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Angola: Activism in danger in a election year

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Global Voices

Angolan youths protest in the capital Luanda – Euro News report YouTube (screenshot made by the author) A few months before August, when elections will be held to choose a new President, freedom of expression is increasingly in danger in Angola. According to the US State Department’s Human Rights 2021 report, published in 2022, Angola is experiencing moments marked by illegal or arbitrary executions, forced disappearances, inhuman treatment, and restrictions on press freedom. It should also be noted that after successive protests by activists and opposition parties against the new electoral la… Continue reading “Angola: Activism in danger in a election year”

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Do Russians have war in their blood?

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The Bangkok Post

The geopolitical views of my grandmother, Florence O’Driscoll, could have been summed up in seven words: the Germans have war in their blood. Even as a child I suspected that the world must be more complicated than that, but I never contradicted her. She came by those views the hard way. Most Irish Catholics of her time hated England, but she reserved her hatred for Germany because half the young men she had known were killed in World War I. She had to make sense of why Newfoundlanders were being killed by Germans thousands of kilometres from home, and that was her answer. During World War II … Continue reading “Do Russians have war in their blood?”

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Tackling one of the World’s Highest Teenage Pregnancy Rates, to Give Girls a Better Future

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TDPel Media

“I have had doors closed in my face many times, but my desire to bring knowledge to young people and adolescents in order to avoid unwanted pregnancy has no end,” said Stela Varela, 28, an activist for the Youth Support Centre (CAJ) and a beneficiary of the Safeguard Young People (SYP) programme. Ms. Varela applies the knowledge she has acquired in her seven years as an activist in her neighbourhood of Bairro da Mitcha, on the outskirts of the city of Lubango, in the province of Huíla. Helping her community – especially girls and young women – fills her with pride. Young women contributing to … Continue reading “Tackling one of the World’s Highest Teenage Pregnancy Rates, to Give Girls a Better Future”

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Rain to clear over the long weekend, but windy conditions are brewing

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TDPel Media

Weather forecasters expect some of the heavy downpours experienced across South Africa this week to clear up over the long weekend but warn more wet and windy conditions are brewing. Associate professor in meteorology at the University of Pretoria Liesl Dyson said the recent conditions were due to tropical moisture moving over the country. “In the past week or so, a tropical weather system called an Africane was situated over southern Angola and Mozambique,” she said. Dyson said an Africane was a large-scale, hurricane-like low that occurred over the southern subcontinent of Africa and supplie… Continue reading “Rain to clear over the long weekend, but windy conditions are brewing”

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Nigeria, 31 nations deploy warships, helicopters for joint military exercise

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TDPel Media

By Desmond Ejibas The Nigerian Navy on Friday deployed 10 warships and two helicopters in a joint multinational maritime exercise comprising 31 other foreign navies. The Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Adm. Awwal Gambo, inaugurated the exercise tagged: “Obangame Express 2022” in Onne, Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers. Gambo said the exercise was aimed at improving security in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG) and boost synergy with navies within the regional block and allied countries. According to him, the Nigerian Navy will conduct the drill on Nigeria’s territorial waterways and the gulf between Mar… Continue reading “Nigeria, 31 nations deploy warships, helicopters for joint military exercise”

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The problem with basketball

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Philippine Star

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.”– Attributed to Albert Einstein It seems so painfully difficult to progress in the country’s unrequited love for basketball. That’s why many sportsmen continue to argue against it. And in some aspects, they’re not wrong. If it were possible (or allowed), there are other individual sports which, on the surface, would produce better results than basketball internationally, possibly at a lower cost. Swimming, athletics and gymnastics, individual sports wherein athletes compete in multiple events, can garner more med… Continue reading “The problem with basketball”

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Ukraine-Russia conflict pounding ailing African economies

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TDPel Media

Mineral Resources and Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, says the current conflict between Ukraine and Russia poses a danger to ailing African economies. The Minister was speaking at the Africa Energy Indaba on Tuesday. “The present situation regarding Ukraine, that pits the Russian Federation against the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation [NATO] and its allies, threatens our already battered economies. It further postpones our reach for the Africa We Want,” Mantashe said. The conflict between the two countries has reached its sixth day after the Russian military invaded Ukraine last week in a m… Continue reading “Ukraine-Russia conflict pounding ailing African economies”

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Factbox-Key facts about sanctioned Russian bank VTB

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Reuters UK

(Reuters) – Russian lender VTB was hit with sanctions by both the United States and the United Kingdom on Thursday, in the wake of Russia’s all-out invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Here are some key facts about the bank. WHAT IS VTB? VTB is the second-largest lender in Russia. As well as providing traditional banking services, it conducts investment banking operations through its VTB Capital arm. Founded in 1990, VTB was created to help facilitate Russian trade abroad and promote the country’s integration into the global economy. OWNERSHIP VTB is owned by the Russian state, which controls 92.2… Continue reading “Factbox-Key facts about sanctioned Russian bank VTB”

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As eyes look to Ukraine, Russia gains an edge in Africa

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Al-Araby

West Africa is experiencing a wave of coups that have toppled governments in Mali and Burkina Faso over the past year, with another attempt in Guinea-Bissau this month. Aggrieved military brass – US-trained and partnered – deposed elected presidents and claimed control of the state. The primary reason provided by coup leaders is that the elected governments and their Western partners had failed over the past decade to rid their hinterlands of jihadist militants, particularly after France’s move to trim down its force presence throughout the Sahel region. That is good news for Russia. Observers… Continue reading “As eyes look to Ukraine, Russia gains an edge in Africa”

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Forbes Africa’s 2022 list of dollar-billionaires

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TDPel Media

African women need to up their games in their respective trades. Forbes Africa has released its annual list of dollar-billionaires on the continent, and in total, 18 very wealthy citizens make it into this exclusive club, all men. Nigerian Aliko Dangote remains the richest man in Africa, with his fortune pushing the $14 billion mark. The cement and sugar production magnate has a comfortable cushion at the top of the tree, and there’s daylight between him and Johann Rupert. The Stellenbosch-based billionaire is second on the list, with $11 billion in the bank. Another South African, Nicky Oppen… Continue reading “Forbes Africa’s 2022 list of dollar-billionaires”

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