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Every cook has at least one hard-to-get ingredient that they know they can find almost anywhere they are, as long as they're persistent.For me, it's the egusi seed.Even after moving from Nigeria to the United States, I've always been able to find these off-white seeds, dried and peeled, harvested from the gourd-like fruit of a climbing vine native to West Africa.

Brisket is a classic cut of meat for the low and slow cook.Joel Villanueva/Getty Images Editor's note: Goats and Soda usually covers stories about the Global South and sometimes looks at how life there holds lessons for all of us.In this story in the Weekly Dose of Wonder series, we look at a culinary technique that had the opposite trajectory: With roots in the Americas, it has spread out around the globe.

Maryse Conde's long life and career at 86, the Guadeloupean writer has published more than 20 books has been shaped by some of the world's biggest political and cultural upheavals.And she, in turn, has played a role in interpreting those shifts.With roots in Guadeloupe, but encompassing the years she spent in Africa, Europe and North America, her work has explored the many threads of the Black diaspora always keeping the Caribbean at the center.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails As extremist violence in West Africa's Sahel region spreads south toward coastal states, the United States military has launched its annual military training exercise aimed at helping armies contain the jihadi threat.

French Armies Minister Sebastien Lecornu looks on as he leaves after the weekly cabinet meeting at the presidential Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on November 29, 2022.Emmanuel Dunand, AFP Paris' defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

01:21 (From 2nd L to R) French President Emmanuel Macron, Gabon's President Ali Bongo, Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadera at the One Forest Summit in Libreville on March 2, 2023.Ludovic Marin, AFP President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said the era of French interference in Africa was well over as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.

French president begins four-nation tour of Africa to renew frayed ties, while anti-French sentiment runs high in some former African colonies.President Emmanuel Macron has said the era of French interference in Africa was well over as he began a four-nation tour of the continent to renew frayed ties.

Football's capacity to unite is routinely lauded, but Sunday's World Cup match between England and Senegal has already divided many west African families in London.The split is generational.Parents say they tend to support Senegal, the country of their birth, while their children opt to support the state they were raised in: England.

BarcelonaCheese has a very long, storied past in Catalonia, as we wrote in the previous parts of this series.But what do the present and future of Catalan cheesemaking look like?The 21st century has seen cheesemaking flourish dramatically in Catalonia, thanks to increasing interest in and appreciation of culinary traditions and trends worldwide, not...







TripsMore than five hundred years ago, Portuguese explorers set out by ship, from their desolate shores and forever changed the world by opening up trading channels between otherwise disconnected places - Europe to India, West Africa to Brazil and beyond.

Image Donald Trump at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, after his arraignment.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Donald Trump pleaded not guilty in federal court in Miami yesterday to criminal charges that he risked disclosure of defense secrets and obstructed the government's efforts to reclaim classified documents he took while leaving office.

More than 120 people were killed in devastating floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Rwanda, the government said on Wednesday, the highest death toll from a flood reported in a single day in the country's recent history.Entire families were killed, injured or left homeless and in desperate need of assistance.

China launched the third and final module of its space station on Monday, a significant step as the country expands its extensive scientific research outside the Earth's atmosphere.State television broadcast the launch live, showing a rocket roaring into a gray layer of clouds above Hainan Island in southernmost China, with the module aboard.

More than 100 people died, including many who were returning from a wedding ceremony, after a river boat transporting them capsized in the early hours of Monday in Nigeria, according to residents and the local police.The boat was sailing on the Niger River in the western state of Kwara, according to a police spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, who said that more than 100 people had been rescued and that the search was ongoing.

French parliament told that Wagner mercenaries follow the geo-political polices of Russian President Vladimir Putin.The French parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to formally label Russia's mercenary Wagner force a terror group as reports emerged that the United Kingdom also appears poised to designate the group a terror organisation.

