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Discovering South Africa’s treasures beyond Cape Town
De Hoop Nature Reserve in South Africa. For Geoff York travel South Africa story
football
Elks receiver Eugene Lewis says mission to Africa changed his life
Edmonton Elks CFL receiver Eugene Lewis is shown holding a child in this handout image provided by World Vision Canada. Like many, Lewis had seen the commercials that ask for donations to help less fortunate children in Africa but nothing prepared him to see their plight up close and personal. This offseason, the Edmonton Elks receiver served as an ambassador with World Vision Canada and spent time on a mission to Africa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-World Vision Canada **MANDATORY CREDIT**
world
UN raises over $600-million to boost aid to Ethiopia
A police officer walks past the flags of Ethiopia and Eritrea ahead of Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki's visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
report on business
Barrick Gold reports lower-than-expected preliminary gold output for first quarter
FILE PHOTO: A small toy figure and gold imitation are seen in front of the Barrick logo in this illustration taken November 19, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
international business
Jefferies Financial and Japan’s SMBC expand alliance into Canada
FILE PHOTO: General view of Jefferies Financial Group offices in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo
international business
Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges
Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria April 4, 2024. REUTERS/ Abraham Achirga
world
Senegal swears in Africa’s youngest elected leader as president in a dramatic prison-to-palace rise
Bassirou Diomaye Faye holds a press conference after winning the presidential elections in Dakar, Senegal, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
world
Conversion therapy for LGBTQ people becoming increasingly common across Africa
Ugandan transgender woman Pretty Peter who fled her home and country in 2019, and wished to be identified by her chosen name out of concern for her safety, poses for a photograph in front of a portrait on the wall from a global project called "Where Love is Illegal", at the safe house where she now lives in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya Thursday, June 1, 2023. She says frightened members of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community are searching for a way to get out of the country and some have stayed indoors since new anti-gay legislation was signed on Monday. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
world
Two days after gunmen kidnapped 300 students in northwest Nigeria, some have lost hope of finding them
energy and resources
New US$1.3-billion energy fund launched for transmission links across Southern Africa
The sun shines over Komati Power Station in Middelburg, South Africa, Monday, June 19, 2023. The coal-fired plant was shut down to make way for a solar, wind and battery storage plant. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
theatre & performance
54ology playwright Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s lifelong theatrical project is hitting its stride
preferred - Donna-Michelle St. Bernard - photo by Graham Isador
energy and resources
Shell agrees to develop Nigerian gas field for Dangote fertilizer
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a logo of Shell petrol station in South East London, Britain, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/May James/File Photo
report on business
Canadian-owned mine, seized by Russian mercenaries in Africa, is helping fund the war in Ukraine
A convoy of Wagner mercenaries traveling between Bangui, in the Central African Republic, and the Cameroon border on Sept. 22, 2023. The death of the Wagner group’s leader has created a window of opportunity in the Central African Republic for Western powers to offer an alternative. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)
world
Terrorist threat is high in Africa conflict zones and Afghanistan, and rose in Europe, UN experts say in new report
FILE PHOTO: An Islamic State flag is seen in this picture illustration taken February 18, 2016. Picture taken February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
world
Collapse of goldmine in Tanzania kills 22, official says
An Acacia Mining operation mine in northeast Tanzania.
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world
As Canada seeks to define its place in the world, the fight for global influence has never been hotter
FILE PHOTO: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates at the Global Methane Pledge event during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 2, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo
international business
White House says it’s monitoring Red Sea attacks, not seeing big impact on holiday products
FILE PHOTO: People enjoy the water as a container ship crosses the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, September 5, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo
world
School spearheads China’s efforts to spread ideological influence among Africa’s ruling parties
The Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School
opinion
The Republican attack on the U.S. HIV program undercuts American influence
Robert Rotberg
politics
Elephant ivory and rhino horn imports banned by Ottawa
Items made of ivory and a rhino horn, front left, part of the collection of confiscated items held by Environment and Climate Change Canada, are shown during a news conference on the implementation of stricter measures to regulate the trade of certain wildlife items, particularly elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn, in Ottawa, on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
energy and resources
Germany pledges to invest €4-billion in green energy projects in Africa
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a press conference during the "Compact with Africa" investment summit in Berlin, Germany, November 20, 2023. REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen
obituary
John Saul became a leading Marxist scholar of Africa’s struggle for freedom
John S. Saul.
world
Israeli scientist who helped African farmers fight hunger is now a hostage of Hamas
Dr. Shoshan Haran, Founder and President of Fair Planet, who is among the hostages held by Hamas.
world
Johannesburg Pride marches for LGBTQ2S+ Ugandans after anti-gay law passed
Attendees sing and dance while taking part during the Johannesburg Pride Parade on October 28, 2023. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP) (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Key HIV program jeopardized by U.S. budget wrangling, endangering millions
Children play at the Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. The orphanage, which is heavily reliant on foreign donations, cares for over 100 children with HIV whose parents died of the disease and provides them with housing, care, and PEPFAR supplied anti-retroviral drugs. A U.S. foreign aid program that officials say has saved 25 million lives in Africa and elsewhere is being threatened by some Republicans who fear program funding might go to organizations that promote abortion. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
opinion
Coups in Niger, Gabon and beyond signify the real end of France’s empire in Africa
Richard Poplak
energy and resources
World is losing race to meet climate goals, president of COP28 summit says
COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber delivers his remarks during the Africa Climate Summit 2023 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on September 5, 2023. (Photo by Luis Tato / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
report on business
First Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent demands more say and financing
FILE — People walk on a road swept by flooding waters in Chikwawa, Malawi, Tuesday Jan. 25, 2022. Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage by tropical storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rains across southern Africa. uch of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what's to come. That can be deadly, with damage running in the billions of dollars. The first Africa Climate Summit opens this week in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to agriculture, is the lack of data collection that drives decisions as basic as when to plant and when to flee. (AP Photo, File)
world
Some in Africa are celebrating the coups. Many are fed up and desperate for change, analysts say
Residents gesture and hold a Gabon national flag as they celebrate in Libreville on August 30, 2023 after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television announcing they were "putting an end to the current regime" and scrapping official election results that had handed another term to veteran President Ali Bongo Ondimba. In a pre-dawn address, a group of officers declared "all the institutions of the republic" had been dissolved, the election results cancelled and the borders closed. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
world
Kremlin says ‘deliberate wrongdoing’ among possible causes of plane crash that killed Prigozhin
A view shows a framed photo of Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at his grave at the Porokhovskoye cemetery in Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 30, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
tennis
Fan favourite still trying to clear major hurdle
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 27: Ons Jabeur of Tunisia plays a forehand during a practice session ahead of the US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 27, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)