By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Cape Verde began two days of mourning on Sunday for the victims of a bus crash that killed 25 people, most of them children or teenagers. Mourners gathered for the funeral of 18 of the victims on Sunday afternoon. Seven others were buried earlier in the day. Families and residents gathered across Fogo Island, where the accident happened, to accompany the coffins to the cemetery. The bus was returning to Sao Felipe late on Saturday after a day out when it veered off the road and plunged into a deep ravine. Thirty-two people were on board.…
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A Nigerian man has shared the story of how he rose up out of “abject poverty” as a child, to become one of the leading UK academics in his field. David Etor, 43, who grew up in Nigeria, only learned to read and write aged 12 and was told as a child that “nothing good will come out of you”, but is now a lecturer in electrical and mechanical engineering at the University of Bristol. He told the BBC how his family was so poor growing up that his mum would pretend to cook food in a kitchen they shared…
By Noël Kokou Tadegnon in Nairobi African women’s volleyball is expanding its reach. More countries are taking part in competitions, new teams are making progress and the hierarchy is becoming less predictable. The 2026 African Women’s Volleyball Championship in Nairobi offered another illustration of this shift. Egypt won the title by beating Kenya 3 sets to 0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-15) in the final. It was a convincing victory against the host nation, defending champions and ten-time African champions. Egypt went through the entire tournament without dropping a single set. Seven matches, seven victories and 21 sets won. The fourth continental…
By Africanews with AFP Frederick Teiko Ofori spent a large portion of his life with a guitar in his hands, so when the Ghanaian musician died in a road accident, his family decided that the instrument should accompany him on his final journey. His coffin was built in the shape of an enormous guitar. The coffin stood out at his funeral on Saturday in Adjen Kotoku Amoama, on the outskirts of Accra, among bright red flowers, a portrait of the 40-year-old and the mourners gathered under canopies to shade themselves from the sun. Yet it was also par for the…
By Rédaction Africanews Fighting broke out in Baidoa early Thursday between Somali government forces and militia loyal to former South West State predisent Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen. Heavy gunfire rung out, with residents fleeing some neighbourhoods as a result. One doctor at the Bay Regional Hospital told journalists that his hospital received 24 people who were injured in the fighting, as well as one civilian who died. According to Somalia’s defense ministry, its forces were responding to an attack on their positions by militias loyal to Laftagareen as well as Al-Shabab fighters. It’s the latest episode in a political and…
The world has entered a “danger zone of extreme weather” as the impacts of El Niño start to be felt globally, UN head António Guterres has warned. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released the latest data on the natural weather phenomenon showing it could be the strongest for more than 70 years and last until at least February 2027. El Niño changes weather patterns around the world, pushing some regions into drought whilst others experience stronger typhoons and flooding. Forecasters also say El Niño will boost temperatures in some places, coming on top of rising heat globally from human-induced…
By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s state visit to Cairo this week has been hailed as a much-needed boost to bilateral relations by Egyptian officials. The two-day trip saw Xi and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi mark 70 years of diplomatic ties. “Two countries that have many bonds through civilization dialogue and relations that exist between two civilizations, comprehensively add to the value of the principles of co-existence, non-interference in general, and enhancing international law and world order,” Mohamed Hegazy, a former assistant to Egypt’s Foreign Minister, said after the visit. During the two-day trip, Xi and…
By AFP After her 19-year-old son disappeared while attempting to cross the Atlantic to Europe, Aminata Boye turned her grief into a mission to help other families facing the same loss. In Mbour’s Tefees neighbourhood, where many families have lost relatives to irregular migration, Boye helps search for missing migrants and supports their relatives. Aminata Boye, President, Collective of Victims of Irregular Emigration in Senegal: “That’s how I drew on my own experience to understand research methods and track down those who had taken the boats. I got in touch with the Red Cross so they could help me with…
Abraham Mofokeng still carries the wounds of the bloody suppression of a protest in South Africa 66 years ago. In what became known as the Sharpeville massacre, police infamously opened fire on thousands of peaceful demonstrators. A bullet is still lodged in Mofokeng’s spine, and he has a gentle limp from a gunshot to the leg. “We weren’t seen as people,” the 86-year-old tells the BBC as he explains the reasons he joined the demonstration on 21 March 1960 against the repressive laws of the white-minority government. “All you were good for was working. You couldn’t question them, you were…
Kenya’s President William Ruto has ordered a crackdown on foreigners operating small-scale businesses, saying local traders and hawkers need to be protected. His announcement comes amid growing debate about the increasing number of African migrants involved in Kenya’s vast informal economy. “From next week, all [foreign] traders doing those small businesses should close them,” he said, also promising to fast-track proposed legislation to preclude foreigners from certain areas of trade. Ruto said Kenya remained open to foreign investment, but argued that investors – including Chinese traders – should create jobs and expand production rather than compete with Kenyans in small…