• Powerful DNC Establishment Moves Against Nina Turner, Hillary Clinton Endorses Shontel Brown
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from AFKInsider
    Nina Turner has never been shy about voicing her opinion. Now former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has given hers – she’s endorsing Shontel Brown over the former Ohio State Senator and campaign...
  • South Africa: Fossil Find Introduces a New Ancestor to the Jackal Family Tree
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [The Conversation Africa] The family Canidae is an instantly recognisable group of carnivores that includes dogs, wolves, jackals and foxes. It originated more than 35 million years ago in North America and migrated to the rest of the...
  • Mapped: The hotspots for the Delta variant of Covid-19 in the UK
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa and Indian Ocean news, all the latest and breaking African news
  • Africa's week in pictures: 11-17 June 2021
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    A selection of the week's best photos of Africans from across the continent and elsewhere.
  • Nigeria: Okagbare - Now, I Am Ready for Tokyo Olympics
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [This Day] After scorching to her eighth national sprint title with an incredible 10.63secs yesterday, Blessing Okagbare has announced her readiness to battle for a silverware at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games next month.
  • Watch: Huge spider web blankets bushland in Australia
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa and Indian Ocean news, all the latest and breaking African news
  • Nintendo Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda celebrates Link's 35 year anniversary - Pocket-lint
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    Nintendo Game & Watch: The Legend of Zelda celebrates Link's 35 year anniversary    Pocket-lint Nintendo Says There's A Reason It's Keeping Breath of the Wild 2's Name a Secret    IGN Africa Sequel to The Legend of...
  • EU: Protect Lives on Central Mediterranean Route
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa
    Click to expand Image Migrants and refugees on an overcrowded rubber boat during a rescue by the Spanish NGO Open Arms in the Mediterranean Sea, Feb. 12, 2021. © AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin (Milan) – European Union governments have a...
  • Zambia: Govt Declares Three Weeks of Mourning for Founding Father Kaunda
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [DW] Zambia's charismatic state founder was respected worldwide. But his people suffered from corruption, poverty and an authoritarian one-party regime. The authorities declared three weeks of mourning.
  • Africa: Over 30 Million Covid-19 Vaccinations Administered Across Continent
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [allAfrica] As of June 18, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 5,131,085 while over 30,803,242 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.
  • Kenneth Kaunda: Zambia's first president dies aged 97
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    Kaunda, 97, was one of the last of the generation of African leaders who fought colonialism.
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Sparks Controversy in Online Essay
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from NYT > Africa
    The novelist’s remarks went viral after she criticized former students as well as “social-media-savvy people who are choking on sanctimony and lacking in compassion.”
  • Laurent Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast after 10 years
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    In tonight's edition: Thousands of Ivorians turn out to cheer on former president Laurent Gbagbo as he returns from a decade in exile. He spent much of that time facing war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court before being...
  • Africa: Covid-19 Cases Surge in Africa, Near First Wave Peak
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Africa Renewal] A lack of adherence to transmission prevention measures has fuelled the new surge that coincides with colder seasonal weather in southern Africa and as more contagious variants spread.
  • Inside Tigray: 'I walked three days to find a hospital'
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    People's lives in northern Ethiopia are in tatters as they deal with famine in the ruins of a war zone.
  • Nigeria: Gunmen Kidnap Students, Staff at School in Kebbi State
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Premium Times] The bandits came to the college on motorcycles reportedly entered the town from neighbouring Rijau forest in Niger State.
  • 'Mshini' gets huge CAF Champions League boost from 'Computer' - Kaizer Chiefs
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    'Mshini' gets huge CAF Champions League boost from 'Computer'    Kaizer Chiefs View Full coverage on Google News
  • ‘It’s not easy’: seven working parents around the world – photo essay
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa | The Guardian
    Photographers Linda Bournane Engelberth and Valentina Sinis document the lives of working parents from Botswana to the UK for Unicef If investing in family-friendly policies is good for business, then many companies are missing a trick....
  • Wednesday morning UK news briefing: Ministers set to be told to halt Covid jabs for children
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa and Indian Ocean news, all the latest and breaking African news
  • Ghana: Drop Charges Against LGBT Rights Defenders - Human Rights Watch
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [HRW] Johannesburg -- Surge in State-Sponsored Harassment
  • Zambia: Kaunda - The Last Giant of African Nationalism and Benign Autocrat Left a Mixed Legacy
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [The Conversation Africa] Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, who has died in hospital in the capital, Lusaka, at the age of 97, was the last of the giants of 20th century African nationalism. He was also one of the few to...
  • Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda dies aged 97
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's founding president who led his country for 27 years and championed Africa's struggles against apartheid and HIV/AIDS, has died at the age of 97.
  • Kenneth Kaunda, Patriarch of African Independence, Is Dead at 97
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from NYT > Africa
    As Zambia’s first president, he dominated his country, outliving many of the other frontline leaders who had sponsored southern Africa’s guerrilla wars.
  • The return of Laurent Gbagbo: Is Ivory Coast ready for reconciliation?
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    His supporters had been waiting ten years for this day. Laurent Gbagbo basked in a hero's welcome for his grand return to Abidjan. It took a brief rekindling of Ivory Coast's civil war to force out the former president when he refused to...
  • When will over-18s be offered their Covid vaccine? Latest news on the rollout
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa and Indian Ocean news, all the latest and breaking African news
  • Astronauts conduct spacewalk to install solar arrays on ISS - Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    Astronauts conduct spacewalk to install solar arrays on ISS    Click On Detroit | Local 4 | WDIV
  • SAPS K9 unit officer killed in uMlazi - IOL
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    SAPS K9 unit officer killed in uMlazi    IOL View Full coverage on Google News
  • Tanzania: Ruling Party Dismisses Latest Calls for Constitutional Change
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [East African] Tanzania's ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), has dismissed fresh calls for amendments to the country's constitution.
