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The U.N. has backed a map that more accurately represents Africa’s true size, challenging the centuries-old Mercator projection. The resolution promotes the Equal Earth projection as a more accurate representation of the world’s continents. Source link
Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Ahead of next week’s India-Africa Forum Summit in New Delhi, the African Union has called for “collective international solidarity and cooperation” to deal with the Ebola virus outbreak affecting multiple African countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda. Responding to queries from The Hindu, Nuur…
Much has been written about the universally loved Jane Goodall, primatologist and animal rights campaigner, on whom awards and honours far too numerous to list have been showered. She passed away on October 1 aged 91. One recognition, however, she did not but should have received is the Nobel Peace Prize. For all her life, Goodall worked for…
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Juba, South Sudan: A plane has crashed in the north of South Sudan killing at least 20 people, leaving only one confirmed survivor, Unity State’s minister for information said Wednesday. The aircraft came down near the oil fields in Unity State at around 10:30 am local time (0830 GMT) shortly after taking off for the…
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An unknown disease with flu-like symptoms has killed at least 79 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the BBC. The unidentified disease has infected 300 people in DR Congo since November 10, causing flu-like symptoms including fever, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties and anaemia, the country’s health ministry said. Most of the dead…
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What is Nigeria’s cryptic pregnancy scam? BBC Africa Eye has investigated a disturbing fertility scam in Anambra State, Nigeria where desperate women are shelling hundreds of dollars for this treatment that gives desperate women false pregnancies. What constitutes this “cryptic” pregnancy? Women who come to these clinics are warned not to visit doctors or hospitals…
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It was a moment of great pride for India when the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, conferred Nigeria’s highest civilian award, the ‘Grand Commander of the Order of Niger’, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This honour recognised Modi’s statesmanship and significant contributions to fostering ties between the two countries through…
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Human-caused climate change worsened floods that have killed hundreds of people and displaced millions in Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan this year, according to a study published on Wednesday. The intense rainy season has unleashed a humanitarian crisis across large areas of the Sahel region bordering the Sahara desert. A new analysis by the…
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Dozens of girls in Ivory Coast would be circumcised, often surrounded by fetishes and sacred objects. Touba, Ivory Coast: When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation. “I wanted to be a big chief, I…
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More than four years since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the WHO (World Health Organization) in March 2020, fear of another mass outbreak looms large. The WHO, on August 14, declared the current upsurge of Mpox or Monkeypox in Central Africa as a global emergency requiring urgent action. The global concern for the virus…
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