More than 400 South African gold miners who remained underground for four days amid tensions between unions and the mine owners returned to the surface on Monday, with some telling AFP that workers had collapsed due to lack of food.The miners failed to emerge at the end of their Thursday night shift at Springs, east …

400 South Africa miners resurface after underground disputeMon, 11 Dec 2023 16:28:07 GMT Read More »

A court on Monday ruled that a man accused of burning down the South African parliament in 2022 is unfit to stand trial due to schizophrenia.Zandile Mafe, 50, was arrested while firefighters were still battling the devastating blaze on January 2 last year.He had pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism, theft and arson at …

Man accused of burning down S. African parliament found unfit to stand trialMon, 11 Dec 2023 14:32:36 GMT Read More »

A French frigate that shot down two drones in the Red Sea was acting in self-defence after coming under attack from the unmanned aerial vehicles, the foreign ministry in Paris said on Monday.The French general staff reported on Sunday that the Languedoc frigate, operating in the Red Sea, had opened fire on two drones heading …

France says downing of drones in Red Sea ‘legitimate defence’Mon, 11 Dec 2023 13:55:35 GMT Read More »

More than 400 South African gold miners who remained underground for four days, amid tensions between unions and the mine owners, returned to the surface on Monday, some telling AFP that workers had collapsed due to lack of food.The miners failed to emerge at the end of their night shift on Thursday at Springs, east …

South Africa miners resurface after underground disputeMon, 11 Dec 2023 13:14:32 GMT Read More »

Prolific Liverpool scorer Mohamed Salah led an Egyptian goal charge across Europe at the weekend with Omar Marmoush and Mostafa Mohamed also finding the net.Salah scored his 200th goal for the Reds and 150th in the Premier League by equalising at Crystal Palace in a match his team went on to win 2-1 in added …

African players in Europe: Salah leads Egyptian goal rushMon, 11 Dec 2023 11:45:48 GMT Read More »

Hundreds of South African gold miners who were blockaded underground for more than four days started returning to the surface on Monday, AFP reporters saw.More than 400 miners were held below ground at Springs, east of Johannesburg, on Thursday evening in a near repeat of a three-day protest in October, the Gold One company said. The …

South Africa miners resurface after underground disputeMon, 11 Dec 2023 10:36:50 GMT Read More »

The United Nations has only been able to reach a fraction of the nearly 25 million people needing aid in war-devastated Sudan, the head of the UN’s humanitarian response in the country says.But assistance to even those four million could soon stop if the chronic lack of funding continues, Clementine Nkweta-Salami told AFP in an …

War-torn Sudan faces ‘catastrophe’ as UN funds run shortMon, 11 Dec 2023 01:28:46 GMT Read More »

West African leaders on Sunday kept sanctions imposed on Niger after a July military coup and demanded progress towards a short transition to civilian rule before easing the measures.The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders met for a summit in Nigeria’s capital Abuja with the region in crisis after coups in Mali, Burkina …

W.Africa leaders set conditions for lifting Niger sanctionsSun, 10 Dec 2023 18:20:31 GMT Read More »

Several thousand Moroccans demonstrated on Sunday in Rabat to condemn “genocide” in the Gaza Strip and demand the end of diplomatic relations with Israel, AFP journalists reported.They marched through the city behind a huge banner denouncing “the Holocaust in Gaza” and calling for ties with Israel to be repealed.Morocco and Israel established full relations in …

Moroccan protesters decry Gaza ‘genocide’Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:47:31 GMT Read More »

Egyptians went to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election overshadowed by war in neighbouring Gaza and with little doubt the incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would secure a third term.  In a country gripped by the most severe financial crisis in its recent history — inflation has hovered near 40 percent after the currency lost …

Egyptians vote in election likely to give Sisi third termSun, 10 Dec 2023 15:37:28 GMT Read More »