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Welcome Africa has added to its team of collaborators Nagash Diallo, artist, author and social and cultural anthropologist, whose life and professional trajectory embodies many of the complexities of migrant identities in Europe today. A child of the diaspora...

The governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have taken a decisive step towards economic integration with the creation of the Confederal Bank for Investment and Development, with an initial capital of 500 billion CFA francs (about 820 billion CFA francs), which will...

En los últimos años, la población extranjera ha desempeñado un papel decisivo en la evolución del mercado laboral español. Según un análisis publicado por el Banco de España, el crecimiento del empleo desde 2019 se ha concentrado en su mayoría…

In a hopeful turn for the country's future, many Burkina Faso professionals living abroad - including scientists, doctors and engineers - are returning to their homeland. This phenomenon marks a turning point for the country...

The President of Namibia, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, paid a two-day working visit to Tanzania, where she was received with honours by President Samia Suluhu Hassan. The agenda included high-level meetings in which the two leaders discussed the...

The legendary Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour staged an emotional artistic reunion with Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new African gallery in New York. The evening, charged with symbolism and cultural pride, was...

On 28 May, the Théâtre National Daniel Sorano in Dakar was the venue for the closing ceremony of the second edition of the Tierra Firme programme. The ceremony brought together institutional authorities, youth employment specialists and the protagonists of the programme....

In Inhambane Bay, Mozambique, the Khessani Cooperative is promoting a pioneering project that combines environmental conservation, economic development and gender equity. Under the leadership of the Women for Africa Foundation, in collaboration with Duna Lodge and with the support of...

The world of literature bids farewell to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of the great thinkers and storytellers of the 20th and 21st century. A Kenyan writer born in 1938, he dedicated his work to questioning the legacies of colonialism and reclaiming the...

Institutional ties have been strengthened this week in Senegal around the Tierra Firme training programme, an initiative promoted by the Directorate of Relations with Africa of the Government of the Canary Islands together with the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and the...