Schools across rural South Africa have perilous and degrading pit latrines — a heritage of the apartheid era that campaigners say symbolises inequality and government ineptitude.Successive governments going back to president Nelson Mandela have promised to eradicate the scourge.The last few years alone have seen President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration promise more than twice to replace …
Africa football boss Patrice Motsepe has intervened to resolve a dispute between the South African women’s 2023 World Cup squad and the national association, a source told AFP on Tuesday.The 61-year-old Confederation of African Football (CAF) president hails from South Africa and is expected to reveal details of his mediation in Johannesburg on Wednesday. Â Â “This …
Relief swept Senegal and its foreign allies on Tuesday after President Macky Sall said he would not seek a contested third term in office, a move that defused fears of further deadly protests.A flood of reaction at home and abroad welcomed the announcement from Sall that after “long consideration” he had decided against running in …
Youths in Tunisia called for vengeance on Tuesday at the funeral of a man stabbed to death during a scuffle between residents and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.Three African migrants were arrested as suspects in the stabbing death of the local man in Tunisia’s coastal city of Sfax, a court spokesman said.The North African country’s second-largest …
Tunisian stabbed to death in clash with African migrantsTue, 04 Jul 2023 19:05:35 GMT Read More »
South Sudan’s leader Salva Kiir on Tuesday pledged that delayed elections set for next year would go ahead as planned and that he would run for president. Kiir, a towering guerrilla commander, has been the nation’s only president since he led it to independence from Sudan in 2011. The world’s youngest nation has lurched from crisis to …
South Sudan’s Kiir pledges country’s first electionTue, 04 Jul 2023 17:29:18 GMT Read More »
Humanity’s failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions — 41 billion tonnes in 2022 — has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage in climate policy and investment.Carbon capture and storage (CCS) and direct air capture (DAC) are both complex industrial processes that isolate CO2 but these …
Carbon ‘capture’ climate tech is booming, and confusingTue, 04 Jul 2023 16:13:03 GMT Read More »
The number of people diagnosed with severe malnutrition in Ethiopia’s war-scarred Tigray region has increased sharply, with conditions set to worsen following a recent halt to food aid, the United Nations said in its latest update.The UN’s World Food Programme and USAID suspended food aid to Africa’s second most populous nation last month, citing the …
Ethiopia’s Tigray sees ‘sharp increase’ in hunger: UNTue, 04 Jul 2023 16:05:50 GMT Read More »
The United Nations on Tuesday warned the world to prepare for the effects of El Nino, saying the weather phenomenon which triggers higher global temperatures is set to persist throughout 2023.El Nino is a naturally occurring climate pattern typically associated with increased heat worldwide, as well as drought in some parts of the world and …
UN warns world to prepare for El Nino impactTue, 04 Jul 2023 13:19:43 GMT Read More »
Duane Vermeulen will stand in for injured Siya Kolisi as captain of Rugby World Cup title-holders South Africa when they face Australia on Saturday in a Rugby Championship first round match.Kolisi suffered a serious knee injury last April and will be available only in August, when the Springboks play three warm-up games before the World …
Veteran Vermeulen to lead South Africa against AustraliaTue, 04 Jul 2023 12:53:06 GMT Read More »
Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who announced Monday that he would not seek a controversial third term in office, has a soft-spoken demeanour that observers say belies stubbornness and hidden fire.He “is genuinely shy but misleadingly gentle”, said Cheikh Yerim Seck, author of a book on life in Senegal under Sall.The 61-year-old president has ended months …
‘Mr. Stony Face’: Senegalese President Macky SallMon, 03 Jul 2023 21:21:57 GMT Read More »
