By Rédaction Africanews with AP Scoring goals for a cervical cancer vaccine: this is the ambition of the Goal Getter Campaign. The initiative was first showcased in Tanzania and Eswatini earlier last year before moving to Zimbabwe in December, using soccer to build awareness and trust among girls in the HPV vaccine. Lesotho’s Lishoeshoe soccer club was losing by four goals at halftime against South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns in the final of a regional Under-17 girls’ tournament in Zimbabwe aimed at promoting cervical cancer vaccination. By fulltime, the gap had stretched to 5-0. Yet for Lishoeshoe winger Nteboheleng Leticia Sooane,…
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By Rédaction Africanews and AP Cross-border law enforcement agency Interpol says it has arrested more than 3,700 people as part of a global crackdown on human traffickers and migrant smugglers. More than 4,400 potential victims have been protected by the operation, the organisation said on Monday. Operation Liberterra III took place over eleven days last November, across 119 countries and involved 14,000 police officers. Interpol highlighted cases involving South Americans and Asians in Africa, saying there appeared to be an emerging change in human trafficking that contrasts with past patterns of African victims being trafficked abroad. In this photo released…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP As reconstruction is underway in Sudan’s capital, a grassroots initiative is using the opportunity to turn Khartoum into a greener city. Volunteers are working to plant 1,000 trees around Khartoum in the hopes of restoring its pre-war glory. “The initiative began with questions like, ‘Why don’t we have fruit trees in Sudan? Why aren’t these trees in our streets and neighborhoods?’ These questions were presented as an initiative on social media, and [it] was very well received by young people,” said Mugtaba Montaser, the founder of the “Green Khartoum” initiative. The army recaptured Khartoum from…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP The West African country is home to thousands of smallholder cocoa farmers, who are the backbone of the world’s largest producer of the fruit. But the country currently faces major difficulties in selling its cocoa, hit by a slowdown in exports and a drop in global prices. Laurent Kone’s wattle-and-daub house, with its tarpaulin roof and no electricity, lies down a bumpy red-earth track in western Ivory Coast. For 30 years, he has been growing cocoa and is typical of the smallholders who have been the backbone in making the west African country the world’s…
By Rédaction Africanews and CCTV Sudan’s gold industry, a key source of foreign currency, is reeling under ongoing conflict, infrastructure damage, and collapsing trade ties. The price of gold is hitting record highs but gold traders in Sudan are missing out. The country is one of Africa’s leading gold producers and exporters but conflict, infrastructure damage, and collapsing trade ties mean have seen its vital gold industry suffering severe setbacks. “The current market is incredibly difficult. It’s a heavy blow to the gold sector,” says Mohammed Al-Sawakni, head of the Gold Industry Association in Sudan’s Red Sea State. Gold mining…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko on Monday dismissed post-Africa Cup of Nations tensions between his country and Morocco as “excesses” only caused by “sporting emotions.” Sonko spoke alongisde his Moroccan counterpart Aziz Akhannouch during the 15th Morocco–Senegal Joint Commission for Cooperation held from January 26 to 28 in Rabat. “This visit therefore comes at a time charged with sporting emotions, regrettable excesses, and images that are sometimes painful for two peoples deeply connected,” said Sonko “The missteps seen here and there should neither be denied nor dramatised. They should be reframed as emotional excesses born…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has again rejected Israeli efforts to transfer Palestinians out of their territories in the Gaza Strip. Speaking at Police Day in Cairo on Saturday, Sissi warned that any such attempt would trigger a wave of refugees across the globe: “I emphasise the necessity of halting the systematic practices against the Palestinian people in their occupied land and rejecting any attempts or efforts to displace them from their homeland,” he said. “I warn that the exodus of approximately two and a half million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and what this implies…
The leader of a Kenyan cult accused of encouraging his followers to starve themselves to death will be charged over a further 52 deaths at another village, prosecutors say. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie was arrested in 2023 after 429 bodies, including children, were dug up from mass graves in the remote Shakahola forest. He has been in custody since his arrest and has been accused of luring the latest victims to their deaths by writing notes from his prison cell. Mackenzie has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of manslaughter. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said in…
By Rédaction Africanews Nigeria’s military will try several officers over an alleged plan to oust President Bola Tinubu last year, it said Monday, acknowledging a plot the government had initially denied. In October, the military said 16 officers had been arrested over “issues of indiscipline”. Despite official denials, sources across the Nigerian government and military had told AFP they were arrested over a coup plot. If successful, this would have brought an end to a quarter-century of democracy in Africa’s most populous country. “The Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN) wishes to inform the general public that investigations into the matter…
By Rédaction Africanews At Monday’s briefing, United Nations Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric announced the launch of a $852 million Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Somalia, which he said, “is 40 percent less than last year” and “aims to support 2.4 million people.” Dujarric stressed that the reduction in funding “is due to constrained resources, not reduced humanitarian needs.” He said there will be, “significant gaps in essential services,” as less than half of those in need of humanitarian aid will be able to receive help under the 2026 plan. Dujarric said, “without urgent and scaled-up assistance, the combined prolonged drought,…