Tag: African
West African leaders meet over Niger coup, junta warns against intervention – EURACTIV.com
Niger’s military leaders warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African leaders are set to gather in Nigeria’s capital on Sunday (30 July) for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to restore constitutional order.
Heads of state of the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and the eight-member West African Economic and Monetary Union could suspend Niger from its institutions, cut off the country from the regional central bank
African, Caribbean nations join forces to call for reparations for slavery – EURACTIV.com
Representatives from various African and Caribbean entities joined forces at a historic event this week in the capital of Barbados, Bridgetown, to demand reparations for slavery and its legacy in today’s society.
The University of the West Indies (UWI), the Economic, Social and Cultural Council of the African Union (AU), Barbados’ government, grant-making network Open Society Foundations and the Caribbean Pan African Network teamed up to “call for reparations for historical crimes”.
The meeting in Bridgetown, from Monday to Thursday
Putin, at Summit With African Leaders, Casts West as Mutual Foe
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday pledged free grain for some African countries and accused the West of “telling lies” about the dormant deal that had allowed Ukrainian food exports, scrambling to shore up support among African leaders and casting his war in Ukraine as part of an increasingly global conflict.
Mr. Putin hosted around 20 African leaders for the start of a two-day summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, drawing a significant contingent of officials from across the
Photos Suggest Prigozhin Is in Russia, Meeting African Officials
Unverified photographs began circulating on social media Thursday suggesting that Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the Russian mercenary boss who led a short-lived mutiny in June, was meeting with African officials in St. Petersburg, where some of the continent’s top leaders have converged for a summit with President Vladimir V. Putin.
The whereabouts and status of Mr. Prigozhin, a caterer-turned-warlord, have been the subject of continuing questions since he tried to topple the Russian defense leadership last month, posing the biggest security
African Union calls on Russia to reinstate Ukrainian grain deal – POLITICO
The African Union called today to urgently reinstate a United Nations-brokered deal allowing Ukraine to export millions of tons of grain that was terminated at Russia’s behest.
“The problem of grains and fertilizers concerns everyone,” Comoros President Azali Assoumani, who heads the 55-nation African Union, told Russian state newswire RIA Novosti. He was speaking in St. Petersburg, where Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting a summit with African leaders.
Putin last week pulled out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative
4 dead, 4 injured after gunman opens fire at South African taxi stand
Gunmen who opened fire at a taxi stand in a small coastal South African town killed four people who were sitting in a minibus and wounded another four Tuesday, police said.
The motive for the attack was unknown, police said, but the killings mean 36 people have died in five separate mass shootings in South Africa since the start of the year.
MASSIVE GAS EXPLOSION SHATTERS SOUTH AFRICA STREETS DURING RUSH HOUR, FLIPPING CARS, CAUSING EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
The country of
Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal
COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of driver ants (Dorylus spp.). These voracious predators will march out of their underground nests and fan out into a meters-wide swarm, flushing out insects and worms from undergrowth. From the trees, birds swoop down to catch the fleeing insects. And where the ant swarms go, the birds follow.
Swarms make
Der wahrgewordene Traum von Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Oxford Dictionary of African American English
*(CNN) — Präsident der Universität Oxfords hat eine groß angelegte Studie angekündigt, die in der gipfeln wird Oxford Dictionary of African American Englishdie Idee eines Historikers Henry Louis Gates Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Beiträgen, die Afroamerikaner zur englischen Sprache geleistet haben.
Das Wörterbuch erscheint im Jahr 2025 und wird voraussichtlich etwa 1.000 Wörter umfassen.
„Die Herausgabe des Oxford Dictionary of African American
TikToks African Savannah Cat Scam Saga, erklärt
Die TikTok-Nutzerin @chloevmitchell behauptet, ein Tierheim habe ihr 900 US-Dollar für eine „African Savannah“-Katze berechnet. Wurde sie betrogen? Hier ist der Tee.
Der Satz „Adoptieren, nicht einkaufen“ ist eine landesweite Kampagne, die angehende Tierhalter dazu ermutigt, ihre Tiere aus einem bestehenden Tierheim zu retten, anstatt Hunderte oder Tausende von Dollar für einen „reinrassigen“ Züchter zu zahlen, der sich möglicherweise mehr auf Profit als auf das Wohlergehen eines Tieres konzentriert .
Das heißt jedoch nicht, dass Tierheime nicht auch ihre Kunden
Die ersten 10 Wörter des African American English Dictionary sind da
In einer aktuellen Online-Präsentation gaben Redakteure und Forscher, die an einem einzigartigen Wörterbuch für afroamerikanisches Englisch arbeiten, einen Status-Update zum Projekt. Während die Akademiker ihre verschiedenen Methoden erklärten, zeigten die Folien dahinter Wörter, die häufiger mit Twitter als mit Oxford in Verbindung gebracht werden: „Bussin“, wurde den virtuellen Teilnehmern gesagt, bedeute „beeindruckend“ oder „lecker“, während ein „Boo“ ein Liebhaber sei.
Das waren zwei der ersten 100 Wörter, die die Oxford University Press nach eigenen Angaben in das Oxford Dictionary of