In the round-up: Covid-19; the obscenity of Western countries; closing schools for the rest of the year; and Samuel Eto’o declares his candidacy
It is possible to convince newsrooms looking for a topical story that something is news when it isn’t, to dangerous effect
Paul Rusesabagina — credited with saving hundreds of lives during the Rwandan genocide — was recently found guilty of terrorism, after being ‘tricked’ into custody by the Kagame regime
Untreated effluent from textile factories in in Lesotho, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mauritius and Madagascar pours into rivers, contaminating the water
Your Africa updates: What happened on the continent this past week
Only Gambia has a plan that, if everyone acted the same way, would see global heating kept to below 1.5°C.
Alpha Condé is not the first president to have his humiliation captured on camera.
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north