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Louisiana youths held at adult prison's old death row suffer heat, isolation, advocates say

Advocates for juveniles held in a former death row building at a Louisiana prison for adults say the youths are suffering through dangerous heat and psychologically damaging isolation in their prison cells with little or no mental health care, inadequate schooling and foul water

The Independent UK

‘Hardest Geezer’ is trying to run the entire length of Africa

West Sussex’s Russell Cook to become first person to run the length of the continent

Evening Standard

Isolated, no air conditioning: Louisiana youth in solitary cells amid heat, ACLU says

The children allege they are given only few minutes outside their cells, with some even being maced

The Guardian - US

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Native giraffes are once again roaming in Angola

Native giraffes are once again roaming a national park in Angola, decades after they were driven to extinction in the country, most likely by its long-running civil war. Fourteen young giraffes were transported to Iona National Park from a game reserve in Namibia last week. Some Angolan giraffes, which are a subspecies…

The Week

Painted messages in Angola's abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record

In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN NGOYI” recall a figure little-known in Angola but familiar to South Africans: anti-apartheid leader Lilian Ngoyi.

The Conversation

Driven out by decades of conflict, native giraffes make a return to Angola

In a ‘message of hope’ the animals have been brought in from Namibia to establish a group in their historical homeland

The Guardian - UK

Kissinger at 100: How his ‘sordid’ diplomacy in Africa fuelled war in Angola and prolonged apartheid

Historians say the involvement in Africa of the former US secretary of state, who is 100 this week, drew the US into Angola’s war and aided apartheid after the Soweto uprising

The Guardian - UK

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Kissinger at 100: The ‘bloody, dreadful, filthy’ Angolan civil war – in pictures

The Guardian visited Angola in 2001 as the long civil war – aggravated by the interventions of Henry Kissinger – between Unita and the government wound down. The images show how the conflict affected the people and landscape around the city of Kuito in Bie province

The Guardian - UK

Angola's Lourenco: 'I don't believe we will have a war between Rwanda and DR Congo'

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Angola's President Joao Lourenco said he did not think an all-out war between Rwanda and DR Congo was on the horizon. He said he was hopeful that his mediation efforts to restore peace in DR Congo's east would bear fruit. Lourenco explained that the…

France 24

Terrifying moment flight turbulence causes panic with food and drink thrown everywhere

Influencer Diana Assis was travelling from Angola to Portugal when the plane experienced severe turbulence that left food and drinks scattered around the cabin - and some passengers allegedly injured

Daily Mirror

Dozens raped as migrant workers expelled from Angola to Congo

Congolese women and children have been raped and subjected to other abuses during a mass expulsion of migrant workers from Angola to Democratic Republic of Congo, a doctor, officials and the United Nations said.

Reuters

Chris Hughton confirms why he didn't play Thomas Partey for Ghana in AFCON qualifier

Arsenal star Thomas Partey was an unused substitute for Ghana's draw with Angola on Monday night, sparking fears that the midfielder had been hit by injury ahead of the Premier League run-in

Daily Mirror

Thomas Partey injury: Arsenal midfielder forced to sit out of Ghana’s draw with Angola

Key Gunners star left on the bench during AFCON qualifier

Evening Standard

Okavango Delta residents worry over low flood water levels

Livelihoods, wildlife depending on the river at risk amid growing impacts of climate change

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Arsenal's big Thomas Partey decision spotted as Mikel Arteta reveals wish ahead of Leeds clash

Thomas Partey has arrived in Ghana for the Africa Cup of Nations qualification double-header against Angola and it appears a special plan is in place for the Arsenal midfielder

Reuters

Angola to deploy troops in Congo's rebel-hit east

Angola will send 500 soldiers to neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo to secure areas held by the M23 rebel group after the southern African country's parliament approved the deployment on Friday.

The Conversation

Jimmy Carter's African legacy: peacemaker, negotiator and defender of rights

When historians and pundits praise Jimmy Carter’s achievements as the US president and extol his exemplary post-presidential years, they mention the recognition of China, the Panama Canal Treaties and the Camp David Accords. Almost no one mentions what Carter achieved in Africa during his presidency. This is a serious oversight.

Radio France Internationale

France's Macron hails renewed economic ties with Angola

French President Emmanuel Macron has inked an economic deal with Angola, the second country on his four-nation tour of central Africa aimed at renewing frayed ties with the continent and developing different kinds of partnerships.

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France 24

France's Macron pushes economic ties in Angola

Traversing three capital cities in hours, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday pursued his African tour aimed at renewing frayed ties.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US, Qatar, Egypt Supply Europe’s LNG Demand

European imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) rose by 63 % in 2022, to compensate for the interruption of supplies through Russian gas pipelines. LNG imported by Europe increased by 66 bcm, according to a recent report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). While the US supplied approximately two-thirds (43…

France 24

France's strategy in Africa: Macron unveils changing military, economic agenda

With France's influence waning in Africa, it was time to push reset. President Emmanuel Macron has laid out a revamped strategy for the continent. He has insisted Africa is a priority of his second term as president. Indeed, this week he will head there for the second time since being…

France 24

France must demonstrate 'profound humility' toward Africa, Macron says ahead of four-nation trip

President Emmanuel Macron on Monday outlined France's new strategy for Africa, where anti-French sentiment runs high in some of its former colonies. Ahead of a visit to Gabon, Angola, Congo-Brazzaville and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Macron said that France needs to demonstrate a "profound humility" in Africa.

The Guardian - UK

Eduardo Camavinga: ‘People think Madrid are dead, but Madrid are never, never dead’

Before Liverpool tie the midfielder discusses leaving Angola, his straight-talking parents and last season’s Champions League win

Al Jazeera

Russia’s FM Lavrov meets Eritrean president on Africa tour

Foreign minister’s trip to Eritrea comes as part of his Africa tour which took him to South Africa, Angola and Eswatini.

The Conversation

Russia rekindles old friendship with South Africa, its ally against apartheid

The recent announcement that the South African, Russian and Chinese navies will conduct joint exercises off the east coast of South Africa between February 17 and 27, has alarmed the United States. Washington has condemned the decision as the exercises would appear to compromise South African neutrality in the diplomatic…

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