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3 days ago

French man, 86, issues historic apology for family's role in transatlantic slavery

An 86-year-old man issued France's first formal apology for his family's role in transatlantic slavery, urging for reparations and historical acknowledgment.
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fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago
Right-wing politics

Why have US-South Africa relations soured?

Cyril Ramaphosa criticized global right-wing forces, particularly Trump, amid deteriorating South Africa-US relations and a shift towards BRICS countries.
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago
World news

South Africa tells Israel's ambassador to leave

South Africa expelled Israel's ambassador, declaring him persona non grata for alleged diplomatic violations and ordered him to leave within 72 hours.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 weeks ago

Why have US-South Africa relations soured?

Cyril Ramaphosa criticized global right-wing forces, particularly Trump, amid deteriorating South Africa-US relations and a shift towards BRICS countries.
US Elections
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

Congo's Sassou Nguesso sworn in for fifth term

Denis Sassou Nguesso has been sworn in for a fifth term as president of the Republic of Congo, extending his nearly 42-year rule.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Justice denied: why families of apartheid victims are still searching for answers

The four men were pulled over by three white security police officers, handcuffed, and driven back towards Gqeberha. Mkonto was shot after a struggle, while the others were attacked from behind.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

South Africa appoints former apartheid-era negotiator as US ambassador

Roelf Meyer, who played a crucial role in ending white minority rule in South Africa, has been appointed as the new ambassador to the United States, indicating a shift in diplomatic strategy.
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World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

Erosion of a country's future': What has the war cost Sudan?

Sudan's civil war has led to over 40,000 deaths and extensive economic collapse, with significant infrastructure damage and millions displaced.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

Erosion of a country's future': What has the war cost Sudan?

Sudan's civil war has led to over 40,000 deaths and extensive economic collapse, with significant infrastructure damage and millions displaced.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
5 days ago

Burkina Faso dissolves more than 100 NGOs and civil society groups

Burkina Faso's military government dissolved over 100 NGOs, prompting Amnesty International to label it a severe violation of basic rights.
#senegal
World politics
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Why Africa remains divided over Macky Sall's UN bid

Burundi nominated Macky Sall for UN Secretary-General, but his bid lacks support from Senegal and many AU member states.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 week ago

Guinea-Bissau on edge after activist's killing

Vigario Luis Balanta, a critic of Guinea-Bissau's military regime, was found murdered, raising concerns about civic space and human rights in the country.
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4 weeks ago

The First Pan-African Biennale Establishes a Platform for a Decolonized, African-Led Architectural Future

The inaugural edition is organized around the central theme "Shifting the Center: From Fragility to Resilience," reclaiming African architecture's place as a site of spatial intelligence and cultural memory.
Renovation
Social justice
fromwww.independent.co.uk
3 weeks ago

What to know as Africans welcome UN vote on slavery reparations but questions remain

The U.N. resolution on trafficking of enslaved Africans calls for reparations and restitution of cultural items, widely welcomed across Africa and by advocates.
LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 month ago

South Africa was on the cutting edge of LGBTQ+ equality. Why hasn't it banned conversion therapy? - LGBTQ Nation

Conversion therapy has damaging effects on transgender individuals, and Africa's historical acceptance of queer identities contrasts sharply with current intolerance.
France politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

It's going to give us closure': could there finally be justice for the murder of Patrice Lumumba?

Patrice Lumumba's assassination symbolizes the suppression of pan-African liberation by colonial forces, with a Belgian diplomat now facing trial decades later.
World politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

UN's landmark slavery ruling energises African Union's fight for reparations

John Mahama successfully led a UN resolution declaring transatlantic chattel slavery a crime against humanity, despite opposition from several Western nations.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

It's time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slavery trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama

Ghana calls for UN recognition of transatlantic slavery as a crime against humanity and seeks reparatory justice with global support.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Niger rejects EU's call to free ousted President Bazoum

The EU resolution stated that it 'strongly condemns the continued arbitrary detention of democratically elected President Bazoum and his wife.' The EU further demanded their 'immediate and unconditional release.'
France politics
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Global Politics of Kwame Nkrumah

In the park's center is an eye-catching bronze statue of a larger-than-life Nkrumah, clad in royal kente cloth, with an outstretched hand pointing ahead and one foot in front of the other as if he were advancing forward. Erected on top of a pedestal at the spot where Nkrumah stood to declare Ghana's independence from Britain, it channels the slogan of Nkrumah's political party: 'Forward ever, backward never.'
History
Social justice
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month ago

As Senegal cracks down on homosexuality, gay people say they suffer

Senegal is intensifying criminalization of homosexuality with harsher penalties, forcing LGBTQ+ individuals into hiding and deepening persecution across Africa where over half of states already criminalize same-sex relationships.
France politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Senegal instruct lawyers, while CAF's Motsepe defends Morocco's AFCON award

