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Newswise — Unfounded rumours have long circulated about Africans being injected with HIV for research purposes. But what about this: African soldiers getting their blood tested at a health centre in the early days of AIDS and then being injected with vaccines, all under the strictest secrecy? In the early 2000s, sociologist and pharmacist Pierre-Marie…
outh Africa thus joined New Zealand and Australia as WTC champions. Three winners in three editions. Having a quiet ride they sent a second-string team to New Zealand a year ago. They have won nine Tests under Temba Bavuma’s captaincy without a defeat. They were behind the game in the final for two days in…
The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run Africa Corps, diplomatic and security sources told AFP on Sunday. “Officially, Wagner is no longer present in Mali. But the Africa Corps is stepping up,” one diplomatic source in the Sahel region said. A Telegram account…
A Canadian diplomat who was held captive by al-Qaida terrorists in the Sahara Desert for 130 days says Canada’s promised boost to defence should include commitments to combatting the growing Islamic terrorism threat in Africa — a threat he says isn’t getting the attention it deserves. Robert Fowler says it would take “a very large…
It takes at least two countries to make a deportation happen: one to send deportees and one to receive them. Typically, the receiving country agrees to take back its own citizens, but the Trump administration is developing other options. The U.S. has sent hundreds of deportees, most of whom appear to be Venezuelans, to El…
A DRIVER has tracked his car stolen from outside his home — as it was spirited 6,849 miles away to Tanzania. Jimmy Munday, 44, had hidden an Apple AirTag in the £50,000 Range Rover. 3 Jimmy Munday tracked his car stolen from outside his home — as it was spirited 6,849 miles away to Tanzania…
Koyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in Switzerland. She was 57. Her death was confirmed by the biennale’s organizers. The announcement did not cite a cause or say where in Switzerland she…
When Pope Leo XIV emerged on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new head of the Catholic Church on Thursday, the Rev. Lawrence Ndlovu of Johannesburg could not help but wonder at the shade of his skin. “‘You’re not the classical white sort of person,’” Father Ndlovu said he had been thinking while…
When Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, returned from the Group of 20 summit in Brazil last November, he made a stopover in Casablanca, where he was greeted with dates and milk, the traditional welcome for honored guests, and a meeting with Crown Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco. The brief visit was a sign of the…
The walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are aging plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the cathedral’s half-finished foundations fill with rainwater. Ghana’s former president, Nana Akufo-Addo, spent around $58 million of…
