Prince Harry and Meghan have joined Prince William and Kate in viewing floral tributes to the late queen in Windsor. Watch the Video https://youtu.be/_mXxsPXX6Zc AMN Reporters.
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A court on Friday quashed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s suspension of South Africa’s public protector a day after she launched a probe into a burglary at his farmhouse, calling the move “improper”. The Western Cape High Court said the “hurried nature” of the suspension of Busisiwe Mkhwebane suggested it “may have been retaliatory” and thus unlawful. “The decision of the applicant to investigate the President … prompted the President not to wait a day more and to immediately suspend her,” the judges wrote. Rampahosa suspended Mkhwebane in June shortly after she sent him questions over the alleged cover up of a…
https://youtu.be/NX98mbAbrqk Credit to AFP. Around 730 children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia since January, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning the true figure could be much higher, with the country nearing famine. Millions of people are at risk of starvation across the Horn of Africa, which is in the grip of the worst drought in four decades after four failed rainy seasons wiped out livestock and crops. “Malnutrition has reached an unprecedented level,” said Wafaa Saeed, the Somalia representative for the UN children’s agency UNICEF. “Around 730 children are reported to have died in nutrition centers across the…
https://youtu.be/hM9rMWOizC0 The most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in years battered its southern region Tuesday, dumping almost a meter (3 feet) of rain, destroying roads and felling power lines, leaving 20,000 homes without electricity as thousands of people fled to safer ground. AMN Reporters.
At least one person was killed in the eastern Congolese city of Beni on Tuesday when shots were fired during another protest against the United Nations’ MONUSCO peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a police spokesperson said. In a climate of anti-UN sentiment in the country, motorcyclists pelted a column of peacekeepers’ vehicles and prevented their progress. The peacekeepers returned fire to clear a path. “Unfortunately, a stray bullet hit a driver who died,” police spokesman Nasson Murara in Beni (North Kivu, east) told AFP. An investigation is being conducted by officers of the judicial police to “identify…
“A lot of soul, a lot of funk”: this is how the jazz and Afrobeat group Kokoroko describe themselves, as they open the Jazz à La Villette festival in Paris. This American band has members coming come from New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles… so many jazz strongholds in the country where this music was born a little over a century ago. “I would actually say we never really played what people would call jazz. I think we fall under that category because it’s improvised music and there are live instruments. But if you’re a jazz purist and you…
In this episode of Business Africa: Japan wants to transform its relationship with the African continent and this new vision was presented at the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development; in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, inflation has reached a record high, resulting in an increase in the cost of living, including the price of medicines, leading to a high flow of counterfeit pharmaceuticals; and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, diamond production is falling, but the value of exports in dollar terms is going in a different direction. Japan-Africa: a redefined partnership The eighth edition of TICAD ended in…
The Portuguese prime minister and the President of the Republic of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, have expressed satisfaction with the resumption of bilateral meetings, and António Costa reaffirmed “every commitment” to continue working with that African country. These positions were taken in the opening moments of the extended meeting of the two delegations at the Fifth Luso-Moçambican Summit, at the Presidency of the Republic of Mozambique, after the two leaders had earlier met Thursday behind closed doors. On the occasion, the President of the Republic of Mozambique thanked the Prime Minister for accepting the invitation to attend the summit being held…
A migrant center on the Italian island of Lampedusa has become further overcrowded as the number of migrants arriving from North Africa as increased. The center was built for around 350 people but is now hosting around 1,400 migrants. Most migrants come from Tunisia and Libya. On Monday, more than 700 migrants arrived on the island. According to the Italian Ministry of Interior, 57,000 people have reached Italy by crossing the central Mediterranean Sea so far in 2022. Over the same period, 1,283 people either died or went missing in the attempt to cross the sea, according to the International…
The Royal Moroccan Football Federation announced on Wednesday the appointment of Walid Regragui as the new manager of the Atlas Lions. The contract with the former Wydad coach runs until 2026. “We have a big challenge, we don’t have enough time, we have to be aware that we will participate in the World Cup not to play only three matches, the players agree with that, and of course the players who will be in the stadium, so I expect a lot from them, I will trust them and I will send them the message of the supporters who are waiting…