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Watch Itchy Boots Climb Mountains On Her Way To The Eye Of Africa

Itchy Boots is currently making her way across northern Africa on her trusty Honda CRF300L Rally, and she's going to need it to get to the Eye of Africa.

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Fake medicines are a dangerous threat in Africa: 3 ways to spot them

At the end of a long day, you realise you’re starting to get a headache. So you buy painkillers from the street vendor, and take two. But how do you know what those pills really are? The vendor isn’t a pharmacy. There’s no package insert listing ingredients or dosage instructions.…

The Conversation

Mystery of desert ‘fairy circles’ may finally be SOLVED due to ancient knowledge

The patches of bare ground, which form circles between two and 12 metres wide and are found across Australia's deserts, were originally recorded in Africa in the 1970s, but it took scientists until now to discover where they came from

Daily Mirror

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Washington trying to wreck Russia-Africa summit -Russia's Lavrov

The U.S. is trying to wreck Russia's planned summit with African countries as part of efforts to isolate Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview published on Tuesday.

Reuters

Cotton Capital: how slavery made Manchester the world’s first industrial city

A visual exploration of historical Manchester’s rapid growth into a ‘shock city’ – and how slavery was key to the emergence of Cottonopolis

The Guardian - UK

Archaeology shows how hunter-gatherers fitted into southern Africa’s first city, 800 years ago

Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. One could easily pass it without realising its historical significance. It was on and around this hill that what appears to be southern…

The Conversation

Tanzania-South Africa: deep ties evoke Africa’s sacrifices for freedom

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan recently paid a state visit to South Africa aimed at strengthening bilateral political and trade relations. As the South African presidency noted, ties between the two nations date back to Tanzania’s solidarity with the anti-apartheid struggle.

The Conversation

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Armed groups, juntas create dangers for journalists in Sahel

Reporters Without Borders published on Monday an investigation into the colossal dangers journalists face while working in the Sahel, the vast, semi-arid region beset by jihadism, armed groups and instability. The NGO fears this part of West Africa is becoming a no-go area for journalists.

France 24

How China is winning the race for Africa’s lithium

The country already dominates processing of the metal for use in electric vehicle batteries and is now investing heavily in mines, leaving western operators scrambling to keep up

Financial Times

Harris finds new connections in Africa as historic figure

Wherever Vice President Kamala Harris went in Africa on her just-completed trip, her appearances were treated like a homecoming

The Independent UK

Nakhane: ‘I was exhausted from singing sad songs’

Nakhane’s mix of hedonistic beats and operatic vocals have made them one of South Africa’s biggest artists. They talk about their fractured childhood, conversion therapy, death threats – and making their queerest album yet

The Guardian - UK

The war on Tigray wiped out decades of environmental progress: how to start again

The Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, used to be a model for land restoration in Africa. It won multiple awards and recognition.

The Conversation

Medieval Swahilis and Persians paired up 1,000 years ago in East Africa, ancient DNA reveals

A new ancient DNA study help confirm, but also "contradict and complicate" the historical narrative that Swahilis paired up with Persians 1,000 years ago in East Africa.

LiveScience

UK spending on trying to halt the flow of refugees is a classic false economy

The government is spending five times more on refugees in the UK than it allocates in aid to Africa

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The Independent UK

Harris seeks billions for climate resilience in Africa

Vice President Kamala Harris is ending her weeklong visit to Africa with the biggest-ticket item of her journey

The Independent UK

AP-Week in Pictures: Global / March 25- March 31, 2023.

From protests in Kenya, France, India and Israel, to the visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to Africa, to the China Fashion Week in Beijing, to Ukrainian soldiers meeting their beloved ones at the station close to the frontline in Kramatorsk, this gallery highlights some of the most compelling…

The Independent UK

Harris visits site of grandfather's old home in Zambia

Vice President Kamala Harris paused Friday during a whirlwind diplomatic swing through Africa for something much more personal: A visit to the site of her maternal grandfather’s home in Lusaka, where he lived as an Indian public servant in the 1960s

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China's global influence looms over Kamala Harris trip to Africa

When US Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Zambia on Friday for the final stop of her week-long trip across Africa, she touched down at an airport that’s doubled in size and features glittering new terminals.

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AFP

Netflix, UNESCO seek breakthrough for African cinema

Paris (AFP) - It's a revenge thriller where a mother turns into a ruthless vigilante, tracking down and drowning a soldier who has killed her baby, in an explosion of violence and jubilation.

Daily Mirror

Missing Brit girl found on ship bound for Africa after disappearing for two weeks

Isobel Scott, 15, had lied to her her parents when she told them she was going to the cinema for the evening – but ended up on a ship bound for Casablanca in western Morocco

Glasgow Live

The missing Scots girl found on board Africa-bound ship two weeks after vanishing into thin air

Teenager Isobel Scott told her parents she was going to the cinema for the evening – and almost ended up on the other side of the world. It was a story that made headlines far and wide.

AFP

Wind project near S.African elephant park riles activists

Johannesburg (South Africa) (AFP) - Plans to build wind farms next to a South African national park have riled wildlife activists who worry the turbines will ruin the landscape and impact elephants.

The Independent UK

AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa

March 23-30, 2023

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China's global influence looms over Harris trip to Africa

The global rivalry between the United States and China has been a recurring backdrop during Vice President Kamala Harris’ trip to Africa

The Independent UK

Climate, coups risk African goal of silencing guns by 2030

The goal of silencing the guns in Africa this decade is being challenged by climate change, terrorism, coups and the continent's history

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