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⚽ CHAN FINAL🌍 Algeria 🇩🇿 0 (4) Senegal 🇸🇳 0 (5) — 🏆🇸🇳 #TotalEnergiesAFCON title holders — 🏆🇸🇳 #TotalEnergiesCHAN title holders — 🏆🇸🇳 #BSAFCON title holders Algiers, Algeria |  CAFONLINE.COM  | Senegal are CHAN champions after beating hosts Algeria 5-4 on penalties after the final ended 0-0 on Saturday. Algeria’s …

After bidding farewell to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pope Francis’ flight lands in Juba for his long-awaited “ecumenical pilgrimage” for peace to South Sudan with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Iain Greenshields. Juba, South Sudan | …

Conserving Africa’s biodiversity is vital for the continent’s long-term economic development, and the private sector may be poised to assume a bigger role Kampala, Uganda | BEN PAYTON | Thousands of delegates gathered for the 2022 United Nations biodiversity conference (Cop15) in Montreal in December, tasked with finding a pathway to …

Pope Francis’ 40th Apostolic Journey abroad and his fifth Journey to Africa Kinshasa, DRC | THE INDEPENDENT |  Pope Francis has arrived in Kinshasa, as he begins his Apostolic Journey to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The flight landed at the “Ndjili” International Airport in the DRC’s capital of Kinshasa …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Large-scale adoption of hybrid rice that has proved effective in withstanding climatic stresses, as well as pests and diseases, is paramount in order to tackle Africa’s hunger and malnutrition crisis, scientists said Friday. Emmanuel Okogbenin, for programme development and commercialisation at African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), noted …

Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | High-ranking U.S. officials are heading to Africa, hot on the heels of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit held last month for the first time in eight years. Following U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to the continent earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield …

COMMENT | Zhu Shaobin – Xinhua |  High-ranking U.S. officials are heading to Africa, hot on the heels of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit held last month for the first time in eight years. Following U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s trip to the continent earlier this month, U.S. Ambassador to the …

  COMMENT | Nkwazi Mhango | Western democracy has been synonymous with western countries, which glorify themselves as being ‘successful and mature democracies’, even though they’re practically not, if analysed historically and compared and contrasted to realities on the ground. I must say it from the outset, democracy wasn’t born in …

The analysis found condom use as the leading contraceptive method among unmarried, sexually active young African women, followed by injections in East and Southern Africa and implants in West Africa. Nairobi, Kenya  | BIRD AGENCY | The use of modern contraception is soaring worldwide, with one in three women of …

It comes at a defining moment for the Catholic Church Kampala, Uganda | Stan Chu Ilo | Pope Francis plans to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan in February 2023. During the visit, the Pope intends to be in dialogue with African Catholics – but also to listen to …