Tour Operator Captures Rare Sight of a Baboon Grooming a Lion Cub
Kurt Schultz, the director of Kurt Safari, said the rainy season had made it harder to spot the animals, ”It’s rainy season in Kruger and the vegetation is thick and the grass long. When the baboons move away from the road into the grass, it’s not easy to see them.” The picture caused huge interest, […]
Congo Takes the Lead in Building Sustainable Infrastructure
During her free time, Nigerian Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem controls traffic in the capital, Abuja, eight years after her son was killed in a hit-and-run accident. The 62-year-old has set up a non-profit organisation named after her late son – Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand – to educate motorists about safety and she also plans to establish […]
Mutharika Loses Court Challenge to Keep Him as President
Malawi’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out an application by President Peter Mutharika and the country’s electoral commission to suspend a landmark judgement that annulled last May’s presidential elections. “This is a public law case and the law must be cautiously applied,” said Judge Dingiswayo Madise. The court also rejected the electoral commission’s argument that […]
Shedding Light on Human Genetic Diversity in Africa
Scientists reported on Wednesday that they had discovered evidence of an extinct branch of humans whose ancestors split from our own a million years ago. The evidence of these humans was not a fossil. Instead, the researchers found pieces of their DNA in the genomes of living people from West Africa. The researchers tracked how […]
South Sudan’s Water is Killing its Future Generation
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to four environmental reports obtained by The Associated Press. The reports also describe alarming birth defects, miscarriages and other health problems among residents of the region […]
A History Lesson of Africa’s Biggest Film Industry
Back in 2004, a powerful cabal of film studios and distributors controlled Nigeria’s film industry, which was laser-focused on DVDs and videos rather than the cinematic culture common elsewhere. But even on DVD, superstars emerged, and their power threatened to overtake the era’s producers. So the studios made a bold move: They banned eight A-list […]
A Mission to Change the Image of Africa’s First Ladies
Promising to give away all her wealth – estimated at $3 million – to charity when she dies, Namibia’s Monica Geingos wants to tackle sexism and inequality in Namibia, the world’s second most unequal country. Geingos married Hage Geingob on Valentine’s Day in 2015 – a month before he was sworn in as president of […]
Khartoum’s Path to Redemption
Sudan will pay a $30 million settlement to the families of 17 US Navy sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in a bid to get itself removed from the United States’ list of state sponsors of terrorism, Sudanese officials said. Sudan’s government “explicitly denies” its involvement in the attack and says […]
Gearing for South Africa’s State of the Nation Speech
President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to deliver his much-anticipated state of the nation address (Sona) in parliament in Cape Town on Thursday. His speech comes amid ongoing load-shedding, high unemployment, troubled state-owned enterprises and poor economic growth.The EFF has defended its plans to disrupt President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, saying it formed […]
Italian Doctor Helps Tortured African Migrants
Prof Massimo Del Bene aids African migrants whose captors inflicted horrific injuries to extort ransom payments. The first patient was a young Ghanaian man who had been tortured every day for more than a year in Libya by traffickers trying to extort a ransom for his release, says Prof Massimo Del Bene, head of reconstructive […]
