Wearing one of her trademark large hats and dark glasses, Nigerian designer Bubu Ogisi puts a group of models through final fittings in preparation days for Lagos Fashion Week — one of the cultural highlights in Nigeria’s economic capital.Dressed in black, white and tan creations with hand-crafted bracelets and collars, models walk by as Ogisi …
A mother guided her bawling five-year old boy across rocks close to Bambo, a town in eastern DR Congo, as mortar fire rained down nearby. It was midday on October 26 when the M23 rebels attacked the town, nestled in the hills in Rutshuru, North Kivu province.An AFP team documenting the lives of people living on …
One year after Ethiopia signed a peace deal with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, ending a brutal conflict that killed hundreds of thousands by some estimates, life in the northern region is slowly limping back to normal.But the legacy of the two-year war is everywhere in Tigray, even though fighting has ceased and access to …
Voices from Ethiopia’s war-scarred TigrayWed, 01 Nov 2023 06:37:16 GMT Read More »
An accord signed a year ago between the rivals in Ethiopia’s Tigray war has brought peace to the shattered region, but ignited yet another conflict in the increasingly fractured nation.In November 2022, Ethiopia’s federal government and the rebellious authorities of Tigray agreed in South Africa to a ceasefire after two years of bloodshed and atrocities …
Regular passengers of the “Tombouctou”, a ferry whose route runs along the Niger River in northern Mali, are accustomed to hearing gunfire from the riverbank during their journeys. But on September 7, they quickly realised that something unusual was happening. The blasts that forced passengers to hit the deck that day heralded a deluge of gunfire. It would …
Massacre on Mali’s Niger RiverWed, 01 Nov 2023 04:22:13 GMT Read More »
King Charles III on Wednesday will begin the second day of his visit to Kenya after acknowledging there was “no excuse” for colonial-era abuses during Britain’s rule of the East African country.Charles said he wished to “deepen my own understanding of these wrongs” during the four-day visit to Kenya with Queen Camilla, but also to …
King Charles III said Tuesday there could be “no excuse” for British colonial atrocities against Kenyans as he visited the country, but did not offer the apology demanded by some in the East African nation.”There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged… a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty,” …
King Charles III said Tuesday there could be “no excuse” for British colonial atrocities against Kenyans as he visited the country, but did not offer the apology demanded by some in the East African nation. “There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged… a painful struggle for independence and sovereignty,” …
Separatist rebels in northern Mali on Tuesday claimed to have taken over a camp just evacuated by the UN in the strategic town of Kidal, a significant development in an ongoing battle for territory.They occupied the camp immediately after it was vacated by the peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, a local official confirmed to AFP, speaking on …
Rebels take over Mali camp immediately after UN evacuatesTue, 31 Oct 2023 18:29:09 GMT Read More »
Footage said to show a gay man’s body being dug up from a grave and burned has shocked Senegal, triggering an investigation in the conservative country where homophobia is rife.The perpetrators arrived at a cemetery in the central city of Kaolack on Saturday evening searching for the grave of a man buried the day before, …
