By Agence France-Presse US First Lady Jill Biden arrived in Kenya on Friday, kicking off a visit aimed at focusing attention on the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades. Five straight seasons of poor rainfall have killed millions of livestock, destroyed crops and left some 22 million people at risk of […]
By Agence France-Presse UNESCO declared Manx Gaelic extinct in 2009. Years later, a letter from a primary school on the Isle of Man proved them wrong, so the organisation took a step back and set up a new category: revitalised languages. When 97-year-old fisherman Ned Maddrell died in 1974, his native language, Manx Gaelic, died […]
By Agence France-Presse On a normal day, Balogun Market in Nigeria’s Lagos is packed with shoppers looking for a bargain on anything from clothes, to freshly cooked street food or cut-price electronics. But, as Nigerians head to the polls for Saturday’s presidential election, although the aroma of spices and the cacophony of hawkers selling their […]