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The many faces of Africa around the world remains largely unheralded, unknown and at times, mythical. Weekly, our editors identify various subjects about Africa and unpack them for you.
NEWS LINKS
Following are direct links to international media sources with different perspectives to events taking place in Africa. Just press the desired source and you will be connected.
Like many others, I was surprised and upset to hear about the UK’s new deal to offload its responsibility to tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Rwanda. The plan is for Rwanda to process and host such refugees indefinitely.
Travelling to faraway lands as a black African is the theme woven through the 10th Brunel International African Poetry Prize winner Zibusiso Mpofu’s work. Judges praised the Zimbabwean writer, whose lyrical poems they said, ‘open a new itinerary in African poetry.’
South African travelers have accused low-cost airline Ryanair of racial discrimination for making them take a general knowledge test in Afrikaans to prove their nationality before allowing them to board flights in the UK and Europe.
