/ Shows / Eye on Africa Issued on: 02/05/2023 – 23:13 12:00 In tonight’s edition: A new week long truce is agreed in Sudan as the African Union holds an emergency meeting in Ethiopia on how to de-escalate the conflict that’s already cost at least 500 lives in under 3 weeks. Ugandan lawmakers pass a new version of an already harsh anti-LGBT bill. And dozens of Beninese craftsmen brush up on the skills needed to restore the royal palaces of the former Dahomey Kingdom. Read more on related topics:
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Warring generals in Sudan have agreed “in principle” to a seven-day ceasefire, the government of neighbouring South Sudan said Tuesday, after regional envoys denounced repeated violations of previous truces. Diplomatic efforts have intensified to end more than two weeks of war in Africa’s third-largest country as warnings multiply about a “catastrophic” humanitarian crisis.More than 430,000 people have already been forced to flee their homes, the United Nations said.Hundreds of others have been killed and thousands wounded. Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), “have agreed in…
Issued on: 02/05/2023 – 18:23Modified: 02/05/2023 – 18:29 01:38 In Democratic Republic of Congo, rebel attacks are on the rise in one of the country’s lesser known insurgencies, that in Ituri province. 8 farmers were killed by CODECO militants on Suday. Over half a million people have been displaced over the past few months since the armed group ramped up raids. Laurent Berstecher tells us more. Read more on related topics:
Pressure is mounting on the authorities in Burkina Faso after more than 150 civilians were massacred by uniformed men in northern villages. At a press conference on Saturday, FRANCE 24 spoke to a representative for the victims, who reiterated accusations against members of the defence and security forces. A woman was shot three times as she tried to escape, collapsing at the entrance to her village. Left for dead by her attackers, she was eventually spotted by a motorbike taxi driver and taken to hospital. She was one of the few survivors of the massacre in Karma, in northern Burkina…
Book Review of The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales The Children’s Book Review Written by Jen Campbell Illustrated by Adam de Souza Ages: 9+ | 120 Pages Publisher: Thames & Hudson | ISBN: 9780500652589 What to Expect: Gothic horror, magic, queer characters, disability, and folk tales. Written and conceptualized in a manner similar to Angela Carter’s fairy-tale adaptations (but without the adult content), The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers is a masterful collection of gruesome, beautiful, witty, diverse stories. Forget about helpless princesses, heroic princes, and happily-ever-after endings. Real fairy tales – the ones that real people…
Issued on: 02/05/2023 – 18:27Modified: 02/05/2023 – 18:31 01:46 © france24 This is the decade of digitilisation for Africa. It’s one of the most powerful tools in helping the continent deliver on it’s plans bet they economic, social, environmental. Technology is key to Africa’s future as it is the world’s, so policy makers, investors and makers headed to Zimbabwe for a summit aimed at keeping the continent at the cutting edge of technology. FRANCE 24’s correspondents report. Read more on related topics:
The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza – Hills Youth Theatre Seniors Presented by the Hills Youth Theatre Seniors at Stirling Community Theatre, written by Don Zolidis and directed by Ben Proeve. Two battling narrators attempt to cover the entirety of Greek mythology using audience participation, cross-dressing, and general theatrical insanity. Famous myths such as Pandora’s Box, Jason and the Argonauts (the original Super Friends), and Hercules: Intern God jostle for space with obscure, weird myths such as the myth of Linus and the legend of the Argus. Culminating in a bizarre, musical dance-influenced version of The Iliad complete with a full-scale battle of…
Issued on: 02/05/2023 – 14:08Modified: 02/05/2023 – 15:17 01:49 Sudan’s war has forced 100,000 people to flee over its borders and fighting now its third week is creating a humanitarian crisis, U.N. officials said on Tuesday as gunfire and explosions echoed across the capital despite another ceasefire deal. The conflict risks morphing into a broader disaster as Sudan’s impoverished neighbours deal with a refugee crunch and fighting hampers aid deliveries in a nation where two-thirds of people already rely on some outside assistance. FRANCE 24’s Charli James tells us more. Read more on related topics:
More than 100,000 people have fled Sudan for neighboring countries and more than 300,000 have been internally displaced, according to figures released by United Nations agencies on Tuesday, as the fighting between rival generals threatened to undermine regional stability and tear apart Africa’s third-largest nation.The United Nations refugee agency also warned that more than 800,000 people could try to escape the conflict in Sudan by the end of this year to the seven nations bordering the northeastern African country — many of them already reeling from a multitude of their own economic, political and refugee crises.The clashes between the Sudanese…
Issued on: 02/05/2023 – 14:12Modified: 02/05/2023 – 15:19 01:15 The UN on Monday warned more than 800,000 people could flee fighting and dire conditions in Sudan, where explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce extension agreed by warring generals. Egypt, in an Arab League emergency meeting in Cairo, proposed a draft resolution Monday that called for an “immediate and comprehensive cessation” of fighting. FRANCE 24’s Andrew Hilliar and Léo Paichard tell us more. Read more on related topics: