Has South Africa truly defeated apartheid? Essential weekend read from toe colleagues John Eligon Lynsey Chutel Lauren Leatherby Joao Silva📸
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Daddy issues in Chad ahead of the presidential election on May 6. via The Continent
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U.S. to withdraw troops from Chad, a week after announcing withdrawal from neighbouring Niger. Scoop by ⁦Eric Schmitt⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/25/us/…

🇳🇪🎸 Niger’s Tuareg rock singer Mdou Moctar in his latest album: “African leaders, hear my burning question: Why does your ear only heed France and America?” Clearly Niger’s leaders have been keen to hear a new tune since the album was recorded 🇷🇺 nytimes.com/2024/04/22/art…

Excited to have published my first short doc on #SierraLeone ’s drug crisis. Authorities declared a national emergency over the spread of #Kush which is crippling the youth. In the absence of rehab centers, I followed volunteers with my camera who help their peers get off the drug

Struggling to Sell Rights to the 32 Team Club World Cup, FIFA is Close to a First Ever Global Rights Agreement to Stream Event on Apple.

What do we think of possibility of entire 32 Team Club World Cup places behind Apple’s paywall?🍏 ⚽️

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SCOOP - U.S. to withdraw 1,000 U.S. military personnel from Niger as Russians court the West African nation's military junta to replace American advisers nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/…

Over 15k Burkinabe have fled to Ghana in the past 2 years. While Ghanaian government provides aid to thousands, Fulbe (Fulani/Peul) asylum seekers were targeted for expulsion and have been excluded from refugee registration. My latest for The New Humanitarian

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Some 1.5 million girls won’t be vaccinated against cervical cancer in countries like Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone this year because the vaccine manufacturer Merck is short of more than 10 million doses nytimes.com/2024/04/18/hea…

📷 Le World Press Photo récompense l’image d’une Palestinienne et sa nièce tuée à #Gaza

👉 Le cliché, œuvre de mohammed jad salem, photographe de l’agence Reuters, a été pris 10 jours après le début du conflit.

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They were among Gaza’s most ambitious students, and they graduated right before Israel's invasion of Gaza. Emma Bubola writes about the loss of their loved ones, their destroyed homes and the job opportunities that have vanished.
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The plight of Sudan's people is almost completely absent from a global conversation consumed by conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, neiL Munshi writes
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On Russian instructors arriving in Niger and anti-US protests supported by the military-led government there: 'The United States asked Niger to pick a side,' said a Western diplomat. “Well, now they have.”
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Life after Chibok. Ismail Alfa & Ruth Maclean on the trajectory of Saratu Dauda, who was kidnapped in 2014, fled and later reunited with her husband, a former Boko Haram fighter whom she had met in the Sambisa forest.
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Paris F.C. has opened its stadiums to all: What happens when you let people attend a professional football game for free?
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Millions of donkeys are slaughtered every year in Africa to feed growing demand for ejiao, a gelatin extracted from donkey hides to make popular snacks & traditional medicine in China. Now African governments are trying to curb the trade.
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Mati Diop’s documentary Dahomey wins top prize at Berlin film festival
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Some 20,000 gender-related killings of women, or femicide, were recorded in Africa in 2022, the highest rate in the world. “The problem is the normalization of gender-based violence and the rhetoric that, yes, women are disposable,” said Njeri Wa Migwi™ nytimes.com/2024/02/19/wor…

Senegal’s highest court has ruled that the presidential election should go as scheduled. President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone the vote is null and unconstitutional, it has ruled.
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Niamey Nights. By Rahmane Idrissa
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