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[ad_1] Veteran South African gospel artist Solomon Molokoane, popularly known as Solly Moholo, has died at the age of 65, his management has announced.The award-winning music icon had been in hospital for several weeks after falling ill while on a music tour in Botswana last month.He rose to fame in the early 2000s and became a household name in South African traditional gospel music.His management said he would be fondly […]
[ad_1] There is an economic sector in Africa worth $1 trillion a year, and yet most of the people who work in it are invisible. "Farmers are the folks that you don't see," says African Development Bank Group President Akinwumi A. Adesina. "Banks don't see them. Buyers don't see them. Traders don't see them. Insurance companies don't see them." These smallholder farmers often live in remote areas with unreliable connectivity and few links to markets, leaving them with no digital footprint and […]
[ad_1] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name. When we were asked to […]
[ad_1] BBC / Kennedy GondweKariba Dam was built in a gorge between Zambia and Zimbabwe holding back the Zambezi River to create a man-made lake Despite having the mighty Zambezi River and the massive hydro-powered Kariba Dam, Zambia is currently grappling with the worst electricity blackouts in living memory.The crisis is so severe that cities and towns across the country are sometimes without electricity for three consecutive days, with people […]
[ad_1] One of the worst famines in decades could be under way in Sudan, a country in the middle of a civil war, aid workers warn.Starvation in war-stricken Sudan "is almost everywhere", the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.The BBC visited a hospital ward in Omdurman, just across the River Nile from the capital Khartoum.Filmed by: Hassan LaliEdited by: Jenna Abaakouk [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship 2024 Qualifiers draw has been scheduled on Wednesday, 09 October 2024. The draw will be conducted at 14h00 Cairo time (11h00 GMT). Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will host the tournament between 01 - 28 February 2025. Ahead of the finals, two rounds of qualifiers will take place on a home and away basis. The first round of qualifiers will be played on the weekend of 25 - 27 October and 01 - 03 […]
[ad_1] Dozens of people are feared dead after a boat capsized in north-central Nigeria.The boat was ferrying more than 300 passengers on the River Niger when it overturned on Tuesday night, said Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) head Abdullahi Baba Arah.Around 60 dead bodies have been recovered from the scene, local council chairman Abdullahi Muregi was quoted as saying by Nigerian media.Mr Arah's statement said 150 people had been […]
[ad_1] Pentagon — U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Michael Langley is starting to reshape the U.S. military presence on the continent following the U.S. military withdrawal from Niger. Uncertainty about the next phase of the counter-terror fight in West Africa stems from America's lost access to two critical counter-terror bases in Niger. In the east, international participants and troop numbers for the new African Union Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have yet to be finalized less than three months before the […]
[ad_1] Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano have started closing down sports betting shops, which they say are operating illegally.“As you know betting is forbidden in Islam,” Mujahid Aminudeen, deputy chief of the Sharia police force, known as the Hisbah, told the BBC.The crackdown was prompted by complaints from community leaders and parents, worried about the growing number of gambling addicts, he said.On the first day of raids, […]
