Southern Africa

Author of a draw against Brazil, the Ivorians are approaching the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympic Games football tournament. Beaten by France at the end of a crazy match, the South Africans are about to eliminate. The Egyptians still have a chance despite their defeat against Argentina. Three days after his victory against…

The day after the inauguration of the Tokyo Olympics, the African athletes experienced various fortunes involved on Saturday. In boxing, they took convincing first steps. And the Tunisian Mohamed Khalil Jendoubi has picked up a silver medal in taekwondo. In other sports and disciplines it was more complicated. BOXINGCameroonian Albert Mengue Ayissi climbed to the…

Antjie Krog is known all over the world for his emotional reports aimed at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and is above all a poet. She is the author of fifteen collections of poems whose themes range from critiques of apartheid to feminism, including the aging body, the cause of the marginalized but also the landscape as a metaphor and ecology. The issue of ecology…

At the 2016 Olympics in Rio, African delegations won 45 medals, including 10 gold. Will Africa do better at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics? Here are ten athletes and teams from the mainland to watch in Japan. Abdoul Razak Issoufou Alfaga (Taekwondo / Niger)With Cheick Cissé and Ruth Gbagbi (Ivory Coast) or Anthony Obame (Gabon),…

After Johnson & Johnson allied itself with Aspen, it is Pfizer / BioNTech's turn to partner with a South African company to produce its anticovid vaccine. The manufacturer has signed an agreement with the Biovac Institute, a semi-state company based in Cape Town. This will be the first time a Messenger RNA vaccine has been produced in Africa. Target: 100 million doses per year by 2023. Production…

In Tokyo, on Saturday 24 July, there will be 11 African runners from the 130 competitors, representing 7 different nations, to take part in the Olympic road race, such as Burkinabè Paul Domont or the Algerian Hamza Mansouri. But on a very demanding course where the competition will be tough, we should not expect miracles from them.…

In South Africa, donations of food and essentials have been introduced throughout the weekend. The destruction of hundreds of shops and supermarkets in the KwaZulu-Natal region put pressure on the poorest populations, and for a few days it was difficult to find bread or at prices far above normal. With our special correspondent…

South Africa celebrates the memory of former President Nelson Mandela. Known as "Mandela Day", this day aims to hire him. Each person can donate 67 minutes of their time to a good cause. This year, after several days of looting in the country, it is the clean-up operations that have become apparent. In the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal regions, several communities have come together to clean up companies…

The 2021 edition of the Global Peace Index, an index from the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based think tank, sees five African countries ranked among the ten least peaceful nations in the world. South Africa has been on fire since the imprisonment of its former president Jacob Zuma. It is likely to be included next year in the list of least…

KwaZulu-Natal is the province most affected by the spiral of violence that has shaken South Africa in recent days, with 180 dead out of a total of more than 200 killed in the wake of ex-president Jacob Zuma's prison. It is in this region that President Cyril Ramaphosa visited on Friday, July 16, to assess the damage. The Minister of Police was also present this Saturday, July 17, as well as figures from…