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Botswana and southern African peers that built much of their prosperity on diamonds are scrambling for alternatives as cheaper, lab-grown stones threaten their economies.Diamond-dependent Botswana is leading the way and launched a sovereign wealth fund this week to lay the “foundation for a more resilient, sustainable and diversified future beyond diamonds”.It is exploring other avenues …

Lab-grown diamonds robbing southern Africa of richesMon, 15 Sep 2025 19:48:08 GMT Read More »

Guinness World Records on Monday gave official recognition to Nigerian chef Hilda Baci in recognising her rice jollof, concocted in Lagos last Friday, as the world’s largest ever.Baci hailed the feat on X, where Guinness likewise confirmed “the largest serving of Nigerian style jollof rice — 8,780 kg” or 19,356 pounds and nine ounces.”We have …

Huge pot of Nigerian jollof rice sets Guinness recordMon, 15 Sep 2025 18:33:59 GMT Read More »

Mohamed Salah ended a quiet Premier League performance on a high note at the weekend, converting an 95th-minute penalty to snatch a 1-0 win for Liverpool at Burnley. Liverpool are the first side in Premier League history to win four consecutive games with winning goals scored in the final 10 minutes or later. The dramatic victory maintained …

African players in Europe: Subdued Salah grabs win for LiverpoolMon, 15 Sep 2025 14:35:42 GMT Read More »

South Sudan’s opposition called Monday for an armed mobilisation to carry out “regime change” in response to plans to put its leader on trial for treason and crimes against humanity.A fragile power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Riek Machar, has been unravelling for months, threatening to return the young nation to …

S.Sudan opposition calls for mobilisation of forces for ‘regime change’Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:33:10 GMT Read More »

Juliette Bie was at her sick mother’s bedside when two men barged through the door of her home in western Ivory Coast and raped her during tumultuous political unrest in 2011. Calm has returned to the west African country in the years since that post-election crisis, which killed around 3,000 people.But hundreds of survivors of sexual …

Feeling forgotten, I.Coast rape survivors seek healing togetherMon, 15 Sep 2025 05:27:56 GMT Read More »

In a cramped room with blistered walls on the edge of Harare, three sex workers sat pressed together on a frayed mattress spread across bare concrete.This was the work station for the women, who say their trade turned perilous after US President Donald Trump abruptly cut foreign health aid earlier this year.One of them, Sharon …

US cuts leave Zimbabwe sex workers scrambling for alternativesMon, 15 Sep 2025 05:24:17 GMT Read More »

Tanzania’s Alphonce Felix Simbu produced a savage dip at the line to snatch world marathon gold from Germany’s Amanal Petros in Tokyo on Monday.Simbu and Eritrea-born Petros were both clocked at 2hr 09min 48sec in the most dramatic of endings for the longest event of the world championships in the Japanese capital, the Tanzanian adjudged to …

First-ever Tanzanian gold as Simbu dips past Petros in world marathonMon, 15 Sep 2025 02:50:01 GMT Read More »

A crowd streamed out of a major Dakar cinema on a recent Tuesday night after watching Senegal’s movie of the summer: a book adaptation with no special effects or Hollywood stars that nonetheless has taken box offices by storm.Director Angele Diabang’s film “So Long a Letter”, a film based on one of Senegal’s best-known novels, …

‘So Long a Letter’: Angele Diabang’s Hollywood-defying Senegalese hitSun, 14 Sep 2025 05:35:31 GMT Read More »

Surrounded by incubators, a red tube snaking into her tiny nose, four-day-old Grace-Ella is being fed donated breastmilk at the only facility in Kenya that offers the life-giving service.The breastmilk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital is one of very few across sub-Saharan Africa, and is especially helpful for premature babies, of which roughly 134,000 are …

Kenya’s only breastmilk bank, life-line for premature babiesSun, 14 Sep 2025 05:23:14 GMT Read More »

Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir produced a dramatic, lung-busting final 100m sprint to outpace Ethiopa’s Tigst Assefa for gold in the women’s marathon at the world championships in Tokyo on Sunday.The pair were neck-and-neck coming into the National Stadium after 41km run around the streets of Tokyo, the pace acclerating all the time.Jepchirchir, grimacing, tried to pull away, but …

Kenya’s Jepchirchir outsprints Assefa for world marathon goldSun, 14 Sep 2025 01:48:40 GMT Read More »