Hong Kong-born American pop singer Coco Lee, beloved in Asia for her diva riffs and as the voice of Disney’s “Mulan” in Mandarin, died Wednesday, according to an announcement from her family. The 48-year-old had suffered from depression in recent years, “but her condition deteriorated drastically over the last few months”, sisters Carol Lee and Nancy …

Hong Kong-American pop singer Coco Lee dies aged 48Wed, 05 Jul 2023 17:27:39 GMT Read More »

At least eight people, including five women and two children, died on Wednesday in a new attack in DR Congo’s troubled east, local people told AFP on Wednesday.Armed men attacked the village of Bungushu in North Kivu province overnight, killing eight people, a worker with the local Red Cross said.At least four of them were …

At least 8 dead in village attack in eastern DR CongoWed, 05 Jul 2023 16:21:15 GMT Read More »

Racial tensions in the Tunisian coastal city of Sfax flared into violence targeting migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, dozens of whom were forcibly evicted from the city, witnesses said Wednesday.Amid the disturbances late Tuesday, police detained some and deported them as far away as the Libyan border more than 300 kilometres (over 200 miles), according to …

Tunisians target African migrants, dozens expelled: witnessesWed, 05 Jul 2023 11:40:56 GMT Read More »

Your country is one of the poorest in the world, battered by a bloody jihadist insurgency and last year underwent two military coups.So, if you are a citizen of Burkina Faso, what can you do?Well, instead of plunging into despair, you can turn to the safety valve of laughter — making light of some of …

TV satire series is safety valve in troubled BurkinaWed, 05 Jul 2023 05:53:17 GMT Read More »

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 …

Dangerous and degrading: pit toilets blight S.Africa schoolsWed, 05 Jul 2023 05:38:02 GMT Read More »

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.   “This …

CAF boss Motsepe intervenes in South Africa women’s team disputeTue, 04 Jul 2023 21:29:31 GMT Read More »

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 …

Relief in Senegal and beyond after Sall averts election crisisTue, 04 Jul 2023 19:37:09 GMT Read More »

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 »