Africa

Richard Turere’s Lion Lights are currently used in more than 2,000 homes in the country, according to the European Patent Office Exclusive News Kenyan inventor Richard Turere, who developed a device to ward off lions and other predators from livestock using light sequences, has been named as one of three finalists for the European Patent Office’s (EPO) Young Inventors Prize…

The intelligence officer was killed in an attack on a UN helicopter in DR Congo last year Exclusive News Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has honored UN peacekeeping personnel who had lost their lives in the line of duty, including Russia’s Lieutenant Colonel Alexey Mizyura, who was part of a reconnaissance team killed in a helicopter crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo…

The second Russia-Africa summit will take place in July in the ‘Venice of the north’ Exclusive News Russian presidentVladimir Putin has invited African leaders to attend the second Russia-Africa summit in St Petersburg in July, calling the event an opportunity to expand Moscow’s cooperation with nations across the continent. “I am sure that the second…

The West wants to keep Africa enslaved but nations now have the right to make their own decisions, according to Ugandan envoy Moses Kizige Exclusive News Uganda’s ambassador to Russia, Moses Kawaaluuko Kizige, has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to maintaining and improving its “good” relations with Moscow, according to RT News. In an interview with RT on the sidelines of…

Joint efforts with Moscow will position the continent to become a leader of the emerging multipolar world, says Anatoly Antonov Exclusive News Russia remains “firmly” committed to developing strategic partnerships with countries in Africa, Moscow’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, has said. “Through our joint efforts, the continent will become one of the leaders…

Fulgence Kayishema had been on the run for more than 20 years under a false identity, investigators say Exclusive News A former Rwandan police chief labelled one of the most wanted fugitives from the 1994 genocide in his home country has been arrested in South Africa. Fulgence Kayishema, 62, who is said to have been on the run for more than two decades, was apprehended in Paarl on…

Second-hand textile exports from the bloc have tripled over the past 20 years, according to the European Environment Agency Exclusive News The European Union is exporting about 90% of its used clothes and textile waste to Africa and Asia, a trend that is having a dire ecological impact, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned. The EEA has ranked textile waste as the…