France's foreign ministry is standing by its ambassador amid mounting anti-French sentiment in Burkina Faso.France is backing its ambassador in Burkina Faso despite a request by authorities there to replace him amid growing anti-French sentiment.I would like to express my support and our support for our ambassador and for all the embassy staff, who are doing a remarkable job in conditions which, as you know, are difficult, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna told LCI TV on Thursday, adding that the letter had requested a change of envoy.

MADINA WANDIFA, Senegal  Although still sweaty and tired after his long journey, the long-distance truck driver was upbeat as he watched workers unload hundreds of boxes of butter from his truck onto the pavement of a busy city street in southern Senegal.The driver, Cheikh Oumar Tamba, had only one more stop to make, just two days after loading his truck with slabs of butter in the capital, Dakar.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone One of the misimpressions people have about the world is that it's going to hell.Perhaps that's because humanity's great triumph over the last half-century huge reductions in poverty, disease and early death goes largely unacknowledged.Just about the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to lose a child, and historically, almost half of children died before reaching adulthood.

Need a gift for the dad in your life?Check out our guide to the best Father's Day gifts!They include tasty treats and kitchen tools that foodies will love.I started looking for a Father's Day gift for Jack last week, and I had so much fun browsing and coming up with ideas that I thought I'd put together a gift guide to share with you!

Learn how to make hibiscus tea with this easy 2-ingredient recipe!This flavorful drink is delicious hot or iced, and it has amazing health benefits.I make this hibiscus tea recipe at least once a week.In the winter, I enjoy it hot, the ruby red drink reviving me when the weather is cold and gray.In the summer, I crave it iced.

When I was growing up in West Africa, my school lunch boxes were mostly prepared by my Lebanese teta (grandmother), whose love for meat-free, plant-based cooking was reflected in our daily meals.It is therefore only natural that I look to her for inspiration during my stint as a stand-in for Meera Sodha's weekly column.

On a recent vacation in Careyes, Mexico, Sara Beltran scoured the beach looking for beautiful seashells for her Dezso jewelry line.And finding an unusual one, she thinks, is like discovering a great diamond.Amazing shells are hard to find, Ms. Beltran, a New York-based designer, said.You can't buy them or create them; it's a gift from Mother Nature.

Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh is set to create a timber pavilion sheltering a low circular table for next year's Serpentine Pavilion.Announced as the architect of the 22nd commission today, Ghotmeh's À table pavilion will be installed in London's Kensington Gardens in June 2023."À table is an invitation to dwell together, in the same space and around the same table," said Ghotmeh.

When it comes to Ebola, former President Bill Clinton says politicians and the media need to quit playing the blame game.Clinton, who was on the campaign trail in his home state of Arkansas, called on Sunday for politicians to stop taking to the airwaves to pin blame on others and instead work together to find solutions.

Current monkeypox trends are something to feel optimistic about.Global infection numbers have been falling since August  but why?In 2022, some 80,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 109 countries, resulting in 36 deaths.For most of these countries, this year's outbreaks were the first on record.

The French parliament has adopted a resolution calling on the European Union to formally label Russian mercenary force Wagner a "terrorist group".Published: 10 May 2023 09:08 CEST The resolution, which is non-binding and symbolic, passed with unanimous support across the political spectrum.

A view of the Wagner Group's headquarters in St. Petersburg on Oct. 31.(AP)A former commander in the Russian mercenary Wagner Group has requested asylum in Norway after fleeing Russia, a move that rights groups say could aid international investigations into alleged crimes by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

All Quiet on the Western Front, a German-language movie set on the battlefields of World War I, emerged on Thursday as the surprise front-runner for this year's British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.All Quiet, a Netflix-backed movie about the futility of war, secured 14 nominations for the awards, commonly known as the BAFTAs.

The World Health Organization has declared that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency.More than 87,000 cases were recorded in the past year, resulting in 140 deaths.Almost exactly a year after declaring the spread of mpox a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially lifted its warning following a steep fall in the number of cases.

