Africa
11 hours ago
Hong Kong seizes $1m worth of rhino horn at airport
Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption The haul accounts for 20% of Hong Kong’s rhino horn seizures in five years Airport…
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Tanzanian nine-year-old poet: ‘I want to show everything is possible’
Tumaini is a nine-year-old from Tanzania with big dreams and big vocabulary. The young poet first went viral after performing…
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Africa’s week in pictures: 8-14 February 2019
A selection of photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere this week: Image copyright Getty Images Image caption On…
3 days ago
Nigeria election 2019: Why are some young people not voting?
About half of the Nigerian electorate is under 35, but some say they won’t vote on 16 February. Source link
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African Champions League: Simba avenge Ahly mauling
The African Champions League final is set for the end of May Tanzania’s Simba avenged a 5-0 mauling at the…
4 days ago
How sex traffickers use black magic to force migrants into prostitution
During the height of the migrant crisis in 2016, over 11,000 Nigerian women made the journey to Italy in the…
5 days ago
The Kenyan ‘rumour app’ that reduces tensions amongst communities
John Otunga works for Sentinel, an organization that tries to build peace between different communities in Kenya’s Tana River, by…
6 days ago
Haile Selassie: Why the African Union is putting up a statue
Image caption Haile Selassie was Ethiopia’s last emperor A statue of Ethiopia’s last emperor is to be unveiled outside the…
7 days ago
Tanzania ‘witchcraft’ murders: ‘Our son was robbed of his future’
“Witchcraft” and “superstitious beliefs” are being blamed for a spate of child abductions and murders in the Njombe region of…
1 week ago
BBC journalists arrested in Uganda
Image copyright Getty Images Ugandan police have detained a team of BBC journalists in the country’s capital, Kampala. The journalists…