Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing at least 4,000 people.The enormous surge of water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and …
About eight hours passed after Morocco’s earthquake before help reached the hamlet of Ardouz, one of many tiny mountain villages whose remoteness is both appealing and cruelly risky.Some of the settlements perched in the High Atlas are still not accessible by road nearly a week after the nation’s deadliest quake in generations, though the authorities …
Quake exposed risk in Morocco villages’ isolationFri, 15 Sep 2023 05:20:50 GMT Read More »
Thousands fleeing war in Sudan have taken refuge in the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile, where families are helping keep the tourism industry afloat far from the horrors they left behind.”We finally made it to Aswan,” said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took his family south of the …
Sudan refugees bring off-season tourism to Egypt’s AswanFri, 15 Sep 2023 02:22:58 GMT Read More »
The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers Friday in Cuba seeking to promote a “new economic world order” amid warnings of growing polarization.United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, who arrived on the island Thursday, will join some 30 heads of state and government from Africa, Asia and …
G77+China summit in Cuba seeks ‘new economic world order’Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:25:11 GMT Read More »
A global aid effort for Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-sized flash flood killed at least 4,000 people, with thousands more missing — a death toll the UN blamed in part on the legacy of years of war and chaos.The enormous surge of storm water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced the …
Global aid effort intensifies for flood-stricken LibyaThu, 14 Sep 2023 19:26:32 GMT Read More »
Mohammed Al Moutawak’s village was destroyed by Morocco’s powerful earthquake and his apple harvest ruined, but he refuses to leave the land that is vital to small farmers like him. Drought and extreme weather have long taken a toll on the North African kingdom’s growers, but the quake spells new challenges that are just beginning to …
The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled Thursday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at 7,000 people — equivalent to the entire local population.The local reception centre, built to house fewer than 400 people, was overwhelmed with men, women and children forced to sleep outside on makeshift …
The Africa Union’s entry into the G20 group of the world’s most powerful economies highlights the continent’s growing influence and gives its leaders a stronger voice in global decision-making.African leaders applauded the move for better representing the Global South and recognising Africa in multilateral debate on problems such as climate change where it has often …
Africa Union tests diplomatic muscle with G20 entryThu, 14 Sep 2023 12:47:08 GMT Read More »
There’s a new air of optimism among the seniors waiting patiently since dawn in Gabon’s capital Libreville to chase up pensions that were never  paid.Some say they’ve received nothing for years.The general who ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a coup on August 30 and is now transitional leader of the oil-rich, central African state …
Hopes for change in Gabon after years of unpaid pensionsThu, 14 Sep 2023 12:22:20 GMT Read More »
Rescue teams stepped up on Wednesday a massive effort in devastated Moroccan mountain villages as chances faded for finding survivors from last week’s earthquake which killed nearly 3,000 people and left many homeless.Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain roads to deliver desperately needed food and tents to survivors of the nation’s strongest …
Last-ditch hunt for Morocco quake survivorsWed, 13 Sep 2023 19:19:13 GMT Read More »