The country discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital in December 2022 and has passed WHO's 42-day timeline.Uganda has declared the end of a nearly four-month Ebola outbreak it struggled briefly to contain but was then able to swiftly bring under control despite the absence of a proven vaccine against the viral strain in question.

LONDON  The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the next year while the old name is phased out.

The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist.The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used for the next year while the old name is phased out.

Relations between Paris and Ouagadougou have deteriorated sharply since the Burkinabe military seized power in a coup in October.Burkina Faso's military government has suspended France 24 broadcasts after the TV station aired an interview with the head of al-Qaeda's North African wing.The new channel this month aired the interview with Yezid Mebarek, also known as Abu Ubaydah Yusuf al-Anabi, who claimed the title of emir of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in 2020 after a French raid killed his predecessor.

France is set to become the first Western country to deliver tanks to Ukraine, the French presidency announced on Wednesday after talks between Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.Published: 5 January 2023 08:51 CET The move to supply the French-made AMX-10 RC to Ukraine a light tank model in service since the 1980s that is being phased out in the French military represents a significant shift in French military support for Ukraine.

Relations between France and former colony Burkina Faso continue to deteriorate as violence continues in the Sahel.The French foreign ministry says it received a letter from the Burkinabe authorities in December requesting the departure of France's ambassador from Burkina Faso.The French ministry's spokeswoman confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday by email that it had received such a letter, but declined to give further details or say how it had responded.

WASHINGTON An American aid worker abducted by militants more than six years ago in West Africa has been freed, his wife and a senior military official said on Monday, but the circumstances of his release were not immediately clear.The aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 and then was believed to have been taken to neighboring Mali.

Artwork from the estate of late Chicago collector and Intuit museum founding member Susann Craig will go under the hammer in March at , with many of the more than 300 paintings and other works for sale reflecting the Outsider and self-taught art Craig championed during her life.Craig, who at age 84 of breast cancer in 2021, was a prolific art collector and helped build in Chicago.

Guinness won't make its Chicago dream come true this year by opening its brewpub in time for St. Patrick's Day.But opening a new restaurant in the summer in Chicago isn't a bad consultation prize.The brewpub, announced in September 2021, is coming along at the corner of Kinzie and Morgan, a three-minute walk north of Randolph Restaurant Row in a mostly industrial part of the West Loop where places like Recess and Tabu have found a home.

Kristina Jamgochian was unlocking the door to Design Emporium and Antiques, her shop in Kensington, on the morning of January 5 when she noticed something alarming: Murphy, her huge metal gorilla, was gone."I just kept staring at the space like it was magically going to reappear," Jamgochian says.

Ex-Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu is in hospital in Zambia after falling unwell, his former club says.The 25-year-old was forced to retire from football in October because of a hereditary heart condition.said he had suffered a suspected heart attack on Sunday while driving and was seen to fall after parking his car.

The football training programme is being supported by UNESCO and has piloted in three countries including Ivory Coast.Children at primary schools in the Ivorian commercial capital Abidjan traded classrooms for football fields last week to take part in a FIFA initiative to make the sport more accessible and contribute to education.

Before the banjo, the instrument at the heart of so much folk, country and bluegrass music, was the ekonting: a self-built, three-string gourd instrument with a muted but characterful tone, played by the Jola people of Senegal, the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.In 2000, ethnomusicologist Daniel Laemou-Ahuma Jatta demonstrated its uncanny similarity to early Caribbean and American instruments at a US banjo convention; alongside other west African lutes such as the ngoni, xalam and gimbri, it drives stories of survival and self-expression.

Every year the World Economic Forum (WEF) surveys more than 1,200 global risk experts, policy makers, and industry leaders to measure the weight of looming risks to global finance and stability over the next two and ten years.The WEF releases its Global Risks Report as world leaders and corporate titans convene in Davos for the annual conference to help frame the week's conversations.

