Live-wire scrum-half Cam Roigard had a field day to help New Zealand to an 11-try 71-3 thrashing of Namibia in the two teams’ second Pool A match in Toulouse on Friday.Roigard scored two tries and set up two more as fly-half Damian McKenzie bagged 26 points to kick start the All Blacks’ tournament after an …
Rescuers sifted through mud and rubble Friday in their search for people missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept through the Libyan port city of Derna, killing more than 3,000.The surge of water burst two upstream dams on Sunday, turning Derna into an apocalyptic wasteland with entire city blocks and untold numbers of people …
Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry has notified France of the expulsion of the embassy’s military attache for “subversive activities”, in the latest sign of failing relations between the former allies.In a letter seen by AFP on Friday, the ministry warned that attache Emmanuel Pasquier and his team had two weeks to leave the Sahel nation, which underwent …
President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France’s envoy to Niger is living like a hostage in the French embassy and accused military rulers of blocking food deliveries to the mission.The ambassador is living off “military rations”, Macron told reporters in the French town of Semur-en-Auxois.”As we speak, we have an ambassador and diplomatic staff …
Macron says ambassador to Niger ‘literally held hostage’Fri, 15 Sep 2023 19:02:07 GMT Read More »
Over a decade of bloody power battles in Libya have resulted in vital infrastructure falling into disrepair, culminating in the catastrophic death toll in Sunday’s flood, politicians and analysts have said.Wracked by conflict and division ever since a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, the North African country is currently …
Heinrich Klaasen slammed 174 off 83 balls to lead a South African batting assault against Australia in the fourth one-day international at SuperSport Park on Friday.Klaasen shared an extraordinary fifth wicket partnership of 222 off only 94 balls with David Miller (82 not out) as South Africa piled up 416 for five, their fifth-highest total …
The cost of fuel in Kenya hit a record high on Friday after the energy regulator revised pump prices, adding to the economic hardship facing millions of people.The announcement by the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority has brought the retail price of a litre of petrol to an unprecedented  more than 200 Kenyan shillings ($1.36).Kenyans …
More pain for Kenyans as fuel prices hit all-time highFri, 15 Sep 2023 14:58:02 GMT Read More »
Justine Ndoumba and her two daughters wander round the aisles of a school supplies shop carrying a long list of items required to start the new term in the Gabonese capital Libreville.”The prices have increased and it’s a bit difficult for us,” she admits.Even with the country’s new military strongman declaring an end to enrollment …
Cost of back-to-school weighs on Gabon parentsFri, 15 Sep 2023 11:19:11 GMT Read More »
Thousands of migrants began departing the Italian island of Lampedusa Friday for Sicily, alleviating strain on the hotspot where record recent arrivals equalled the tiny island’s population.Men, women and children lined up to board buses and vans headed to the island’s port to take boats to Sicily further north, where they will be sent to …
Nine-year-old Moroccan girl Ibtissam Ait Iddar was fortunate to have been rescued from under the rubble, but like other children she remains traumatised by the earthquake that devastated her village.”My father called me and I cried back ‘I’m here, I’m here’,” Ibtissam recalled five days after the disaster that left nearly 3,000 people dead and …
Children traumatised by Morocco ‘nightmare’ quakeFri, 15 Sep 2023 09:37:55 GMT Read More »
