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Tue, 09 Nov 2021 09:36:48 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria takes early steps into international art world
Nigeria's elite sipped champagne and splashed thousands of dollars on contemporary paintings at a fair in Lagos this week, an early step into the international art world for Africa's most populous nation.

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 06:32:41 +0000
News24.com | Botswana moves to restrict business activities for foreigners
Botswana is moving ahead to ring-fence business activities for locals, including businesses ranging from bread and confectionery to furniture. An economics lecturer believes taxing foreigners more could work better than blocking them.

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:25:51 +0000
News24.com | Film festival offers Tunisian inmates rare escape
For the first time, three prison inmates in Tunisia were allowed a brief taste of freedom for the sake of art.

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 12:36:38 +0000
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Sun, 07 Nov 2021 18:00:19 +0000
News24.com | Organic farmers find fertile ground in North Africa
Proudly displaying her freshly picked pomegranates, Tunisian farmer Sarah Shili says going organic is "the future of farming" -- and as demand surges in North Africa and beyond, the sector is blooming.

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 10:19:53 +0000
News24.com | Algerian graphic designer quits job to make olive oil, wins international award
Hakim Alileche left a successful career in graphic design and moved to the Algerian countryside to produce "magic potion" -- organic olive oil that has won him international recognition.

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 10:10:16 +0000
News24.com | Sudan gears up for anti-coup 'civil disobedience'
Pro-democracy protesters have prepared to launch two more days of civil disobedience against Sudan's military coup, as Arab League mediators arrived in Khartoum.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 14:25:41 +0000
News24.com | UPDATE | At least 99 killed in Sierra Leone fuel tanker blast, govt says
Ninety-one people were killed in the capital of Sierra Leone on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded following a collision, the central morgue and local authorities said.

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:24:03 +0000
News24.com | In Lagos' construction industry, 'money counts more than life'
On the site of a luxury shopping centre under construction in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos, a young builder steps gingerly along the top of bamboo scaffolding. Barefoot, with no rope to protect him.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:58:41 +0000
News24.com | Gunmen kill up to 15 soldiers in south west Niger, sources say
Gunmen killed up to 15 soldiers in an attack on a military outpost in a remote part of south west Niger where Islamist militants operate, officials and security sources said.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:19:51 +0000
News24.com | Abducted university workers freed in Nigeria: police
Nigerian security forces on Friday rescued six people who had been seized at a university near the capital's international airport, police said.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 12:32:30 +0000
News24.com | Calls for ceasefire in Ethiopia grow amid deepening conflict
African and Western nations called for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia on Thursday after Tigrayan forces from the country's North said they made advances towards the capital this week.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 11:01:52 +0000
News24.com | Africa pins hopes on 'breakthrough' malaria vaccine
A ground-breaking vaccine against malaria has stoked hopes in Africa of rolling back a disease that claims hundreds of thousands of lives a year, many of them youngsters.

Fri, 05 Nov 2021 09:49:52 +0000
News24.com | At least 69 dead in west Niger jihadist attack
At least 69 people, including a local mayor, have been killed in an attack in Niger's volatile "tri-border" zone with Burkina Faso and Mali, the interior ministry said on Thursday.

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:58:56 +0000
Businessinsider.co.za | Ethiopia calls on its citizens to take up arms as rebel forces advance toward nation's capital city
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged citizens to defend themselves against the rebellious forces after reports that they had taken control of two towns.

Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:45:54 +0000
News24.com | MTN to sell R3.7 billion stake in Nigerian unit
The move is part of a broader plan to sell about 14% of the parent company’s holding in its largest and most profitable unit.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 17:52:56 +0000
News24.com | EU begins military training against Mozambique insurgency
The European Union on Wednesday launched a military training mission in Mozambique to help local troops fight a jihadist insurgency in its gas-rich north.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:29:43 +0000
News24.com | Nigeria races to find survivors as 22 die in building collapse
Rescuers in Nigeria on Wednesday raced to find survivors, two days after a high-rise building under construction collapsed and trapped scores of people in the commercial capital Lagos, as the death toll rose to 22, an emergency official said.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:35:27 +0000
News24.com | Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark 'nature's revenge'
In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 08:59:04 +0000
News24.com | UN, Ethiopia rights commission to release report on abuses in Tigray
A report on abuses committed during war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region will be published on Wednesday, but a spokesperson for the party controlling Tigray said investigators did not visit many sites where violence occurred.



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