"I pray to god he keeps winning, I will gladly drag his carcass across South Africa."

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African film-makers reimagine folktales as dark fantasy dramas for Netflix

The six films include the tale of an ogre who preys on women, a sci-fi Nigeria taken over by AI, and a girl on a mission to end drought

The Guardian - UK

US Scrambles to Trace Source of Highly Classified Intel Leak

Classified documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine's air defenses to Israel's Mossad spy agency, have US officials scrambling to identify the leak's source, with some experts saying it could be an American. Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents, which touch on the war…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Africa's energy sector will need to transform radically - these are the five biggest challenges

The future of Africa’s energy sector is getting increasing attention from policymakers and the private sector. As demand for energy rises, current energy systems must grow rapidly to meet it. This must be done in reliable, resilient and affordable ways – while “staying the course” of climate compatibility and ensuring…

The Conversation

Care for Africa founder Diana Butler working on template for sustainable development

Launceston nurse and charity founder Diana Butler is busy taking the model for sustainable development she helped create in Tanzania to the world.

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At least 20 dead as northern spring relaunches Europe’s migrant armadas

Fresh waves of African asylum seekers are attempting to reach Europe, with the perilous journey already claiming lives on the high seas

The New Daily

At Least 20 Migrants Missing after a Boat Sinks off Tunisia

At least 20 African migrants were missing on Saturday after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said, amidst a sharp rise in migrant boats from the North African country. The coast guard rescued 17 others off the southern city…

Asharq Al-Awsat

In Africa's Okavango, oil drilling disrupts locals, nature

In Africa's Okavango delta, drilling for oil exploration, as well as human-caused climate change leading to more erratic rainfall patterns and water abstraction and diversion for development and commercial agriculture, has altered the landscape that so many people and wildlife species rely on

The Independent UK

Fears grow for 'remarkable' osprey Mrs G as it fails to return to UK

'Grandmother' to 130 grand-chicks from two decades of breeding in Snowdonia has not come back from winter home in Africa

Wales Online

Why Abe's new Asian order is now emerging

By building up the notion of the Indo-Pacific as a critical region, Shinzo Abe, the late Japanese prime minister, created a strategic framework that presaged the geopolitical and economic integration now taking place across Asia and parts of Africa. As South Asian and Middle Eastern countries merge into West Asia,…

Bangkok Post

Movie review: ‘Tori and Lokita’ a harrowing, heartbreaking tale of African immigrant life

Another modern-day, neo-realist effort from the brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (“Rosetta,” “La Promesse”) from the French-speaking region of Belgium, “Tori and Lokita” tells the heartbreaking tale of two immigrant children from Africa, 11-year-old Tori (newcomer Pablo Schils) and 16-year-old Lokita (newcomer Joely Mbundu). They pose as brother and sister…

Boston Herald

Incredible Osprey that has bred in Wales for decades and helped repopulate her breed here is missing

Mrs G has hatched 52 eggs in two decades of breeding in Wales but has not yet returned from her winter home in Africa

Wales Online

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LiveScience

Benin Bronzes were crafted of metal from a completely unexpected place

The Benin Bronzes were made from rings used to purchase slaves in Africa. Now, scientists have found that most of the metal was mined in western Germany.

Los Angeles Times

A once reluctant Harris embraces her biracial identity in Africa

LUSAKA, Zambia — Crowds of locals packed onto balconies and cheered as Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade pulled onto a manicured, palm-tree lined driveway, near where she had visited her grandfather in the late 1960s. But something wasn't quite right.

The Independent UK

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The Week

Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers review: a display of ‘redemptive’ works

It took both ingenuity and courage for African Americans to become artists in the Jim Crow-era Deep South, said Maya Jaggi in the FT. The region’s black inhabitants typically received no education beyond primary level and were limited to low-paid jobs, making materials like oil paint all but unaffordable. Since…

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The Independent UK

Pilot forced to make emergency landing after finding deadly snake under seat

A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat

The Independent UK

Snake on a plane! South African pilot finds cobra under seat

A pilot in South Africa made a hasty emergency landing after discovering a highly venomous cobra hiding under his seat

Los Angeles Times

Want the real Afrobeats experience? For many Black Angelenos, that means a trip to Africa

LOS ANGELES — The first thing Dee Williams noticed was that it felt like home.

Tribune News Service

More than 34 million could face hunger by June in West Africa, IRC says

More than 34 million people across West Africa’s Sahel region could face hunger by June as conflict, climate change and economic turmoil following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has deepened a humanitarian crisis, the International Rescue Committee said.

France 24

South Africa lifts 'state of disaster' over power crisis

In tonight's edition: South Africa rolls back a state of disaster over a national power crisis, even though rolling blackouts are still crippling the country's economy. Also, the WTO says goods exports are declining in Africa even though the continent has absorbed the shocks from Covid and the war in…

The Guardian - UK

Benin bronzes made from metal mined in west Germany, study finds

Brass used for west African artworks was acquired from manilla bracelets, the grim currency of the slave trade

The Guardian - UK

Snake on a plane forces South African pilot to make emergency landing

Rudolph Erasmus praised for ‘great airmanship’ after discovery of deadly cobra in cockpit of private plane

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