Month: August 2024

[ad_1] BBCTrhas Teklehaimanot has been invited by cycling’s global governing body to join the Refugee TeamA gold medal-winning cyclist who has been invited to race in the world championships in September is waiting on an asylum interview to determine whether she can go.Trhas Teklehaimanot was a national champion in Ethiopia but is now living in London as an asylum seeker, after she says conflict left her country unsafe to return […]

[ad_1] AFPSudan is classed as the world's biggest humanitarian crisisFamine is ravaging Sudan.The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) - which claims to be the government of Sudan - took a small step towards alleviating that famine earlier this week by allowing 15 UN aid lorries to cross the border from Chad to bring food to the starving.Aid agencies hope that it opens the door to a full-scale relief effort that can […]

[ad_1] Getty ImagesA major player on South Africa's political landscape for more than a decade, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has been shaken to the core following the defection of its deputy leader Floyd Shivambu to former President Jacob Zuma's fledgling party - uMhkonto weSizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation. Mr Shivambu was seen as the EFF's ideological guru, while party leader Julius Malema assumed the mantle of commander-in-chief […]

[ad_1] Mercy Juma / BBCEgide Irambona, who thinks he contracted mpox from a friend, may have passed it on to his wife Egide Irambona, 40, sits bare-chested on his hospital bed, next to the window, in a treatment room that he shares with two other men.The rays of the evening sun shining above Burundi’s main city, Bujumbura, filter in. His face, bathed in a soft light, is covered in blisters. […]

[ad_1] Botswana's President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, had to use both hands to hold the world's second largest diamond."God is good," he exclaimed as the 2,492-carat stone was unveiled. A Canadian mining company, Lucara, discovered the diamond in the Karowe diamond mine. The world's largest stone was 3,106-carat and was found in South Africa in 1905.Read more about the huge stone here. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The Alabis' tale is particularly compelling because of the barriers they face in Nigeria.Both were affected by polio as children, which is why Christiana uses a wheelchair, while Kayode lost the use of his right leg and requires support to walk."I was the only child with a disability in my community, which made life very difficult," Christiana revealed."My disability made it hard to make friends and I was very […]

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[ad_1] Nigerian athletes Kayode and Christiana Alabi are set to make history at the Paralympic Games in Paris, as they will become the first African Para couple to compete at the multi-sport event.Their love story began in 2017 when they met during a national camp in Lagos and developed a mutual friendship that has blossomed to career successes.They spoke with BBC Sport Africa on their journey and aspirations at the […]