Ekeomah Atuonwu Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is hosting its second annual Africa Day campaign to highlight Africans who are making a global impact. South African filmmaker Tarryn Crossman said Meta identified eight African innovators, creators, and business people whose stories the company wanted told for the “Made in Africa, Loved Around the World” campaign. Tia […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu The Mankon community in Cameroon is mourning the death of their paramount ruler, Fon Angwafor III Solomon, who died at the age of 97. He was an influential political figure who was one of the architects of the 1972 reunification of English-speaking Southern Cameroons and francophone La République du Cameroun. He was fondly […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu Police in Nigeria say they are looking for gunmen who killed at least 12 people in the south-eastern state of Anambra, including a pregnant woman and her four children. The police have blamed the region’s rising violence on Biafra separatists. According to a community leader, the pregnant woman and her children were returning […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu African presidents are expected to join the world’s political and business elite in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting, which begins today and runs through May 26. The 2022 meeting will be the first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The meeting, themed History at a Turning Point: Government […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu An 18-year-old technical senior high school student in Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana, has made a car that uses fuel. The teenager decided to name the car ‘Never Give Up’ because of the challenges he faced while making it but persevered. A video published on YouTube by a local outlet shows him recounting how he made […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegalese President Macky Sall said he would visit Moscow and Kyiv in the coming weeks as chairman of the African Union, which he said hopes will bring de-escalation and peace in Ukraine through dialogue between the two sides. Speaking at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Sall said: “We do not want to be aligned on […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu The international wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, was temporarily shut in the early hours of Thursday after the mangled body of a dead man was found on Runway 18R of the nation’s flagship airport. The identity of the corpse could not be ascertained as of press time. Also, it could not be […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu Ugandan animation studio, Creatures Animation, has made a deal to produce the country’s first animated Disney film as part of the upcoming anthology series “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire,” which will feature producers from across Africa. “Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire”, is a ten-part collection of short animations by producers from six African countries that is set […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have directed that female presenters on local television stations cover their faces while on air. The move comes just days after authorities ordered women to cover their faces in public, a policy reminiscent of the Taliban’s previous hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that has sparked outrage both […]
Read More
Ekeomah Atuonwu Another sandstorm in Iraq’s climate-stressed region has sent at least 4,000 people to the hospital with breathing problems and forced the closure of airports, schools, and government offices across the country. A dense cloud of dust engulfed Baghdad and blanketed many other cities, including the Shia shrine city of Najaf to the south and Sulaymaniyah in […]
Read More
Recent Comments