Southern Africa

In South Africa, the social community TikTok has signed a partnership with the establishments liable for accumulating copyright. The settlement additionally applies to the 22 African international locations with which these establishments work. A win-win contract for TikTok who needs to entice artists to their platform and for the music business who're in search of new earnings.…

President Cyril Ramaphosa spent the day earlier than an anti-corruption fee. The Zondo Fee, which since 2018 has been accused of investigating suspicions of fraud and corruption throughout the state and of seizing energy from a minority. The connection between the sulfur-containing Gupta household and former President Jacob Zuma is significantly at the guts of his analysis. By way of this fee,…

Quick deployment of three,000 troops in northern Mozambique to combat terrorism is one among the avenues talked about in a leaked report that needs to be mentioned at a rare summit in SADC, the improvement neighborhood. Africa, scheduled for 28 and 29 April. Regional army response after jihadist assaults on the town of Palma in late March within the province of Cabo Delgado. Since then, the safety…

In her newest ebook, Sophie Bouillon shares her ardour for Lagos, a West African metropolis the place she works for AFP. Between the strains, the portrait of a metropolis through the Covid disaster, and what it takes to stay there. “In the event you suppose you might be robust, come to Lagos. You will see. "As a spotlight of…

Unused vaccines that acquire mud on a shelf ready to be administered, this isn't about Covid, however about all different vaccines towards ailments equivalent to polio and measles. On account of the pandemic, vaccination campaigns are at a standstill in some fifty nations. At stake, the WHO explains the well being of a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of kids, notably in Africa.…

The South African documentary The Knowledge of the Pieuvre received the Oscar for greatest documentary, on Sunday, April 25 in Los Angeles. It tells the story of a snorkel diver and an octopus in Cape City's False Bay. The assembly between man and octopus takes place in a kelp forest. These are massive algae that may attain 60 meters in top and are house to a wealthy ecosystem. With the knowledge of…

After a break, the vaccine campaign is about to resume in the next few days. The injection of the vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson was stopped after cases of blood clots in six patients in the United States. As no cases have been observed among people vaccinated in South Africa, the campaign will be able to continue, to complete the first phase of caregivers, and the country should soon…

South Africa will be represented at the 93rd Oscar, this Sunday, April 25, in Los Angeles. The movie "The Octopus Wisdom" competes for the Oscar for Best Documentary, having won twenty trophies including Bafta, in the same category in London on 11 April. as reported from Johannesburg, Romain SongThe film tells the story of the…

War reparations have been at the heart of debates in the International Court of Justice since Tuesday. In 2005, this UN court found Uganda guilty of interfering in the affairs of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ordered compensation for the damage caused during the Ugandan army's occupation of Ituri, in particular. billion dollars in Kampala.…

The fight for the climate is at the heart of an international virtual summit organized over two days by US President Joe Biden in connection with Earth Day. On the African continent, signs of disruption are increasing. The Joe Biden's first announcements denote a desire to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. To lead by example,…