Senegal's Football Federation appeals to CAS after CAF reversed their AFCON title win, awarding it to Morocco due to player walkoff during the final.
Mental health
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2 months ago

Quote of the day by Nelson Mandela: "It always seems impossible until it is done" - Silicon Canals

Perceived impossibility often reflects mental magnification and fear; reframing challenges as uncomfortable permits small initial steps that enable major life change.
France politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Ex-Belgian diplomat ordered to stand trial over murder of Congo's Lumumba

A 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat stands trial for complicity in the 1961 assassination of Congo's first prime minister Patrice Lumumba, marking the first trial related to the murder after 65 years.
SF politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Segregation': Multimillion-dollar crime wall causes uproar in S Africa

Cape Town's proposed N2 highway wall to combat crime highlights inequality, as residents lack basic services while authorities fund security infrastructure instead of housing and sanitation improvements.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

18 Senegalese detainees from AFCON final in Morocco go on hunger strike

Eighteen Senegalese football fans detained in Morocco over hooliganism during last month's Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) final have begun a hunger strike pending their trial. Lawyer Patrick Kabou said his clients told him they have been waiting to learn the charges against them since January 18, the day they were arrested after a heated AFCON final in which Senegal beat Morocco in Rabat.
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Photography
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Photographs of Mali on the Cusp of Independence

Seydou Keïta's studio portraits juxtapose ornate subjects with visible Malian soil, conveying place, identity, and a society undergoing transformation.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Our children were sold off': The South Africans sent to fight Russia's war

African men, including South Africans, were deceived into traveling to Russia for security training but were instead conscripted into paramilitary forces and sent to fight in Ukraine, with African soldiers reporting worse treatment than others on the front lines.
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Right-wing politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

South Africa summons new US ambassador over undiplomatic remarks'

South Africa summoned the US ambassador over claims of white persecution that the government denies, escalating tensions between Pretoria and Washington under Trump's administration.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

History longs to heal': how Africa hopes to advance campaign for reparative justice

The African Union declared 2025 the year of reparations and extended it through 2036, advancing a continental push for justice and redress for colonialism, slavery, and their lasting impacts.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

South Africa secures return of 11 men lured' into Russia-Ukraine war

South Africa successfully repatriated 11 men who were fraudulently recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, with diplomatic support from President Putin.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

One party state': Guinea dissolves main opposition parties

The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation issued the decree late on Friday, citing the parties' failure to meet their legal obligations. Beyond stripping them of their legal status, the order froze their assets and banned the use of their names, logos and emblems, with a government-appointed curator assigned to oversee the transfer of their holdings.
World news
Music
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award

Fela Kuti posthumously received the first Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ever given to an African, marking belated establishment recognition of the anti-establishment musician.
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1 month ago

Senegal aims to double the maximum prison sentence for homosexuality

Anyone committing an act against nature will be punished by five to 10 years' imprisonment. The bill modified the penal code to stipulate that any sexual act or act of a sexual nature between two people of the same sex constitutes an act against nature.
World politics
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 month ago

The Black Anti-Fascist Tradition Recognized Fascism Didn't Begin in Europe

White supremacist state power and violence manifest as anti-Black fascism, linking prison abolition, historical uprisings like Attica, and enduring systemic bodily and social harm.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Africa must boycott the 2026 World Cup

The continent should confront US support for Israel by boycotting major sporting events to pressure compliance with international law and end complicity in Gaza's destruction.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

South Africa's president calls Trump's policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners racist'

South African President Ramaphosa criticizes Trump's refugee policy for white Afrikaners as racist, citing Trump's false claims about white genocide and land seizure in South Africa.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Marwan Barghouti, Palestine's Mandela', to publish book from prison

A collection of writings by the imprisoned Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti will be published in November, bringing together prison letters, interviews, personal material and documents from the last three decades of Barghouti's political life and incarceration. As deadly attacks on Gaza continue despite a nominal ceasefire, the 66-year-old is seen by many as the best hope for a leader of any future Palestinian state.
World news
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Ghana takes transatlantic slavery case to UN

Ghana will table an AU-backed UN General Assembly resolution in March to recognize the transatlantic slave trade as the gravest crime against humanity.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Seven in 10 Africans are under 30 invest in them and they will change the world | Monica Geingos

For the first time in our history, more than 70% of Africans are under the age of 30. This, along with entrenched inequalities, poverty, unemployment and socioeconomic fault lines, is reshaping how our societies interact with one another and the world. This is Africa's most consequential decade. Leaders who take office over the next 10 years will have to deliver on difficult mandates within a political, economic and social landscape that has been fundamentally altered.
World news
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Sudan condemns RSF chief's visit to Uganda as minimising human values'

Sudan condemned Uganda's reception of RSF leader Mohamed Dagalo as an insult and violation of laws, amid allegations of RSF war crimes and mass displacement.
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