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Overnight News Digest: Let's Look at Africa [1]

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Date: 2022-11-18

From Africa (from the tomb of Tutankhamun, of course)

We often skip over Africa, including one or two articles. I thought it would be a good time to focus on it for a change.

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The BBC has pictures of the week from Africa.

We begin with a couple of pan-African stories, beginning with this from CNN:

Activists hoped Egypt’s COP27 would bring a focus on Africa. They were disappointed Ivana Kottasová By Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt CNN — The crowd was loving what Bhekumuzi Bhebhe had to say, cheering loudly as he yelled “don’t gas Africa!” into the megaphone. Standing under the baking Egyptian sun at the COP27 UN climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Tuesday, Bhebhe, a South Africa-based climate campaigner, was protesting against what he says is an attempt by rich countries to bribe Africa into investing in planet-warming fossil fuels.

From Quart:

For Africa to prosper, Africans need to be able to move Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, stresses the importance of easy travel within Africa By Ciku Kimeria In 1960, the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila made history in Rome as the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold, even as he broke the marathon world record. All this was made more remarkable by the fact that he ran completely barefoot. Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), recounted this story to Quartz as an analogy for his unbridled optimism in the continent’s future.

Below the fold, Africa counterclockwise, starting with Egypt.

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