French President Emmanuel Macron and his Senegalese counterpart Bassirou Diomaye Faye met for the first time in Paris on Thursday, pledging to firm up ties.Macron and Faye, who was inaugurated on April 2, met on the sidelines of the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation.”Both heads of state expressed their common desire to give new …

France, Senegal leaders pledge to boost tiesThu, 20 Jun 2024 20:37:06 GMT Read More »

England will hope a change of format leads to a change of result when they look to take a giant stride towards the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup against South Africa on Friday following a thumping loss the last time they played the Proteas. That Mumbai encounter, seven months ago, was perhaps the lowest point …

England eager to avoid more South Africa strife at T20 World CupThu, 20 Jun 2024 20:29:20 GMT Read More »

Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world’s biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France and the African country’s ruling junta.Orano said it has been excluded from the Imouraren mine in northern Niger which sits on an estimated …

Niger revokes French operating licence at major uranium mineThu, 20 Jun 2024 20:02:19 GMT Read More »

Armed with smartphones and whistles, thousands of young Kenyans staged protests across the country on Thursday to protest tax hikes, livestreaming the demonstrations in a vivid show of Generation Z anger against the government.Police Nairobi fired tear gas and water cannon against protesters near parliament, but apart from isolated scuffles earlier in the day and …

Thousands of young Kenyans protest tax hikesThu, 20 Jun 2024 19:32:59 GMT Read More »

Italy’s coastguard said Thursday it had recovered 12 more bodies including women and children after a migrant boat sank this week off the southern coast with more than 60 people reported missing.Eleven people survived after the boat sank around 120 nautical miles off the coast of Calabria overnight Sunday-Monday.At least 26 children, some a few …

Italy coastguard recovers 12 more migrant bodies after boat sinksThu, 20 Jun 2024 19:24:34 GMT Read More »

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said Thursday, more than half unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a breakdown showing that of 658 Egyptians who died, 630 …

Hajj death toll tops 1,000 after extreme heat: AFP tallyThu, 20 Jun 2024 17:42:01 GMT Read More »

The death toll from this year’s hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said on Thursday, more than half of them unregistered worshippers who performed the pilgrimage in extreme heat in Saudi Arabia.The new deaths reported Thursday included 58 from Egypt, according to an Arab diplomat who provided a breakdown showing that of 658 Egyptians …

Death toll tops 1,000 after hajj marked by extreme heat: AFP tallyThu, 20 Jun 2024 14:03:12 GMT Read More »

World leaders, health groups and pharmaceutical firms announced $1.2 billion in funding at a summit Thursday to produce vaccines in Africa, which is facing numerous health crises including rising cholera outbreaks.The African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator “will be an essential step towards a genuine African vaccine market,” French President Emmanuel Macron said at the opening of the …

Over $1 billion pledged to create ‘African vaccine market’Thu, 20 Jun 2024 13:53:11 GMT Read More »

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his …

Sudan one of world’s ‘worst crises’ in decades: medical charityThu, 20 Jun 2024 13:40:42 GMT Read More »

Four in every five people want their country to strengthen its commitments to addressing climate change, according to a global poll of 75,000 participants published on Thursday.The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University and GeoPoll posed 15 questions by randomized telephone calls to people in 77 countries representing 87 percent of the world’s …

Four in five people want more climate action: UN surveyThu, 20 Jun 2024 04:09:19 GMT Read More »