Month: June 2022

Ghana’s Pan African Heritage Museum seeks to reclaim Africa’s history

In our series of letters from African writers, media consultant and trainer Joseph Warungu writes about plans to build a huge museum in Ghana (so that Africans, rather than foreigners, control their history and heritage) to reflect the history and heritage of Africans. A new migration of Africans is about to happen. The Maasai of …

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Commonwealth Women’s Forum aims to tackle global challenges

The First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame, spoke of the new challenges facing women across the world at the Commonwealth Women’s Forum taking place in the capital, Kigali. The Forum runs alongside the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that opened on Monday and culminates with high-level meetings on Friday and Saturday. “From the disproportionate impact of climate change on women …

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Tackling child malnutrition in the DRC through cooking classes

A group of women seated with their babies are giving their full attention to Mama Elisabeth Muganwa in a large plastic tent in Kikumbe, an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp just 20 kilometres outside Kalémie, in the Tanganyika region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “Hello women,” Muganwa calls out, and the mothers respond …

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NGO warns world’s ‘most neglected’ refugee crises are all in Africa

A statement by the NRC’s secretary-general Jan Egeland said: “With the all-absorbing war in Europe’s Ukraine, I fear African suffering will be pushed further into the shadows.” According to the NGO, the countries most neglected are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Sudan, Nigeria, Burundi and Ethiopia. It is the first time …

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Ivorians who fled to Liberia return ‘home’, no longer considered refugees by UN

The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has announced the end of the refugee status given to Ivorians who fled political crises in their country to reside in neighboring Liberia. To mark the occasion, the human rights organisation’s Chief Filippo Grandi was in the northeastern town of Buuto on World Refugee Day. The High Commissioner for …

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UN food agency announces further refugee ration cuts, in quest for #ZeroHunger

The UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Monday that it will have no choice but to make further food ration cuts soon for refugees. The cause of the imminent cuts is multiplying humanitarian needs around the world and insufficient funding. “As global hunger soars way beyond the resources available to feed all the families …

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The Deal Premiere Brings Together Two Safta Lifetime Award Winners And Commemorates Youth Month

On the 14th of June 2022, Paul Modjadji’s directorial film The Deal premiered at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton. Starring two SAFTA lifetime award winners, Dr. Jerry Mofokeng wa Makgetha and Abigail Kubeka, The Deal premiere was hosted just two days before the commemoration of the 1976 June 16th youth uprising and during the …

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Mastercard Announces MoU With Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) To Help Boost Tourism

MoU to support post-pandemic recovery of the tourism sector in Kenya Signature Kenyan destinations, experiences to be highlighted to Mastercard cardholders Global technology company, Mastercard, has announced the signing of a partnership with the Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) to help Kenya’s tourism sector rebound to its pre-pandemic level. The three-year collaboration is the first-of-its-kind for …

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The World’s First International Black Heritage Month Connects The African Diaspora To Celebrate Juneteenth (USA) And Windrush Day (UK) Around The World Virtually

With a digital media platform that focuses on World Shapers, Afro-Futurism, Cultural Bridge Builders, and much more for 2022. Can you imagine the modern world without the influences of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Idris Elba, Naomi Campbell, Lewis Hamilton, or Sade? When we look at science and inventions, the …

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