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Petition urges company to drop trademark on Swahili phrase before summer release of Lion King remake More than 50,000 people have signed a petition accusing Disney of “colonialism and robbery” after it trademarked the Swahili phrase “hakuna matata”. The expression means “no problem” in Swahili, which is spoken across east Africa and is a national language of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Continue reading...

When Temie Giwa-Tubosun realised Nigerians lacked safe access to vital health care products like blood she decided to do something about it. That decision changed her life and saved those of many others Temie Giwa-Tubosun is the founder and CEO of blood-delivery start-up LifeBank , a company that is saving lives in Nigeria. Her latest challenge, a World Bank Project for which she is on the advisory board, lies beyond Nigeria – the Lake Victoria Challenge is a competition using drones to transport health support to hard to reach rural communities living around Lake Victoria in East Africa. Her work has earned her the title of one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2014 and as a positive female role model for the Fourth Industrial Revolution by the World Economic Forum on Africa. She talks about why setting up a business was the best way for her to help people and where she plans to go next. Continue reading...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo goes to the polls on Sunday with 21 candidates running to replace Joseph Kabila, who has been president since 2001. The photographer John Wessels has been watching the campaign transform the streets of the capital, Kinshasa Continue reading...

Ogoniland women produce most of the family’s food but the twin pressures of land grabs and pollution are making it impossible for them to survive Two women pick a slimy path through a creek, prized by generations of their female forbears for its mangroves, which once provided an abundance of food. The elder in orange, the younger in blue, they fail to find a single periwinkle snail, a single fish or a usable piece of kindling between them. Their feet struggle to take purchase on the mud, more slippery than it used to be. Continue reading...

A selection of some of the planet’s most stomach-turning foods, including maggot cheese, fish sperm sac sushi and Chinese mouse wine, are on display in Los Angeles as part of a new exhibition that aims to delight and disgust in equal measure. The Disgusting Food Museum displays dishes from around the world in a bid to challenge stereotypes about which ingredients one would consider to be disgusting Continue reading...

Party works to avoid split after Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field demanded left faction be banned The New South Wales Greens appear to have avoided a split three months out from a state election, with two state MPs backing down from a threat to quit the party. Last week two of the party’s upper house MPs, Cate Faehrmann and Justin Field, sent a letter to members threatening to quit the party unless it held a recount of its preselection ballot and formally banned a section of the party’s hard-left faction . Continue reading...