Ghana’s new president promised to reset the nation as he was sworn in this Tuesday. It’s not John Mahama’s first turn in the hot seat, since he ran the country for four years prior to his predecessor Nana Akufo-Addo’s two terms in office. Mahama’s landslide comeback in December was carried by voters’ hopes for change after a tough economic chapter for the country.
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According to its chief editor Hinda Abdi Mohamoud, Bilan Media gives Somali women “a space to work” and “real editorial power”. Somalia’s first female-only media outlet covers topics including climate change, people living with albinism and HIV/AIDS, while also encouranging period education for young girls. However, it’s not an easy industry for Somali women to work in. “You can get trapped […] you can be attacked,” our guest explains. But this seems to make her even more determined: “It’s the thing that we want to change […] that people believe that women cannot do the hard work.” She spoke to us…
An interview about The Light of Home with Hoda Hadadi and Diana Farid. In a heartfelt conversation about The Light of Home, Diana Farid reaches across continents to her collaborator, telling Hadadi, “You walk the same ground and see the same mountains that my parents, grandparents, and the generations of my family as far back as I know have walked — places I have never been to or seen myself.” Hadadi shares how deeply personal this project became: “It was impossible to say no to this story because of how many knots and links it had with my life—past and…
The Adelaide Motorsport Festival is a two-day festival of all things motorsport returning to Victoria Park in March 2025. Held the week prior to the Australian Grand Prix, the Adelaide Motorsport Festival is a museum in motion, displaying historic, rare and significant racing vehicles in the heart of Adelaide. The circuit is comprised of the Victoria Park section of the original Adelaide Grand Prix track with excellent viewing opportunities. The 2025 Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival will showcase up to 18 cars on track at any one time across a number of different categories. It combines high-octane action on-track with…
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertGilbert’s disarmingly honest, soul searching novel is based on her real-life experience as a down-and-out divorcee who spends a year traveling abroad in search of revitalization. This lyrical, uplifting, and often humorous story explores Italian decadence, yogic pilgrimage in India, and spiritual wanderings in Indonesia, while also covering the more figurative distance from an unhappy marriage to a newfound sense of self, friendship and, of course, romance. Get ready for some continent skipping.Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel ProustFrom the French Riviera to Paris and the rich countryside in between, Proust details the upheaval and…
As France celebrates half a century of legal abortion, FRANCE 24’s Oliver Farry welcomes Kei Yoshida, Senior Legal Advisor at the Center for Reproductive Rights, offering an in-depth look at women’s health, reproductive rights, and the progressive trend spanning the globe.
At least 19 people were killed when gunmen attacked Chad’s presidential complex in the capital N’Djamena on Wednesday, according to the government. Shortly afterward, Infrastructure Minister Aziz Mahamat Saleh said the situation was “under control.”
A former finance minister of Mozambique who was accused of helping facilitate a multibillion-dollar fraud that nearly pushed his country’s economy into catastrophe has been ordered to spend eight and a half years in prison and pay $7 million in forfeiture, prosecutors said.The sentencing was handed down after a four-week trial that ended in August in which Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn determined that the former minister, Manuel Chang, 69, had conspired to commit wire fraud and money laundering through an international scheme that bilked a number of international investors out of about $2…
The world’s largest humanitarian disaster continues to claim victims as the war in Sudan drags on. On Wednesday, 20 months into the conflict, the US called the actions of one half of the conflict genocidal and imposed sanctions on its leader. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, leads the RSF paramilitary forces that have been battling the army for control of the country since April 2023. But the army has also been accused of atrocities in a war that’s claimed an estimated 150,000 lives.
Calm had returned to the Chadian capital N’Djamena, a spokesman for the military-ruled government said Thursday after an armed attack on the presidential palace by a 24-member commando unit the previous day was crushed.