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Hundreds of Catholic faithful in the South Sudan capital Juba returned to Mass on Sunday, nearly five months after the government suspended religious, social and… Read More »Congregants Welcome the Reopening of Churches in Juba
From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia. But extreme… Read More »Africa’s Heritage Sites Destroyed due to a Changing Climate
BGI Group’s new facility is the first coronavirus test production facility in Ethiopia that opened earlier this month. It is designed to be able to… Read More »Chinese Firm to Make Coronavirus Test Kits in Ethiopia
The southern African nation asked for meetings on October 20 with the holders of three Eurobonds totalling $3bn to seek consent for a standstill until… Read More »Zambia becomes First African Country to Ask Bondholders for Pandemic Relief
Humanitarian organisations – such as the World Food Programme (WFP) – are increasingly using cash transfers as a way of assisting vulnerable people. They are… Read More »Cash Transfers Give African Refugees Independence
Around 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by the… Read More »Millions of Africans Forced from their Homes Face Dual Hardship of COVID-19
Ramla Ali, a boxer who became British champion without her family’s knowledge after fleeing civil war in Somalia, has signed a professional deal with Eddie… Read More »Becoming Somalia’s First World Champion
With weeks to go before the United States presidential elections, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is racing to make a breakthrough with Sudan that… Read More »Getting Sudan Off the Terror List
Namwali Serpell has won the UK’s top prize for science fiction, the Arthur C Clarke award, for her first novel The Old Drift, which judges… Read More »‘At Last, an African Book of Unarguable Universality’
The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) has praised African states for managing to curb the spread of coronavirus. Africa has seen… Read More »Joint Continental Effort Helps Africa Weather the COVID-19 Storm