Etiket: Africa
Why municipal elections in South Africa are another wake-up call for the ANC
Unemployment, corruption and repeated crises have come to take hold of the stranglehold that the African National Congress (ANC) has had on South African politics since the end of apartheid…
21st Lights of Africa festival with France Bleu Besançon
A total of 15 countries represented with 13 feature films, 11 short feature films and 10 documentaries screened in 26 screenings. An extraordinary edition, without competition, without a jury, without…
South Africa | Worst ANC electoral score, below 50% in municipal elections
(Johannesburg) The party in power in South Africa since the end of apartheid, the ANC, recorded its worst score, falling for the first time below 50% in a ballot, in…
Malaria vaccine sparks hope in Africa
Abidjan | “It will be a great relief”: the recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) to deploy a vaccine against malaria raises hopes in sub-Saharan Africa, the continent most…
South Africa | Fossils relaunch the enigma of distant cousins of man
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Maropeng) The discovery of fossils of a child’s skull in a cave in South Africa, announced Thursday by researchers, relaunches the enigma around…
a youth cure for the Blues against South Africa
Les Bleues start their autumn tour with an opening match against South Africa, in Vannes, on Saturday (3 p.m.). Article written by Posted the 04/11/2021 15:58 Update the 04/11/2021 16:02…
Africa: Ethiopia declares state of emergency amid renewed violence in the north
The Ethiopian government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency across the country, which is seeing renewed fighting after Tigrayan rebels over the weekend claimed responsibility for the capture of…
in South Africa, NGOs at war with coal-fired power plants
Breaking out of dependence on coal is a crucial issue for South Africa. In the country, more than 80% of electricity is produced using coal. With the COP26 which is…
Africa: gold smells of sulfur in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
We call ourselves bandits, we denounce the mafias, we demand compensation, an advisor suddenly resigns … Gold smells of sulfur in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic…
“One vote, one vaccine” | South Africa in the electoral and vaccination campaign
(Soweto) One vote, one vaccine: South Africa, late in its COVID-19 immunization campaign, took advantage of local elections on Monday to inoculate doses in ephemeral clinics set up near polling…
help Africa adopt a low carbon development model
Africa today contributes only 4% of greenhouse gases, but this figure is set to increase sharply if the continent does not quickly opt for a strategy based on solar and…
Municipal elections in South Africa, the ANC, Mandela’s party in turmoil
Corruption, the coronavirus epidemic (nearly 90,000 deaths to date), endemic unemployment, repeated power cuts, nothing is working in the Rainbow country, and the ANC (African National Congress ), President Cyril…
Africa: the Sudanese continue to stand up to the army
Sudanese hostile to the coup of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane maintained the barricades in Khartoum on Sunday, determined to stand up to the army when at least a dozen demonstrators…
South Africa | Oil pipeline fire kills at least three
(Johannesburg) South African state-owned freight company Transnet said it had temporarily closed a major oil pipeline in Durban, in the east of the country, on Sunday after a fire broke…
Germany and Belgium to return works of art from Africa
More and more of them are asking for it. Like Benin, which has called for the return of works from French museums, several African countries have expressed their desire to…
Charlene de Monaco stuck in South Africa: Albert finally announces his return, soon!
The sovereign brings news that is reassuring to say the least: Princess Charlene should finally return to Monaco soon. In a new interview with the magazine Point of view, an…
South Africa: suspected poacher trampled by elephant
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa | An elephant trampled to death a suspected poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a spokesperson for the famous park (northeast) said on Friday. The crushed…
South Africa dreams of being a leader in helium, a rare gas
Renergen is a South African company specializing in natural gas. The project she is carrying, Virginia gas, is located in the Free State, in the center of the country, around…
With a new tour of West Africa, Turkish President Erdogan methodically pursues his African diplomatic strategy
With around thirty diplomatic visits to the African continent since 2005, Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to woo the African continent. Methodologically pursuing his dual diplomatic and economic strategy, the Turkish…
In Africa, reported COVID-19 cases are only the tip of the iceberg
Official statistics show Africa largely untouched by the pandemic. However, six out of seven cases of COVID-19 infection go under the radar. At least that is the conclusion of the…