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Sat comfortably in a large chair at the New Afrika Shrine, his family’s legendary Nigerian music venue, Femi Kuti was surrounded by history.The concert hall is an homage to his father Fela Kuti’s original Shrine, which had also been located in the northern outskirts of Lagos before its demise. Femi’s own music awards are scattered around, …

Nigerian Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti takes a look inwardMon, 21 Apr 2025 05:47:02 GMT Read More »

Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, vibrancy and colours of Brazil’s Rio Carnival to the streets of Lagos in Nigeria.The festival, albeit on a smaller scale than that of its Brazilian model, helps to keep their heritage alive and celebrate the city’s Afro-Brazilian …

Afro-Brazilian carnival celebrates cultural kinship in LagosMon, 21 Apr 2025 00:22:25 GMT Read More »

The Democratic Republic of Congo government said it had suspended the political party of former president Joseph Kabila, days after his properties were raided by security services.”This decision follows the overt activism” of Kabila, the interior ministry said in a statement dated Saturday.Kabila was president for 18 years up to 2019 and remains head of …

DR Congo authorities suspend party of ex-president KabilaSun, 20 Apr 2025 20:59:54 GMT Read More »

Qatar’s chief negotiator voiced frustration over talks for a truce in Gaza in an interview with AFP, a month after Israel resumed its strikes on the Palestinian territory and another round of negotiations ended without a deal.”We’re definitely frustrated by the slowness, sometimes, of the process in the negotiation. This is an urgent matter. There …

Qatar’s chief negotiator says ‘frustrated’ by pace of Gaza talksSun, 20 Apr 2025 08:34:41 GMT Read More »

For a week, eight-year-old Mohamed has suffered the pain of shrapnel stuck in his arm. But he is one of the lucky ones in Sudan’s western city El-Fasher, which is under paramilitary attack.”One of our neighbours used to be a nurse. She helped us stop the bleeding,” Mohamed’s father, Issa Said, 27, told AFP via …

Neighbours improvise first aid for wounded in besieged Sudan citySun, 20 Apr 2025 03:23:10 GMT Read More »

The mayor of the DR Congo town near where a boat caught fire earlier this week told AFP on Saturday that at least 33 people had died in the disaster, significantly fewer than previously reported.More than 200 passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River in northwest DRC on Tuesday when the …

DR Congo boat fire toll revised down to 33Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:05:46 GMT Read More »

A Tunisian court has handed down jail sentences of up to 66 years to multiple defendants, including prominent opposition figures, in a mass trial criticised by rights groups.The trial, decried by a defence lawyer as a “masquerade”, is of unprecedented scale with around 40 defendants including vocal critics of President Kais Saied.A prosecutor cited on …

Tunisia opposition figures get jail terms in mass trialSat, 19 Apr 2025 15:48:00 GMT Read More »

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese civilians, who had already endured months of famine, have fled in “disastrous conditions” after paramilitaries overran their camp in Darfur, medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Friday.”We are treating children who were literally dying of thirst on their journeys,” MSF project coordinator Marion Ramstein said from the small town …

Sudan camp assault survivors in ‘disastrous conditions’: MSFFri, 18 Apr 2025 17:48:45 GMT Read More »

Artists, entertainers and government officials are among two dozen high-profile figures summoned by Senegal’s justice system in recent days for allegedly misusing public funds intended for the country’s Covid-19 response.The 1 trillion-CFA-franc ($1.7-billion) fund issued by the Senegalese state and donors between 2020 and 2021 was supposed to reinforce the healthcare system, support households and …

High-profile Senegalese suspected of misusing Covid-19 fundsFri, 18 Apr 2025 16:25:37 GMT Read More »