News, views and guides for Africans in Germany and Europe
News, views and guides for Africans in Germany and Europe
Read the latest world news from the perspective of the African diaspora in Europe on AfroNews.eu
EU safe travel list: The EU has decided to remove Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Japan and Serbia from the EU’s “safe travel” list, meaning their nationals will be subject to tighter controls on Covid-19 at the EU’s borders. At the same time, the Union decided to add Uruguay to the list. The list that is, is intended to […] More
Racism: Nearly 5,000 children’s books have been destroyed because they portray racist content, some examples are Tin Tin and Asterix. This is as a gesture of reconciliation with the First Nations, and a gesture of openness towards the other communities present in the school and the society, explained Lyne Cossette, spokesperson for the School Council […] More
COVID vaccines for children: A UK panel advises against COVID vaccines for healthy 12-15 years olds preferring a precautionary approach in healthy children due to uncertainty over the longer term impacts of rare side-effects. The advice given could change the curse for vaccination in other countries like the US, Israel and some European countries which […] More
The new Whatsapp function will allow users to control who is allowed to view sent pictures and videos and even dictate how often they can, in a new update that allows single-view images. WABetaInfo announced in a tweet that the content viewed will then be able to be automatically deleted. READ MORE: Refugees in Germany sue […] More
Coronavirus Germany: A German TV channel published information about the countries in which vacations are allowed that one can travel to within the EU due to the low rate of coronavirus infections and high vaccination turn out. Zeit posted that admission into a country is based on each country’s vaccination reach and rules and regulations. […] More
Lego’s toy company designer has launched an LGBTQ+ set with the title ‘Everyone is Awesome’. The colours of the set were chosen to represent the original rainbow along with a pale blue, white and pink representing the trans community and black and brown to acknowledge the diversity of skin tones and backgrounds in the LGBTQIA+ […] More
British Supermodel Naomi Campbell shared the news with the world that she has welcomed a baby daughter, and at the age of 50 but what most people are wondering is who is the father of the child? The 50-year-old supermodel shared the first photo of her newborn on Instagram and wrote in the caption: “A […] More
The spokesman for the department of Defence has confirmed the realness of the video published last Friday on twitter. The video shows a spherical object is seen flying near the military vehicle off the coast of San Diego before literally diving into the sea. The video depicts a spherical object that moves left and right […] More
EU countries might very soon stop quarantine from the 16th of May. This is inclusive of countries in the Shengen area as well as Great Britain and Israel provided one has a negative COVID-19 test. The Minister of Health Italy, Roberta Speranza, has signed an order providing for entry into these areas to overcome the […] More
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it has expanded the emergency use authorisation for the use of the BioNTech/Pfizer coronavirus vaccination to include children and adolescents aged 12-15. The vaccine by German vaccine maker BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer had previously only been approved in the country for people aged 16 and […] More
EU members states have used illegal operations to pushback at least 40,000 asylum seekers from Europe’s borders during the pandemic. Some methods have been linked to the death of more than 2,000 people reported the Guardian. European countries, supported by EU’S border agency Frontex, has systematically pushed back refugees and asylum seekers. This is inclusive […] More
The EU states want to allow travelling in between borders possible again and hence have launched a common digital corona vaccination certificate dubbed the ‘Green Certificate’. What is the ‘green certificate’? The green certificate is a digital documents that citizens of the EU can use in the future to prove that they have either received […] More