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Four candidates to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations will audition for the job this week, far fewer than there were 10 years ago when António Guterres was selected as UN chief. Chile’s former President Michelle Bachelet — one of two women and one of three from Latin America — will be the

Set along the Kwanza River, the sanctuary became a pilgrimage destination after reported Marian apparitions in the 19th century. Yet the Church of Our Lady of Muxima was originally built by Portuguese colonizers in the late 16th century as part of a fortress linked to slavery.   Enslaved Africans were gathered there, baptized by priests,

The largest performing arts market on the African continent is back in Abidjan. The 2026 edition of MASA took over the capital’s Culture Palace with hundreds of diverse shows — ranging from storytelling and contemporary dance to music and street art —for an audience of all ages that has come out in droves. Among the

Prominent Pan-African and pro-Russian activist Kemi Seba has applied for political asylum in South Africa, where he is being detained for breaching immigration laws, his lawyer told AFP Monday. Seba, born in France to parents from Benin, was arrested in South Africa a week agoand is wanted in Benin on charges of inciting rebellion after backing

Roelf Meyer will replace the South African ambassador who was expelled from the US by President Donald Trump in 2025. South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, who helped negotiate the end of white minority rule in his country in the 1990s, as the next ambassador to the United States, according to local media. Meyer’s appointment