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africa-wide african union endorses eac forced deployment to democratic republic of congo
the african union has endorsed the decision by the east african community leaders to deploy a
regional force to restore peace and stability in eastern democratic republic of congo in a
statement au commissioned chairperson mausa [ __ ] muhammad commended the leaders for their common
efforts in finding a sustainable solution to the situation of the eastern democratic
republic of congo and the great lakes region as a whole last week in a meeting in nairobi eac
leaders urged rebel groups in democratic republic of congo to lay down their arms
and they invited them for talks in kenya the leaders agreed that should the armed groups not
heed to the call for dialogue they will deploy a regional force against to maintain
peace and stability in eastern democratic republic of congo the meeting between democratic republic
of congo president and the armed groups initially failed to take off due to logistical challenges
according to officials but a few armed groups were able to meet last week for talks
worldwide elon musk strikes deal to buy twitter for 44 billion dollars the board of twitter has
agreed to a 44 billion dollar or 34.5 billion pound takeover from the billionaire elon musk
mr musk who made the shock bid less than two weeks ago say twitter had tremendous potential
that he would unlock he also called for a series of changes from relaxing its content
restrictions to eradicating fake accounts the firm initially rebuffed mr elon musk's
bid but it will now ask shareholders to vote to approve the deal mr musk is the world's richest
person according to forbes magazine with an estimated net worth of 273.6 billion dollars
mostly due to his shareholding in electric vehicle maker tesla which he runs he also
leads the aerospace firm spacex in a statement announcing the deal mr musk said that free speech
is the bedrock of a functioning democracy and twitter is the digital town square where mata
is vital to the future of humanity are debated adding that he would make twitter better than
ever by enhancing the product with new features making the algorithm open source to increase
trust defeating spambots and authenticating all humans the move comes as twitter faces
growing pressure from politicians and regulators over the content that appears on its platform
it has drawn critics from left and right over its efforts to mediate misinformation on the platform
southern africa historic return of rhinos at xenavi national park after 40 years the government
of mozambique and south africa have announced plans to reintroduce rhino species to the zinavi
national park in southern mozambique which became extinct 40 years ago maputo and pretoria jointly
approved the reintroduction of more than 40 rhinos to a special constructed high security sanctuary
within the 4 000 square kilometers or 1 540 square mile park the rhinos will be translocated
from south africa over a period of one to two years the project is being spearheaded by the
south african non-governmental organization peace parks foundation and axara resources
company which is a coal and mining firm since 2016 a rewilding program has reintroduced more than 2
300 animals representing 14 species including buffaloes elephants and leopards into the park in
2002 mozambique south africa and zimbabwe entered into a treaty to establish the great limpopo
trans-frontier conservation area spanning over thousand square kilometers or three thousand eight
hundred and sixty square miles and incorporating five national parks including the iconic kruger
national park de geneve park however lies in the shadows of a dark past when it was ravaged during
the mozambique civil war that ended in 1992 and subsequent poaching angola angola's historic first
oil platform to be launched in june president of angola joao lorenko has disclosed that the
southern african nation will launch her historic first oil platform in june president lorenko made
the disclosure during a three-day visit to kabinda province during which the project was presented to
him the sea swift offshore platform named lifoa a is under construction at the malone camp in
cabinda province and should be launched into the sea in a few weeks sea swift is a minimum
facility offshore platform for rapid returns in shallow waters using well conductors as
the structural support for the topside sea swift minimizes build and implementation
times the platforms offer a low-risk low-cost route to reduced time to first oil and lower
capital investment supported by kabindar gulf oil company limited the project required a budget of
60 million dollars the project which is part of the upturn in the angolan oil sector is
intended to create 400 direct jobs and will have its entry into production in late 2023
uganda uganda beats 13 teams to win the 2022 african rugby sevens the ugandan rugby team has
defeated 13 countries in grand style to win the 2022 africa rugby sevens in a game that concluded
2212 kenya was ousted by uganda who played on a saturated turf at home the rugby cranes remained
composed and improved game by game defeating zimbabwe 26 neil to win the championships
uganda like zimbabwe and kenya has a difficult season ahead of them in terms of tournament
preparation they have only a few months to be in condition to compete with fiji the united kingdom
samoa and new zealand 14 teams took part in the tournament including rising stars burundi
senegal and bukhina faso drawing a promising scene and more representation of the continent at the
international rugby board circuit the uganda national sevens team biggest accomplishments
has been to win a birth at the 2016 dubai sevens the 2022 africa men's sevens are
an annual africa rugby sevens tournament that took place at the kyodondo rugby club
in kampala between 23rd and 24th april 2022 they were held in uganda for the second time
democratic republic of congo papa wemba's house transformed into rumba museum
the kingshasa residence of congolese star singer papawemba was transformed into a
museum of congolese rumba on april 24th opened to the public in the democratic republic of congo
six years after the artist's death on stage after papawemba's death in abhijan in 2016 the congolese
government decided to buy his main residence a luxurious villa located in the heights of
the porsche campaign neighborhood in the western part of kingshasa at the entrance an image of the
congolese star's arms raised is engraved on the gates in the living room of this sumptuous villa
seven hearts of this congolese music icon are in display the attention is immediately drawn to the
golden sculpture of an angel that sits next to a black and white portrait of the king of rumba
present at the ceremony the leader of the ivorian group magic system hoped that all
artistic categories would be represented in the museum because papa wemba was a complete artist
the congolese idol died on stage on 24 april 2016 while participating in the ninth edition of the
ano mabu urban music festival organized by magic system father of six children dressing in the
finest fashion houses papa wemba had been one of the most popular african singers for over 40 years
with his high voice and flamboyant personality he was one of the great figures of congolese rumba
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