Heavy rains that led to recent deadly floods in Nigeria and neighboring countries were made about 80 times more likely by human caused climate change, scientists said Wednesday.The floods, which killed more than 600 people in Nigeria and more than 200 in Niger and Chad, were the consequence of an extremely wet rainy season.

Coffee is uniquely vulnerable to climate change.It grows in tropical regions, where temperatures and rainfall are becoming increasingly erratic; it is grown by small farms, which do not have the resources available to weather the coming literal and figurative storms; and despite the fact that coffee is among the most highly traded commodities in the world, little agricultural research time or money has been devoted to it.

This list is compiled by the Guardian film team, with all films released in the UK during 2022 in contention.Check in every weekday to see our next picks, and please share your own favourite films of 2022 in the comments below.Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen directs this answer to Before Sunrise, about an archaeology student who shares a train compartment with a boorish Russian; the pair connect despite their differences.

Local Newly surfaced documents also strengthen the case that English buccaneer Henry Every - the target of the first worldwide manhunt - hid out in New England before sailing for Ireland and vanishing into the wind.WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - One tarnished silver coin at a time, the ground is yielding new evidence that in the late 1600s, one of the world's most ruthless pirates wandered the American colonies with impunity.

In Australian cities, Ethiopian and Sudanese restaurants have introduced diners to injera, that fermented flatbread wonder; while home cooks' growing familiarity with Moroccan and Egyptian cuisine means ras el hanout has its place in our globalised pantries.These food habits reflect the waves of migration over the decades  historically, Australians with African ancestry are mostly from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan.

The scenes are deep and saturated in dark tones.The film's visual language is disorienting by design.Hauntingly beautiful forms materialize to suggest the experience of being submerged in a body of water; the audience is immersed in Tanerelle 's delicately blended aquatic soundscape.Sonic echoes, running showers, and beach waves are layered with both Aisha's dreams and her reality.

Anna Diop plays a Senegalese immigrant pursuing the American Dream in Nanny.Courtesy of Prime Video There's something in the water in the new film Nanny.Over two unsettling hours, director Nikyatu Jusu submerges the audience in suffocating night terrors, blending glowing reflections of Black love with discomforting glances amongst kin.

Sierra Leone's president has defended his decision to spend almost a quarter of the national budget on education, saying the country cannot develop unless all children go to school.Speaking to the Guardian, Julius Maada Bio admitted that allocating 1.7tn leones (80m) this year for its ambitious educational reform programme was a risk, but said: We are throwing all our resources, all our energy into education.

A slender wooden parasol will unfurl in Kensington Gardens next summer in London, its radial ribs supporting an expansive, low-slung canopy beneath the trees.It is the elegant vision of Lina Ghotmeh, the Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect who has been announced as the designer of the 22nd annual Serpentine Gallery pavilion.

Nearly 10 years ago, Ken Noel was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and after undergoing several tests and procedures, he began his journey for treatment in 2013, undergoing a surgery followed by radiation treatment."It was a really big shock to me," said Noel, who immigrated to Canada from Guyana 50 years ago.

For me, fall feels incomplete without a day at Oko Farms, my dear friend Yemi Amu's sustainable aquaponic farm on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, waterfront, and the chance to get creative with whatever I bring home.So, one late September weekend, when the weather began its subtle shift from summer to fall, my 3-year-old daughter, Asa, and I spent an afternoon there.

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Roxbury is home to a wealth of great food, from one of the city's most popular Nigerian restaurants to a rare Cape Verdean cafe.Whether in the mood for a quick stop at a sub shop, a belly-warming breakfast of crispy salmon cakes and buttery grits, or live music and some of Boston's top-ranked chicken wings for dinner, Roxbury's got it all.

Music festivals are typically reserved for the summer-time, when stages crop up in parks and throngs of people camp out to see all their favourite artists in one place.Such events usually celebrate and thrive off of proximity - all of these musicians to see and things to do, all in one place.The EFG London Jazz Festival, however, celebrates jazz by spreading it all through the city for everyone to enjoy.