  • Desert libraries in Mauritania: Treasures in need of protection
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    Remarkable treasures lie dormant in Mauritania. Thousands of manuscripts and books dating back to the 12th and 13th century are housed in libraries in the city of Chinguetti, the site of an ancient trading route. These ancient books were...
  • Biden goes head to head with Putin as tensions rise between U.S. and Russia
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa - Los Angeles Times
    The two leaders, veterans on the global political stage, meet in Geneva with the relations between their countries arguably at their worst in decades.
  • Best-Selling Author Sanyika Shakur AKA ‘Monster’ Kody Scott Passes Away At 57: 6 Things To Know
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from AFKInsider
    Best-selling author Sanyika Shakur, formerly known as ‘Monster’ Kody Scott, has died. The former L.A. Crip turned motivational speaker was found dead in his tent at a homeless encampment in Oceanside, California on June 7,...
  • MultiChoice: We won’t add SABC TV licences to DStv bills - News24
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    MultiChoice: We won’t add SABC TV licences to DStv bills    News24
  • ‘Glad to return to Ivory Coast,’ says Gbagbo after much-awaited homecoming
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo returned home to Abidjan on Thursday, nearly a decade after he was ousted from power and sent to The Hague to face war crimes charges of which he was later acquitted. Read our live blog below...
  • ICC: New Prosecutor Takes Up Mandate
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa
    Click to expand Image Permanent premises of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Netherlands. © 2018 Marina Riera/Human Rights Watch (The Hague) – The new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should seize...
  • Stanley Eguma: Nigerian league's longest serving coach abducted
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    Rivers United boss Stanley Eguma, the longest serving coach in the Nigerian Professional Football League, has been abducted.
  • Ivory Coast’s Laurent Gbagbo: A political fighter who won’t quit
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from Africa – France 24 - International News 24/7
    Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo, acquitted in March of charges of crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC), arrives home in Abidjan on Thursday. Arrested in April 2011 during a post-presidential...
  • Why what's happening in Ethiopia matters for Africa
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    Famine conditions and insecurity in Tigray as well as upcoming elections affect the future of Ethiopia.
  • Ethiopia: AU Launches Investigation Into Tigray Atrocities
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Nation] The African Union (AU) has launched an inquiry into human rights violations in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, becoming the first continental effort to investigate the conflict that began in November 4 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...
  • Africa: Prioritize Education to Safeguard Children’s Rights
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa
    Click to expand Image “Angela,” 20, walks with her son near her home after returning from school in Migori county, western Kenya. She is a Form 4 student at a girls-only school. Angela became pregnant when her trainee teacher offered to...
  • Covid-19: SA breaches 58 000 deaths, stricter lockdown restrictions imposed - News24
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    Covid-19: SA breaches 58 000 deaths, stricter lockdown restrictions imposed    News24 LIVE FEED: President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Covid-19    Independent Online SA records 157 new Covid-19 deaths and...
  • Ethiopia election: A sham or democratic rebirth?
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from BBC News - Africa
    Why the stakes are so high in the nation's first attempt at free and fair elections.
  • Africa: Ethiopia Calls On AU to Stop Commission of Inquiry On Rights Abuse in Tigray
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ethiopia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is "regrettable to note that the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights made a unilateral announcement on the establishment of a "Commission of...
  • Spacewalk to Install New International Space Station Solar Arrays - NASA
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    Spacewalk to Install New International Space Station Solar Arrays    NASA Watch astronauts install new space station solar arrays in a spacewalk today    Space.com Astronauts to set out on spacewalk to install new...
  • Botswana: Kenneth Kaunda Death - Botswana President Masisi Declares 7-Day Mourning
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [East African] Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has declared a seven-day mourning period following the death of Zambia's founding President Kenneth Kaunda.
  • Sierra Leone: Covid-19 - Govt Confirms Third Wave, Toughens Measures
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Nation] Sierra Leone has reintroduced restrictive measures to curb the spread of Covid-19 after announcing a third wave of infections.
  • Angélique Kidjo Connects With Africa’s Next Musical Generation
    Thursday, June 17, 2021 from NYT > Africa
    The artist from Benin showed African songwriters how to reach the world. Now they’re repaying the favor.
  • Kenya: Inmates Win Again As Court Rejects AG's Petition On Sentencing Guideline
    Friday, June 18, 2021 from AllAfrica News: Latest
    [Nation] The High Court has dismissed a request by the Attorney-General to suspend a judgment that shortened the jail terms of prisoners who first spent time in remand before being sentenced.
  • Progress on Domestic Workers’ Rights, but Gaps Remain
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa
    June 16 marks 10 years since the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted a groundbreaking treaty establishing global labor standards to protect domestic workers’ rights. In that time, 32 countries have joined and dozens have...
  • Armenia: Malicious Prosecution of Activist
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Africa
    (Yerevan) – Armenian authorities have persisted with spurious criminal incitement charges against a human rights activist, Sashik Sultanyan, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges are in retaliation for an online interview Sultanyan...
  • No jab no job: Ministers to make Covid vaccines mandatory for care home staff - The London Economic
    Wednesday, June 16, 2021 from Top Stories - Google News
    No jab no job: Ministers to make Covid vaccines mandatory for care home staff    The London Economic People aged 21 and 22 able to book Covid vaccine from TODAY as 972,000 to receive texts inviting them to...    The...
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