A long-silent voice from a distant past — eerie and reverberating — awakens in the climate-controlled, antiseptic chambers of a Paris museum. The forum through which this entity communicates to us is Mati Diop’s “Dahomey.” The French Senegalese filmmaker returns with a rich and absorbing exploration of the specter of colonialism that continues the enthralling,
Yves Kaduli Yves Kaduli, a Congolese doctor, says he fled his country after being kidnapped and tortured For the growing number of African asylum seekers and economic migrants in the US, the upcoming presidential election could reshape their entire future. “We deserve safety,” says Dr Yves Kaduli, a 38-year-old asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic
A tiny Ohio town is wrangling with a sudden influx of African refugees whose arrival has almost doubled the population over the past year. Close to Cincinnati, Lockland was home to 3,500 people in 2023, but local officials say it has since taken in more than 3,000 legal Mauritanian asylum seekers. ‘If you look at
The government should “unequivocally reject” calls for the UK to pay reparations for its role in the slave trade, Tory leadership candidate Robert Jenrick has said. He said calls for the UK to pay reparations were “based on false and misleading narratives about our past”. Britain “worked harder than nearly any other country to eradicate
SpaceX Senegal’s first satellite hitched a lift on a SpaceX launcher in August One by one, the satellites – each of them encrusted with a hodge-podge of solar panels and other gizmos – detached from their mothership. They had blasted off from Earth just an hour earlier, on 16 August. The 116 satellites onboard the
Curated By: Aakash Biswas Last Updated: October 13, 2024, 08:18 IST Johannesburg, South Africa Morocco hammered Central African Republic 5-0 and Serhou Guirassy scored a hat-trick as Guinea trounced Ethiopia 4-1 on Saturday in the final 2025 Africa Cup of Nations third-round qualifiers. Azzedine Ounahi netted twice and Abde Ezzalzouli, Achraf Hakimi and Soufiane Rahimi
South African prosecutors say they will not pursue criminal charges against President Cyril Ramaphosa in relation to the controversial farm theft scandal that nearly brought down the president two years ago. A former spy chief laid a criminal complaint against Ramaphosa, accusing him of committing irregularities in trying to hide the theft of $4m (£3.25m)
Last Updated: October 10, 2024, 11:02 IST Washington D.C., United States of America (USA) As Hurricane Milton approaches Tampa on October 9, 2024, the Florida Aquarium relocated nine African penguins to a safer upper floor. (Reuters) As Hurricane Milton approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast, ZooTampa shelters African elephants, Caribbean flamingos, and other animals, ensuring their safety
It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. “It just looked like a statue. I was like, ‘How am I going to get
African farmers aren’t as productive because of changing rainfall patterns. Now, an NGO and the Kenyan government are pulling together geographically precise weather data and texting it to farmers.