Africa 39;s biggest film festival marks its 50th anniversary on Saturday, buoyed by its contributions to the continent 39;s cinema industry but overshadowed by security problems in host country Burkina Faso. Fespaco -- the acronym in French of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou -- unfolds in the Burkina capital ev ...

Former Springbok Cornal Hendricks debuts for the Northern Bulls in Super Rugby this Saturday, four years after being told not to play again because of a heart condition. Winger Hendricks replaces meningitis victim Johnny Kotze for a second-round clash with the Jaguares in the only change from the team that thrashed Western Stormers last wee ...

Kong. Visit the mosque, suggests a battered road sign outside a dusty little town in northern Ivory Coast which is getting a makeover thanks to its best-known son. Unusually for a town of its diminutive size, Kong has two historic mosques, both in the clay desert fashion known as the Sudanese style, with a brand-new high school, tarred hi ...

Addis Ababa, February 21, 2019 (ECA) ndash; Eradicating the Ebola Virus Disease from Africa requires bold leadership at different tiers of government and society, Economic Commission for Africa rsquo;s (ECA) Deputy Executive Director, Giovani Biha, said Thursday. She was speaking at a meeting called by the African Union Com ...

SEATTLE, February 21, 2019 ndash; The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced Cheikh Oumar Seydi as the new Africa Director. He joins at a critical time for the foundation rsquo;s work in Africa. Seydi, a Senegalese national, joins the Gates Foundation from the World Bank Group rsquo;s International Finance Corporation (IFC), where he w ...

Profiles of key suspects in last month 39;s terror attack in Nairobi point to the worrying rise of a new generation of Kenyan jihadists, analysts say. Police are hunting Ali Salim Gichunge, the suspected mastermind of the January 15 attack on the Dusit hotel and office complex that left 21 dead, and Violet Kemunto Omwoyo, described as a Ch ...

Heads of state of 17 countries in the Sahel region of Africa will hold a summit on Monday in Niamey to approve a climate investment plan worth $400 billion over 12 years, the Niger government said Wednesday. The ambitious plan for the period 2018-30 will involve 17 nations from the Atlantic Ocean to the Horn of Africa and will represent ...

Democratic Republic of Congo ex-president Joseph Kabila, who yielded power to Felix Tshisekedi after December elections, moved Wednesday to assert his political clout, making the leaders of his FCC coalition sign a loyalty pledge. Kabila 39;s Common Front For Congo remains the strongest force in parliament, garnering an overwhelming majori ...

Entebbe, Uganda, 16 February 2018 ndash; In a meeting held on the 14-15 February in Entebbe, Uganda, members of the Climate Research for Development (CR4D) Institutional Collaboration Platform (ICP) unanimously adopted the CR4D five-year strategic plan. The participants further resolved to implement the strategy that emphasizes thr ...

A small seafood eatery two hours from Cape Town up the Atlantic coast has been awarded the prestigious title of Best Restaurant in the World by judges from 37 countries at the inaugural World Restaurant Awards in Paris. Wolfgat, named after the geological and archaeological caves in the fishing village of Paternoster, also won an award for ...

Photographers for Agence France-Presse received four nominations Wednesday in the 2019 World Press Photo of the Year Award, with the winners to be announced at a gala event in April. Kinshasa-based photographer John Wessels received two nominations in the General News-Stories category including for a series of pictures taken during an Ebola ...

Black History Month is in full swing in Bordeaux, where throughout February the city, more renowned for its wine than slavery past, takes the lead in celebrating black achievement and resilience. It is part an effort to grapple with the roots of the wealth of the city, which was France 39;s second largest port of the African slave trade. T ...

A French Senate commission on Wednesday demanded an investigation of three close aides to President Emmanuel Macron after finding major flaws in the government 39;s handling of a scandal involving an ex-bodyguard. The senators accused the three aides, including Macron 39;s chief of staff, of contradictions in their testimony over the sc ...

More than half of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have anti-homosexuality laws, although others have moved towards legal tolerance, watchdogs say. Twenty-eight out of 49 countries have laws penalising same-sex relationships, according to Neela Ghoshal, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) specialist in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender righ ...

Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya of South Africa goes to the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday to challenge proposed rules that would force her to lower her testosterone levels. The South African government has said the rules proposed by track and field 39;s governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federa ...

Marnus Schoeman was the unlikely hero as South African visitors the Golden Lions buried a Super Rugby jinx Saturday by defeating the Jaguares in Argentina for the first time. The Johannesburg outfit triumphed 25-16 at Estadio Jose Amalfitani with Schoeman, not part of the original starting XV, scoring three tries. Schoeman owed his place as a ...

Gathered under the spreading baobab tree in Danoa town square, farmers and herders in a remote corner of Ivory Coast are finally talking about a dispute that has poisoned relations and destroyed lives. Nearly three years ago, the northeast region of Bouna plunged into violence between crop growers and nomadic cattle raisers from the Fulani commu ...

Basketball world-governing body FIBA and the NBA will launch a new 12-team African professional league in 2020, announcing Saturday the first NBA collaboration on a league outside North America. The Basketball Africa League (BAL) was unveiled at Charlotte, North Carolina, on the eve of the 68th NBA All-Star Game. With teams from across Africa ...

Earlier today, the non-governmental organisation Save the Children published its second annual report on the impact of war on babies. Entitled Stop the War on Children, the report says that more than half a million infants died as a result of armed conflict worldwide in the five years between 2013 and 2017. At least 550,000 babies ar ...

South African police have withdrawn an arrest warrant for businessman Ajay Gupta after charges were dropped against Dudzane Zuma, former president Jacob Zuma 39;s son. ldquo;The warrant for Ajay Gupta was provisionally withdrawn, rdquo; said Hangwani Mulaudzi, a spokesperson for the Hawks police unit. Gupta, an associate of Jacob Zuma ...