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As fast fashion’s waste pollutes environment, Ghana designers find a solution
ACCRA, Ghana — In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used and low-quality apparel imported from the West. At the other end of the street, an upcycled fashion and...
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China wins hearts and minds as it steps into void left by BBC World Service cuts
During the Cold War, when pretty much every African state was a dictatorship, the World Service’s signature tune, Lilliburlero, followed by its famous pips were instantly recognisable across the continent. “The BBC was the dominant global broadcaster,” recalls Yusuf Hassan Abdi, a Kenyan MP from the country’s Somali minority who worked at the BBC for...
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TikTok’s 2023 revenue rises 75% in Europe, UK and other markets outside US, Asia
ByteDance-owned international short video-platform TikTok has reported total revenue of US$4.6 billion in 2023, an increase of nearly 75 per cent from a year earlier, in markets excluding the United States, Asia and Oceania. TikTok, which has more than 1 billion users worldwide, attributed that rise to “the continued growth of [its] user base”, “enhanced...
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UK agrees to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The United Kingdom has announced it is giving up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that will secure the future of a key US military base on the atoll of Diego Garcia while allowing islanders displaced for the past five decades a right of return. The deal, announced jointly by the...
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Why is Kenya investigating alleged abuse by UK soldiers?
Kenya this week kick-started public hearings into widespread allegations that United Kingdom soldiers stationed in the East African country have committed multiple human rights violations. For over a decade, locals on different occasions accused British soldiers training in towns in central Kenya of misconduct, environmental degradation, murder, and a host of other serious offences. The...
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‘Can’t give them jobs’: Rwandans grapple with fears over UK asylum plan
Kigali, Rwanda – Lush hills draped in verdure belie the controversies surrounding two locations in Kigali that may soon host hundreds of people who had no plans of ever living in Rwanda. In northern Kigali, Hope Hostel sits on a hill overlooking the capital. Across town in the southwest sits the Bwiza Riverside Estate, where...