Ekeomah Atuonwu Looty, a Nigerian art-focused company, has devised a method for Africans to view all of the art that was lost during the colonial era. Chidi, a 34-year-old Nigerian creative designer and founder of Looty, explained that the company first locates African art in museums around the world, then scans and converts the art into […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Senegalese President and the African Union’s chief, Macky Sall, will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the southwestern Russian city of Sochi on Friday. According to Sall’s office, the visit is aimed at “freeing up stocks of cereals and fertilisers, which are particularly affected by the blockade in Africa,” as well as resolving the Ukraine conflict. Sall will travel with […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ethiopia is set to receive 200 million U.S. dollars in financial assistance from the World Bank, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday. “The funds will be used to build skilled manpower and boost the capacity of state-owned technical and vocational training institutes,” Ethiopian Minister of Labor and Skills Development Muferiat Kamil said. Here is the facebook post. […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world’s best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to attract the “best and brightest” workers. But no African universities are included in the list of eligible institutions. Under the scheme announced on Monday, graduates with a bachelor’s or […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu In a case that has sparked widespread outrage among human rights activists in Pakistan, police have arrested three suspects for allegedly gang-raping a 25-year-old woman in an empty compartment of a moving train. “A ticket checker lured the 25-year-old mother of two children to an empty compartment last week, and three men raped […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Zimbabweans are reportedly cutting their toes in exchange for dollars in order to survive the country’s economic downturn, according to a video on social media. The video, which was posted on Twitter, showed a man limping with wool covering a portion of his toe. He was bragging about using the proceeds from the […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath), a popular Indian singer, has died. He died on Tuesday night in Kolkata. According to reports, KK performed at Nazrul Mancha on Tuesday and then went to his hotel, where he became ill. He was taken to a private hospital and pronounced dead. The singer, 53, had previously shared photos from his Tuesday […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration signed a $200 million grant agreement with the Japanese government yesterday for the implementation of a Japanese-funded scholarship programs for government officials. This year, 13 officials will be sponsored by the annual program to pursue master’s and doctorate degrees in Japan. The program is funded […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Tuesday, the African Union’s chairman warned EU leaders that their decision to bar Russian banks from the SWIFT financial messaging system risks jeopardizing food supplies to the continent. The Ukrainian conflict and Russia’s blockade of its neighbor’s ports, combined with African conflicts and climate change, have already sent global cereal prices skyrocketing […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Rescuers have recovered all 22 bodies from the site of a plane crash on a Nepalese mountainside. All the bodies have been flown to Kathmandu and are being examined by doctors at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital. According to the airline, the bodies will be handed over to relatives after an autopsy. On Sunday, a […]
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