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The Black International Cinema Berlin 2025 celebrates its 40th edition – a remarkable milestone for a festival internationally recognized for its longstanding commitment to intercultural dialogue, social awareness, and artistic diversity.

Three weeks in, and the verdict is clear: the African Diaspora Studies Short Course at the Broos Institute is more than an academic experience; it’s an awakening. Led by Ghanaian scholar and decolonial thinker Dr. Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, the course is sparking critical conversations, reshaping understandings of identity and history, and disrupting long-held Eurocentric frameworks.

Internationally renowned artist Ekow Nimako will open a new temporary exhibition at Wereldmuseum Amsterdam on October 31, featuring a monumental Afrofuturist artwork constructed from one million black LEGO® bricks: Building Black Civilizations – The Nile 3025 CE. This new and largest architectural piece to date also marks Nimako’s Dutch premiere.

A new museum is emerging in Puerto Rico, what we now know as Casa Silvana, a self-managed cultural model, which reopens as the Museo Afro Casa Silvana (MACAS) in response to the lack of an Afro museum on the island. It thus becomes the only museum in Puerto Rico dedicated exclusively to the collection, exhibition, and study of Afro-descendant art.

The Broos Institute this month launches the short course Africa and diaspora studies. “A unique opportunity for students, professionals, and anyone interested to learn directly from an African professor about topics that in the Netherlands are often approached from a Western perspective,” the institute said in a statement.

NEW YORK, United States of America — On the International Day for People of African Descent, celebrated each year on 31 August, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for justice, dignity and equality for people of African descent around the world.

After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.

The Fourth AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025) has concluded with over US $300 million in investment and trade deals signed and a robust  communiqué affirming both regions’ commitment to deeper collaboration. The two-day event, co-hosted by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) and the Government of Grenada, brought together more than 2,100 delegates, from 80 countries, including 11 Heads of State and Government, representatives of governments, private sector leaders, and development partners.

Every week, hundreds of victims and survivors of sexual violence seek care at health centres supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In 2024 alone, nearly 40,000 women were treated by MSF teams in North Kivu province — a record high. In January 2025, M23/Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) forces – backed by Rwanda – took control of Goma, the provincial capital and home to over a million people, after years of fighting against the Congolese army and allied armed groups. Since then, the prevalence of sexual violence has shown no signs of decreasing.