Tunisian film star Hend Sabri has resigned as World Food Programme goodwill ambassador in protest at what she called the use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza.Sabri, a leading figure in Arab cinema, said that she had decided with “a heavy heart and deep sadness” to step down after 13 years with …
Film star Hend Sabri quits as WFP ambassador over Gaza warThu, 23 Nov 2023 16:33:56 GMT Read More »
Liberia’s president-elect Joseph Boakai on Wednesday called for unity to rebuild the country as he delivered  his first speech since a narrow victory at the polls.Boakai, a 78-year-old political veteran, defeated incumbent George Weah by a margin of just 20,567 ballots.Boakai captured 50.64 percent of the vote, compared with the 49.36 percent won by the …
Liberian president-elect Boakai urges unityThu, 23 Nov 2023 02:09:06 GMT Read More »
Days after floodwaters swallowed her home in eastern Kenya, Fatuma Hassan Gumo waded through thigh-deep murky water to collect her only remaining possessions — floating utensils. Flash floods from the Tana river in Garissa, a county on the border with Somalia, forced the 42-year-old fruit vendor to flee at night from her submerged home built from …
From drought to deluge: Kenyan villagers reel from floodsWed, 22 Nov 2023 15:47:13 GMT Read More »
Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius said on Wednesday they hope the former South African Paralympic champion who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend a decade ago will be released immediately if granted parole later this week.Pistorius, 37, will appear before a parole board at a correctional centre outside Pretoria where he is currently detained on Friday. Asked whether …
Pistorius lawyer eyes ‘immediate release’ if parole grantedWed, 22 Nov 2023 15:31:38 GMT Read More »
Celebrations of Joseph Boakai’s presidential victory in Liberia were tragically muted after a car ploughed into a crowd of his supporters in the capital Monrovia, killing three people.The suspected driver has been arrested, police said Tuesday, without specifying whether or not they believed the act was deliberate.But it revived fears of violence in the aftermath …
Car rams supporters of Liberia’s Boakai, killing 3Wed, 22 Nov 2023 08:42:36 GMT Read More »
A programme using artificial intelligence to test inmates in a high security Mozambican jail for tuberculosis has spawned hope that the new tech can help eradicate the disease.Teeming prisons are a hotbed of TB, the world’s second deadliest communicable disease after Covid, according to the World Health Organization. Mozambique, a country of 32 million people, recorded …
AI use in Mozambique jails spawns new hope in TB fightWed, 22 Nov 2023 07:53:20 GMT Read More »
Hakim Ziyech scored from a 40-metre drive as shock 2022 World Cup semi-finalists Morocco beat 10-man Tanzania 2-0 on Tuesday when they began their campaign to qualify for the next finals. The Galatasaray winger struck 28 minutes into the 2026 qualifier in Dar es Salaam and Tanzania fell further behind when Lusajo Mwaikenda conceded an own …
A desperate crush to get through a stadium gate for an army recruiting event saw at least 31 people trampled to death in the Republic of Congo capital, officials said Tuesday.A prosecutor said he had opened an investigation into the disaster when several thousand youths descended on the Michel d’Ornano stadium on Monday night hoping …
Stampede kills 31 during Congo army recruitment driveTue, 21 Nov 2023 19:48:35 GMT Read More »
Ethiopia’s government said Tuesday that the latest peace talks with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel group from the country’s most populous region, had ended without agreement.It was the second time Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and the OLA had sat down this year aiming to end a five-year insurgency in the restive Oromia …
Ethiopia says Oromo rebel talks end without agreementTue, 21 Nov 2023 19:13:17 GMT Read More »
The US intelligence chief secured promises from the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to de-escalate after alarm over a surge in violence, the White House said Tuesday.Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines traveled to the two countries Sunday and Monday and said the United States would monitor their efforts.Rwandan President Paul …
