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, …
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 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 …
Beatrice Chebet won the 10,000 metres world title while the cream of sprinting delighted a sellout 55,000 crowd at the world championships on Saturday — a stark contrast to the empty stadium at the Covid-affected Tokyo Games in 2021.Chebet, 25, added the world title to her Olympic crown in Paris last year where the Kenyan …
An “emotional” South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus said Saturday the death of two former Springboks this week cast a shadow over their record-breaking defeat of the All Blacks.Erasmus said his team’s preparation took a turn late in the week as he and the players learned Bevin Fortuin and Jan Boland had both died.Soon after the …
A United Nations human rights expert on Friday urged Botswana’s government to grant constitutional recognition and stronger protections to indigenous communities, citing longstanding discrimination against the San people.The San are hunter-gatherers who were evicted from their ancestral land in the Kalahari, where there are diamond deposits.They have lived in southern Africa for tens of thousands …
UN expert urges protection for indigenous Botswana peopleFri, 12 Sep 2025 15:44:38 GMT Read More »
The top UN court on Friday backed France in a long-running dispute with Equatorial Guinea over a multi-million-euro Paris mansion seized during a corruption probe into the country’s vice-president.Equatorial Guinea had asked the International Court of Justice to issue emergency orders to prevent France selling the luxury building, also seized in 2012, which boasts a …
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A South African court on Friday rejected an attempt to block the release of a Netflix documentary about a man convicted of rape and murder who faked his own death to escape prison. Thabo Bester gained global notoriety in 2023 after his arrest in Tanzania, a year after the dramatic escape from a private prison in …
South African stage legend John Kani shuffled between rows of red chairs in the 450-seat theatre named after him, searching for one in particular.”I think it’s this one,” he exclaimed, pointing at 15E near the stairs leading to the stage. “This used to be Nelson Mandela’s seat!”The actor laughed as he recalled how South Africa’s …
Guinean writer Tierno Monenembo will boycott his country’s upcoming constitutional referendum, calling the vote a “farce”. Unwaveringly critical of the authoritarian junta in power, he said he is ready to “die for his ideas”.In the lush garden of a Conakry bar he frequents, Monenembo — one of Africa’s most highly regarded Francophone writers — spoke …
