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What beauty parlours reveal about Somali women
Posted on Saturday May 21, 2022

Somali women are usually expected to cover up and keep quiet - beauty parlours are a welcome relief.

Nigeria: Four die in Lagos Island building collapse
Posted on Sunday May 22, 2022

Four people die after a three-storey building collapsed in an upmarket area of Lagos.

Nigeria's facial scars: The last generation
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

The marks were a way of identifying the lineage of people, but the practice has been outlawed.

Confederation Cup: RS Berkane win shoot-out to lift trophy
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

Moroccans RS Berkane win their second Confederation Cup final in two years after beating Orlando Pirates on penalties.

Monkeypox: Do we need to be worried about it?
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

BBC Africa's Jameisha Prescod breaks down what we know about this rare disease.

World Championships: Success for African women boxers
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

Five African fighters are heading home from the Women's Boxing World Championships with medals after the event in Turkey.

UK-Rwanda asylum seekers' deal: Good news for Kigali hotels
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

The controversial deal to send migrants from the UK to Rwanda is good news for its hospitality business.

Burkina Faso trapped miners: Wives heartbroken but praying for miracles
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

A month after a zinc mine was flooded in Burkina Faso, relatives of those trapped refuse to give up.

Kenya's election 2022: Rigathi Gachagua and Martha Karua chosen as running mates
Posted on Tuesday May 17, 2022

Kenya's leading presidential candidates have chosen running mates from the biggest ethnic group.

Ukraine crisis: Can Africa replace Russian gas supplies to Europe?
Posted on Sunday May 15, 2022

Europe is desperately seeking alternative sources of gas after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud: Who is Somalia's new leader?
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022

He has made history, becoming the country's president for the second time in a competitive vote.

Nigeria's Sokoto student killing sparks spread of fake news
Posted on Sunday May 15, 2022

The killing of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy triggers a wave of disinformation on social media.

East Africa drought: 'The suffering here has no equal'
Posted on Saturday May 14, 2022

Some 20 million people face severe hunger but aid agencies say the world's attention is on Ukraine.

Afrocentrism: The school teaching kids to love their African culture
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

The Children in Freedom School in Kenya is teaching its students to love their identity as Africans.

Burkina Faso: search for eight miners 700m deep
Posted on Wednesday May 18, 2022

They have been trapped in a zinc mine for the last month is still ongoing.

Sabrina Dhowre Elba: 'We need to be more of an international community'
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022

Sabrina Dhowre Elba visits Somalia and Kenya on behalf of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Netflix's Young, Famous & African creator on African success
Posted on Friday May 13, 2022

The co-creator of the Netflix show Young, Famous & African spoke to us about the show's success.

Somalia elections 2022: Why are they important?
Posted on Saturday May 14, 2022

This Sunday, Somalia will hold its long-awaited presidential elections. But why is it significant?

Somalia's first female pilot: 'People thought it was a man flying the plane'
Posted on Friday May 13, 2022

Asli Hassan Abade made history in 1976 by becoming the first female military pilot in Somalia and in Africa.

Who really discovered Tutankhamun's tomb?
Posted on Wednesday May 11, 2022

On 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, we explore the forgotten Egyptians that were there.


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Businessinsider.co.za | African journalists condemn media outlets for using images of Black people in coverage of US, UK monkeypox
Posted on Sunday May 22, 2022

Africa's foreign press body said using images of Black people in reports on the monkeypox outbreak in the UK and US perpetuates negative stereotypes.

News24.com | Botswana President Masisi's jet in emergency landing after airport fire
Posted on Saturday May 21, 2022

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi's jet was on Friday allowed a safe landing at Geneva Airport in Switzerland, moments before closure due to a fire in a nearby building.

News24.com | Talk to us: How does the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit termination affect you?
Posted on Monday May 16, 2022

Are you affected by the decision by government to terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit? News24 wants to hear from you. If you would like to feature in our series highlighting the human impact of this decision, send us a mail to feedback@news24.com.

News24.com | Olusegun Obasanjo secures release of more than 4 000 prisoners of war in Tigray
Posted on Saturday May 21, 2022

Former Nigeran president Olusegun Obasanjo has secured a diplomatic victory in the Ethiopian civil war, with the transitional government of Tigray committing to release more than 4 000 prisoners of war.

News24.com | Wife says Ethiopian general arrested after criticising government
Posted on Saturday May 21, 2022

A prominent Ethiopian general who has been critical of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government was due in court on Friday after being arrested this week, his wife said.

News24.com | 'Armed men kidnap' 3 Italians and a Togolese in Mali
Posted on Saturday May 21, 2022

Armed men have kidnapped an Italian couple and their child as well as a Togolese national in southeastern Mali, a local official and a Malian security source told AFP on Friday.

News24.com | Axed Zambian high court judge faces new corruption charges
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

The Zambian Anti-Corruption drive has netted a recently fired high court judge on bribery allegations.

News24.com | US says 'Hotel Rwanda' hero 'wrongfully detained'
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

The United States said on Thursday it has determined that "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina has been "wrongfully detained" by Kigali, which handed him a 25-year prison term.

News24.com | Paying to get paid: Young Zimbabweans trade money, sex for jobs
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

Experts say a series of monumental economic mistakes has led to acute unemployment and unethical recruitment in Zimbabwe.

News24.com | Namibia goes to Europe to sell its sunshine
Posted on Friday May 20, 2022

As Europe struggles to decarbonise its economy and wean itself off Russian oil and gas, one of the world's sunniest and most arid nations is pitching itself to the continent as an answer to its problems.

News24.com | Africa contained monkeypox outbreaks during Covid-19 - Africa CDC
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

A handful of cases of the virus have now been reported or are suspected in the UK, US, Portugal and Spain.

News24.com | Taking up arms against Ethiopia last resort for survival, says Tigray's armed force
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

The civil war, coupled with climate change, disrupted food security, which resulted in more than 5.2 million people in need of food aid, according to United Nations estimates.

News24.com | Kidnappers of Nigerian college students arrested one year later - police
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

Nigerian police said they arrested two suspects behind the kidnapping of students from a Nigerian college last year, one of the most high-profile cases in a recent string of abductions of pupils.

News24.com | Africa has contained monkeypox outbreaks during Covid-19 pandemic - Africa CDC
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

Several outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa have been contained during the Covid-19 pandemic while the world's attention was elsewhere, and outbreaks in Europe and the United States are a concern, Africa's top public health agency said.

News24.com | UN slams South Africa's inability to arrest suspected Rwandan war criminal living in the country
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) has turned its focus on Fulgence Kayishema, a suspected Rwandan genocide perpetrator who it believes is in South Africa.

News24.com | From Zambia to Japan: the push for paid menstrual leave
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

Many women have painful periods, but only a handful of countries around the world, mostly in Asia, allow them to take time off work to recover.

News24.com | Mozambique detects polio case after Malawi outbreak
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

Mozambique has detected its first case of wild poliovirus in three decades, following an outbreak in neighbouring Malawi in February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday.

News24.com | Zambian central bank refuses to pay ransom to hackers
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

Zambia’s central bank said it refused to pay ransom to a group known as Hive that was behind a cybersecurity breach that caused minimal damage to its systems.

News24.com | Zim lifts lending ban as currency and stock exchange nosedive
Posted on Thursday May 19, 2022

President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially said the lending ban was motivated by the need to defend the local currency from manipulators and market indiscipline.

News24.com | Nigeria: Nine dead after explosion in Kano
Posted on Wednesday May 18, 2022

The national emergency service said the explosion in the northern city led to the collapse of a building and the deaths.

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