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Malawi’s ruling party claimed on Friday that it had discovered irregularities in the vote count in nearly half the country’s districts after this week’s elections, while police announced the arrests of eight data clerks for allegedly tampering with results.The 2019 presidential election was nullified because of widespread irregularities and officials in the largely poor southern …

Malawi ruling party claims tampering in vote countFri, 19 Sep 2025 23:45:55 GMT Read More »

Berlin Marathon favourite Sabastian Sawe goes into Sunday’s race vowing to honour the legacy of Kenyan countrymen Eliud Kipchoge and Kelvin Kiptum, the two fastest men in history.Running just his third marathon on Sunday, the 29-year-old pledged to carry the torch passed on from his illustrious compatriots.Speaking with AFP days out from the race, Sawe …

Kenya’s Sawe targets Berlin record to salute Kipchoge and KiptumFri, 19 Sep 2025 21:36:49 GMT Read More »

Top Malawi broadcasters halted Friday live dashboards of results from this week’s general elections, prompting a leading media rights group to condemn pressure on journalists. Observers said President Lazarus Chakwera faced losing office after Tuesday’s vote in the economically battered southern African country, but the election authority was yet to release any official figures three days …

Malawi broadcasters halt vote dashboard in results vacuumFri, 19 Sep 2025 19:00:43 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, lifeline for premature babiesFri, 19 Sep 2025 17:32:57 GMT Read More »

A group of west Africans deported from the United States have sued the government of Ghana, alleging they were sent to the country despite having deportation protection orders from US immigration authorities.The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a Ghanaian court on behalf of 11 deportees from Nigeria, Togo, Gambia, Liberia and Mali, said they have been …

West Africans deported by US to Ghana sue over detentionFri, 19 Sep 2025 16:20:09 GMT Read More »

Akinola Davies, the director of “My Father’s Shadow”, Nigeria’s first film to win an award at the Cannes film festival, is savouring his return to Lagos, the country’s cultural capital, where the movie was released Friday.”I think it’s like a homecoming that’s well deserved,” the British-Nigerian director said in an interview with AFP.The film, which …

Fresh off Cannes win, Akinola Davies imagines the future of Nigerian filmFri, 19 Sep 2025 14:36:51 GMT Read More »

A cloud of dust escapes from an excavation site in the sand of Chad’s arid north, where scientists are looking for signs of human habitation in an area once humid and called the “Green Sahara”.Kneeling, armed with a brush and trowel inside the largest rock shelter at the Gaora Hallagana site in the Ennedi West …

Tracing the ‘Green Sahara’ in Chad’s northern desertFri, 19 Sep 2025 07:38:56 GMT Read More »

Rwanda will take centre stage from Sunday as the first African country to host the cycling world championships, in its latest use of sports to improve the country’s reputation. As it prepares for 5,000 cyclists and 20,000 spectators, Rwanda has spruced up its roads, created a network of cycle lanes and run multiple police drills. A poor, …

Can Rwanda hosting a cycling championship help its image?Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:41:53 GMT Read More »

With its marbled walls, exposed lightbulbs and plentiful mirrors, the bathroom at The Library, a nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria, is practically begging patrons to snap a photo.Then it comes, a message delivered on a gold-framed sign: “No selfies in the restroom… just kidding.” In Nigeria, bathroom selfies are no joke.From the buzzing mega-city of Lagos to …

In Nigeria’s nightclubs, the bathroom selfie is king – or, rather, queenThu, 18 Sep 2025 05:41:53 GMT Read More »

Malawi counted votes Wednesday after a general election dominated by economic hardships in the largely poor country that could knock outgoing President Lazarus Chakwera’s chances of winning a second term. Observers said preliminary results from Tuesday’s vote indicated a strong showing for his predecessor and main rival Peter Mutharika, though Chakwera’s party voiced confidence in a …

Malawi counts votes in tight race for presidentWed, 17 Sep 2025 12:30:18 GMT Read More »