South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius could be granted early release from prison on Friday, a decade after he killed his girlfriend in a crime that gripped the world.  Pistorius, 37, is to appear before a parole board at a correctional centre outside Pretoria where he is currently detained. After a hearing, the board is to …
Niger’s military ruler General Abdourahamane Tiani on Thursday met with his counterparts in Mali and Burkina Faso in his first international visits since seizing power in July.Niger’s neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso — which are ruled by military leaders who seized power in 2020 and 2022, respectively — have pledged solidarity with Niger’s coup leaders.Tiani …
Niger’s military ruler General Abdourahamane Tiani on Thursday arrived in Mali to meet his counterpart Colonel Assimi Goita in his first international visit since seizing power in July, an AFP journalist noted.Niger’s neighbours, Mali and Burkina Faso — which are ruled by military leaders who seized power in 2020 and 2022, respectively — have pledged …
Niger coup leader visits Mali in first foreign tripThu, 23 Nov 2023 18:19:33 GMT Read More »
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 …
