France’s foreign minister on Monday vowed an immediate and strong response from Paris after Algeria revealed plans to expel more French officials from Algerian territory after a similar move last month.Relations between Algeria and France, the former colonial power in Africa’s largest nation by land area, have been beset by a series of problems in …
In the shade of a tree on a sunny day, Isac Matate set up a rickety bookstand in a ragged square that was once a beacon for the struggle that ended apartheid in South Africa.Some of the books that Matate packed into the shelves held together with rope touched on the themes of the landmark: …
Congolese director Dieudo Hamadi sees his selection on the 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury as “recognition for a career” spent chronicling the traumas of his native Democratic Republic of Congo.Across his 15-year career, Hamadi has won acclaim for his films grappling with both the DRC’s decades of conflicts and the corruption, which together form an …
Dieudo Hamadi, from DR Congo trauma to Cannes film juryMon, 12 May 2025 06:42:05 GMT Read More »
Crouching over a small wood-scrap fire in Sudan’s war-battered Darfur region, Aziza Ismail Idris stirs a pot of watery porridge — the only food her family have had for days.”No organisation has come. No water, no food — not even a biscuit for the children,” Idris told AFP, her voice brittle with fatigue.Having fled a …
Success Eduan lived up to her name by anchoring Britain to a thrilling victory in the 4x100m at the world relays in Guangzhou on Sunday as Akani Simbine led South Africa to victory in the men’s event.Eduan produced a thrilling final leg to outpace Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson and Twanisha Terry of the United States for …
Eduan, Simbine shine at world relaysSun, 11 May 2025 14:22:56 GMT Read More »
Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, the head of the top contemporary art museum in Africa and first African woman appointed to lead the Venice Biennale, has died Saturday, the Zeitz MOCAA museum said.Born in 1967, Kouoh had headed the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), in South Africa’s Cape Town, since 2019.She was chosen …
A court in Paris on Tuesday is set to hand down a verdict in the sexual assault trial of French cinema icon Gerard Depardieu, a case that gripped the country for weeks.As the ruling will coincide with the start of the Cannes Film Festival, it is likely to be among the biggest talking points on …
Verdict due Tuesday in Depardieu sexual assault trialSat, 10 May 2025 16:34:12 GMT Read More »
Journalists are facing raids and terrorism charges in Ethiopia as the media denounces a renewed “climate of fear” ahead of elections next year. There had been hopes for greater press freedom after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took power in 2018, with exiled journalists encouraged to return.But a brutal war in the Tigray region from 2020 to …
Ethiopia journalists face renewed ‘climate of fear’Sat, 10 May 2025 05:46:00 GMT Read More »
Beneath yellow fruit, hidden within the roots of the iboga plant in the forests of Gabon, lies a sacred treasure that the country is keen to make the most of.For centuries, religious devotees have eaten it — a psychotropic shrub that users say has addiction-fighting powers.It fascinates foreign visitors, psychiatric patients and rich pharmaceutical companies …
Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedySat, 10 May 2025 05:44:08 GMT Read More »
Out west, they groove with fast, evenly spaced beats. In the east, it’s more free-form and fluid.Like humans, chimpanzees drum rhythmically — and two subspecies living on opposite sides of Africa even have their own signature styles, according to a study published Friday in Current Biology.The idea that ape drumming might hold clues to the …
