Thandisizwe Mgudlwa CAPE TOWN- In a move to avert a looming food crisis in Africa caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, on Wednesday this week, the President of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, made a compelling case for the United States to back the institution’s $1.5 billion emergency food production plan. […]
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Compiled by Ekeomah Atuonwu As journalists we sympathize with the families of Shireen Abu Aqla, a 51-year-old Palestinian American journalist who was shot on the field of duty. She was a veteran correspondent for Al Jazeera’s Arabic news channel and had reported on the Israel-Palestinian conflict for two decades. Still in the Middle East, President […]
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Staff writer The universe is all of space and time and their contents, including planets, stars, galaxies, and all other forms of matter and energy. (Wikipedia) The universe consisted of – normal matter, ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’. The phenomenon of black holes is more recent compared to the well known contents of the universe […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – Cape Town: Afro Nation, the world’s biggest Afrobeats Music festival, this week announced that it has partnered with APO Group, making them the exclusive Pan-African Public Relations’ Agency for Afro Nation Portugal 2022. With acts from all over the world set to perform at this would be glittering arts spectacle, including the […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa – CapeTown Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany last week on Saturday released the Third Episode of their TV program – ‘Our Africa by Merck Foundation’ on KTN, Kenya. On Sunday, May 1 it was the turn of NTV, Uganda. ‘Our Africa by Merck Foundation’ is a Pan African TV […]
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The week in focus ushered us into a new month accompanied by the May Day celebrations. On delivering his May Day speech, the South African president was interrupted as striking mineworkers stormed the stage. In a similar encounter, Ethiopian police used tear gas to disperse young worshippers in Addis Ababa during prayers marking the end of Ramadan. On 3rd of May, the world marked […]
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Thandisizwe Mgudlwa CAPE TOWN: Youth are key to building sustainable agri-food systems, that’s the message coming out of a recent conference on Youth in Agri-food Systems. The African Union Commission (AUC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have launched new guidelines for scaling up investments in agri-food systems for youth […]
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Staff writer The contentious rights to abortion as enshrined by the US federal law in the landmark case of Roe vs Wade on January 22, 1973 is likely to be struck down. The law of the land in the Court’s 1973 decision settled a constitutional right to abortion and prohibited states from banning the procedure […]
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Staff writer The late Mwai Kibaki, the 3rd President of the republic of Kenya 🇰🇪 final journey in pictures.
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The week in focus began on a sad note with the news of the death of Kenya’s only survivor former President Mwai Kibaki who passed on at the age of 90. However, the end of the week saw the funeral attended by some African presidents including Cyril Ramphosa of South Africa. Still talking about presidents, Emmanuel Macron won the second term as France […]
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