We are going on a publication break for two weeks to exhale. While we’re away, the next edition of The Atlas – our international co-publication with Coda Story – will be delivered to subscribers of The Continent via your usual channels on...
Lebanon has handed 37 artefacts back to Egypt at a ceremony at the National Museum of Beirut. The artefacts date back to the pharaonic civilisation and were smuggled into Lebanon six years ago. Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé said the...
Amnesty International has urged Algeria to back off plans to restore the death penalty for those guilty of arson, calling it a “severe blow” to human rights. After a deadly wildfire killed 12 people last month, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune...
More than 49 people have died after consuming a herbal drink in Ondo State. The state health commissioner said 170 others were hospitalised, the Punch newspaper reports. The producer of the locally made concoction was arrested on...
Israel and Morocco have agreed to level up their relationship by opening embassies in each other’s countries and appointing ambassadors. Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Israeli counterpart Gideon Sa’ar met in the United...
An awful lot of plastic and discarded fishing gear is washing up along the shores of the Seychelles, devastating fragile marine ecosystems and local economies. Computer simulations by two researchers at the University of Oxford show...
