Meet Senegal’s female barrier breaker in the salt production
Senegal is the largest salt producer in West Africa. Though women play a key role as collectors, the sector is…
‘Major’ aims as Cape Town Marathon races to be sport’s greenest event
The Cape Town Marathon route passes some of the city’s landmarks like Table Mountain Cape Town is a city battling…
Kwadwo Sheldon – Ghana’s YouTube star refuses to be an unemployment stat
Kwadwo Sheldon, real name Bernard Kwadwo Amoafo, is a Ghanaian content creator with more than 400,000 subscribers on YouTube. However…
World Cup 2022: Salima Mukansanga to ‘open doors’ for female officials
Referee Salima Mukansanga made history at the men’s Africa Cup of Nations this year and will do so again at…
World Cup 2022: Senegal forward Sadio Mane ruled out after surgery
Surgery will be scheduled for Mane soon Host nation: Qatar Dates: 20 November-18 December Coverage: Live on BBC TV, BBC…
Nigerian athletes convicted for fraud after FBI investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation led the case against the two Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebakin Nigeria’s athletics federation says…
Charlize Theron condemned for saying Afrikaans is dying language
During apartheid only English, Dutch and Afrikaans were official state languages and indigenous languages were suppressed, but when white-minority rule…
COP27: Africa’s dash for gas sparks debate at climate summit in Egypt
At the current COP27 negotiations in Egypt, dubbed by some as the “African COP”, the continent’s leaders are trying to…
Ukraine war: Lemekhani Nyirenda’s Zambian family demands answers from Russia
“He told my parents: ‘I am no longer in prison but where I am is confidential’. My parents were worried,…
Saving the cranes, Uganda’s endangered national symbol
The crested or grey-crowned crane is Uganda’s national symbol. But only around 20,000 are left in the world. The birds…