Germany’s beloved Christmas market season begins earlier than ever in 2025, transforming city squares into glowing hubs of music, scent, and joy. These festive gatherings are more than seasonal entertainment — they are spaces for community connection, cross-cultural experience and family fun. In the north, Hamburg leads the way, opening its markets from 24 November 2025. The historic Rathausmarkt Christmas …
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Climate-Driven Displacement Reaches Critical Levels, UN warns
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has raised alarm over the growing intersection between climate change and forced displacement, warning that by mid-2025 around 86 million displaced people were living in countries facing extreme climate risks such as droughts, floods and heatwaves. The agency reported that the total number of people forcibly displaced worldwide reached 117 million this …
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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF), in partnership with Nyima’s Bantaba Media Platform, is spotlighting changemakers who are transforming narratives and reshaping Africa’s future. As part of a series of interview publications (VOD & Podcast), Nyima’s Bantaba Media Platform profiles four innovators across East and Southern Africa who are not only talking about change but building it from the …
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THE AFRICAN COURIER. Reporting Africa and its Diaspora! The African Courier is an international magazine published in Germany to report on Africa and the Diaspora African experience. The first issue of the bimonthly magazine appeared on the newsstands on 15 February 1998. The African Courier is a communication forum for European-African political, economic and cultural exchanges, and a voice for Africa in Europe.