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Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a …

World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into MarchTue, 08 Apr 2025 15:05:47 GMT Read More »

Former Ivory Coast foreign minister and veteran diplomat Amara Essy, who was often mistaken for football legend Pele during his stint in Brazil, has died aged 80, state television said Tuesday.Essy was a confidant of Ivory Coast’s founder president Felix Houphouet-Boigny and served as foreign minister during the entire 1990s.He was also general secretary of …

Former I.Coast foreign minister and veteran diplomat Amara Essy deadTue, 08 Apr 2025 14:05:18 GMT Read More »

Somaliland’s opposition leader has won the presidency of the breakaway region of Somalia, according to election results released Tuesday, an outcome that signalled a rejection of the establishment and a call for change.The territory’s decades-long push for international recognition is likely to be a top priority when Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, popularly known as “Irro”, takes …

Breakaway Somaliland’s opposition leader wins presidential pollTue, 08 Apr 2025 11:52:45 GMT Read More »

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe’s climate monitor said on Tuesday, prolonging an extraordinary heat streak that has tested scientific expectations.In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.The world meanwhile …

Global temperatures at near historic highs in March: EU monitorTue, 08 Apr 2025 02:04:53 GMT Read More »

Boeing has reached a last-minute settlement to avoid a civil trial that was due to start Monday over the fatal 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX plane, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said.The Chicago trial was to feature two plaintiffs who lost family members in the calamity, but both cases were settled on Sunday evening, …

Boeing settles to avoid civil trial over Ethiopian Airlines crashMon, 07 Apr 2025 19:03:19 GMT Read More »

Angry residents vented their frustration at DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi on Monday after losing their homes in weekend flash floods in the capital Kinshasa that have killed at least 33 people. Flooding frequently proves deadly in Kinshasa, which sits on the banks of the Congo River, Africa’s second largest after the Nile.Poor maintenance and inadequate …

DR Congo president meets irate Kinshasa flood victimsMon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:09 GMT Read More »

Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday that countries sanctioning Kigali could “go to hell”, weeks after some nations imposed the measures over Rwanda’s involvement in the eastern DR Congo conflict.The Rwandan-backed M23 group has taken swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing and holding the eastern regional capitals Goma and Bukavu, to international condemnation.United …

Kagame tells countries sanctioning Rwanda to ‘go to hell’Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:57:23 GMT Read More »

Britain’s defence minister on Monday met the family of a young Kenyan mother who was found dead in 2012 after last being seen with a British soldier and stressed the need to “accelerate progress” in the case.The high-profile case caused shock in the east African country and Agnes Wanjiru’s family have long urged the UK …

UK defence minister meets kin of murdered Kenyan woman, urges ‘progress’ in caseMon, 07 Apr 2025 13:43:33 GMT Read More »

The International Criminal Court Monday confirmed the award of 52 million euros to victims of a Ugandan warlord who pressed a brutal reign of terror as part of the Lord’s Resistance Army commanded by fugitive Joseph Kony.Dominic Ongwen, whose nom de guerre was “White Ant”, is currently serving a 25-year jail sentence for 61 charges, …

ICC confirms 52 mn euros for victims of Ugandan LRA warlordMon, 07 Apr 2025 13:30:06 GMT Read More »

Britain’s defence minister met on Monday the family of a young Kenyan mother who was found dead in 2012 after last being seen with a British soldier, as he stressed the need to “accelerate progress” in the case.The high-profile case caused shock in the east African country and Agnes Wanjiru’s family have long urged the …

UK defence minister meets family of murdered Kenyan womanMon, 07 Apr 2025 10:04:58 GMT Read More »