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New Sahel Confederation challenges regional order as ECOWAS seeks dialogue

The military heads of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger convened for the inaugural summit of the Confederation of the Sahel States (AES). The leaders emphasised territorial and popular sovereignty as core principles of their leadership through a new treaty. Concurrently, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is exploring…

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New Sahel Bloc Leaves West Africa More Divided Than Ever

The creation of a Sahel confederation on Saturday plunged West Africa into an unprecedented crisis that could threaten the free movement of people and goods in the region.

International Business Times

Nearly 1,000 homes in Cape Town destroyed by storms

Cape Town’s disaster coordination team has been on alert since last Thursday

The Independent UK

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Senegal’s leader wasn't born when ECOWAS was founded. He's asked to reunite the bloc split by coups

Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye, Africa’s youngest, is suddenly faced with a huge challenge of reuniting a weakened regional bloc that is older than him

The Independent UK

From pruning to reforesting – how good agricultural practices can lift cocoa communities

With environmental challenges, rising populations and a lack of crop investment, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to farm cocoa in west African countries. So how can positive changes be brought about in this area?

The Guardian - UK

A weakened West Africa bloc asks Senegalese leader to try to convince breakaway states to return

West Africa’s divided regional bloc has asked Senegal’s President Basirou Diomaye Faye to have a dialogue with the three military junta-led member states to try to reunite the region whose stability has been under threat following their decision to leave the group in January

The Independent UK

Namibia’s sodomy laws have been overturned – what that means for LGBTIQ+ rights in the country

The Namibian high court recently invalidated the country’s colonial-era “sodomy law”, which had made consensual sexual acts between men a criminal offence. The court declared that the common law offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” were unconstitutional. This ruling follows a separate decision in 2023 where Namibia’s supreme court…

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Sudanese Olympic backstroker Ziyad Saleem of Cal looks to leave his mark on Paris Games

Ziyad Saleem took his spot at the top of the podium with a backstroke gold medal for Sudan at the African Championships and cherished hearing the anthem of his parents' homeland play

The Independent UK

Military leaders of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso rule out returning to the regional block ECOWAS

The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have ruled out returning to the West Africa regional bloc whose division could further jeopardize regional efforts to revert coups and curb the violence spreading across the region

The Independent UK

James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Ecowas summit: 6 steps the leaders can take to restore stability and growth in west Africa

This year’s summit of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) takes place against a challenging environment for the regional bloc.

The Conversation

Migrants Face 'Unimaginable Horrors' Crossing Africa Says UN

Refugees and migrants face extreme violence, abuse and exploitation on land routes crossing Africa to get to the Mediterranean, with far more believed to be dying there than at sea, a UN-backed report said Friday.

International Business Times

Land routes across Africa are twice as deadly for migrants as Mediterranean voyages, UN estimates

The U.N. and partners say more migrants and refugees in Africa are heading north toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing dangerous land routes in the Sahara where criminal gangs roam subject them to enslavement, organ removal, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses

The Independent UK

Nigeria’s migration policy: lots of laws but no coherence and poor implementation

Nigeria’s migration policies are extensive on paper. Designed to address both emigration and immigration, they reflect the country’s role as a migration hub in west Africa.

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Women football players in Africa have overcome enormous barriers – new book tells the story

Women’s Football in Africa, the first in-depth book on the subject, traces the history of women’s soccer from initially being banned through to today’s growing numbers of fans and broadcasting potential. It’s a story of triumph despite enormous barriers – among them sexism, abuse, homophobia and religion. We asked its…

The Guardian - UK

Catholic and African residents targeted by paint bombs in County Antrim

PSNI treating incidents as hate crimes, as African family also describes threatening posters and smashed windows

Radio France Internationale

Africans respond to French elections with pragmatism and frustration

As the National Rally emerged victorious in France's early legislative elections on Sunday, reactions poured in from around the world. In Africa, concerns are mainly focused on immigrants living in France. However, analysts emphasise that if France opts for the far right, it may be time for Africa to make…

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HIV breakthrough: drug trial shows injection twice a year is 100% effective against infection

A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.

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UFC star Adesanya ticked off by 'real African' jibe

Two-time middleweight champion Israel Adesanya will be aiming to win back his belt when he takes on current holder Dricus du Plessis in Perth on August 18.

The Independent UK

Freya the rescued lion cub is safe in South Africa, but many other lions there are bred to be shot

A 6-month-old lion cub named Freya who was rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon has been relocated to a sanctuary in South Africa

LiveScience

Long-lost homestead of King Pompey, enslaved African who gained freedom, found in colonial New England

Archaeologists have discovered the homestead of Pompey, a formerly enslaved man from West Africa who was elected "king" by his community in the 1700s.

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South Africa’s 70,000kg rhino horn stockpile must be burnt to prevent illegal trading

Despite a global ban on international buying and selling of rhino horn since 1977, the South African government and owners of private rhino reserves continue to stockpile it. A new report by the EMS Foundation, a South African social justice and conservation organisation, advocates strongly against this practice. Ecologist and…

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South Africa’s new agricultural leadership should focus on getting things done, not designing new policies

South Africa’s primary agriculture sector accounts for nearly 3% of GDP and about 8% when considering the value of agro-processing. But it can contribute even more to economic growth that delivers benefits fairly across society and creates jobs.

International Business Times

Mauritania, Stable Outlier In Turbulent Region, Re-elects President

Mauritania's incumbent President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani has comfortably won re-election at the helm of the vast desert nation, seen as a rock of relative stability in Africa's volatile Sahel region, officials said Monday.

The Independent UK

Biniam Girmay makes history as first black African to win a Tour de France stage

Girmay, 24, won a stage of the Giro d’Italia in 2022 but this moment will carry much greater significance

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