Kwaku Yaro creates mixed-media portraits using cleverly upcycled wax prints, iconic blue-and-red chequered ‘Ghana-Must-Go’ bags, and other urban materials. Based in Accra, one of the best places to visit in Africa in 2024, the Ghanaian visual artist namechecks his favourite art markets, beaches and Afrobeat bars in the hometown that inspires his work. The Presidential …
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir and Alexander Mutiso Munyao won the women’s and men’s elite races on a poignant day at the London Marathon. Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir won the London Marathon in a women’s-only world record as Alexander Mutiso Munyao’s victory in the men’s race made it a Kenyan double. The race on Sunday was preceded …
The Okavango Delta may be both a mirage and a miracle. It is also a metaphor. Just as the tiny minnow powers the barbel run in the river, which sustains the giants that stride through it, so do we all, in some way, enrich the big picture through playing our fleeting, responsible parts. I think …
Dr. Amani Abou-Zeid is the current African Union (AU) commissioner for Energy and Infrastructure. She believes that cross-border approaches are critical for clean energy affordability. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS by Aimable Twahirwa (abu dhabi) Wednesday, April 17, 2024 Inter Press Service ABU DHABI, Apr 17 (IPS) – Investors, regulators, researchers, policymakers, and representatives of renewable energy companies, …
“There.” the whisper is urgent. The Land Cruiser stops. “What?” asks Rowan, looking up from his manga comic. “Lion,” says our guide Will Jones, his tone still hushed, pointing into the yellow grass ahead. “Where?” Rowan shouts. “Shhh,” says everyone in the vehicle, in unison. A large male emerges from the waist-high grass with languid …
Rwanda will begin commemorating 30 years on Sunday since the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 people dead, most of them from the Tutsi ethnic minority. For three decades, researchers have been investigating what happened, carefully detailing accounts from the witnesses and survivors of the last mass slaughter of the 20th century. In just 100 days, …
Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, April 05, 2024 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Apr 05 (IPS) – The fact that Senegal’s election took place on 24 March was in itself a triumph for civil society. That an opposition candidate, campaigning on an anti-establishment and anti-corruption agenda, emerged from jail to become the continent’s …
The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s restive western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border deliveries in March, but the population still faces widespread hunger unless more help arrives. Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 21:06 2 min The yearlong conflict between military and paramilitary forces …
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – “We need change and we need change now,” said Princess Nozwe Zulu, sitting in her home in a low-income government housing project in Savannah Park, 18km west of the South African port city of Durban. “Black people cannot be slaves in their own country forever … that’s why we are voting …
Togo’s opposition on Thursday called for a three-day mass protest to demonstrate against the government’s decision to delay this month’s legislative elections. Issued on: 05/04/2024 – 03:24 2 min Tensions between President Faure Gnassingbe’s government and the opposition have heightened following parliament’s approval of a contested constitutional reform critics say is a bid to keep …