Negotiators toiled Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after G20 leaders acknowledged the need for trillions of dollars for poorer nations but left key sticking points unresolved.With three days left in the COP29 conference, ministers haggling in Azerbaijan had been waiting for the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro to issue a …
Rassie Erasmus has made seven changes to the South Africa side that beat England to face under-pressure Wales in Cardiff on Saturday.Jaden and Jordan Hendrikse –- the 36th set of Springbok brothers -– have been paired at halfback for the season’s final Test against a Wales team that has suffered 11 consecutive Test defeats.Jaden (scrum-half) …
Hendrikse brothers start for South Africa against WalesTue, 19 Nov 2024 14:58:03 GMT Read More »
A new president, a maritime deal with neighbouring Ethiopia, the election of Donald Trump in the United States: after several political shifts in 2024, the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland hopes to see progress in its quest to become Africa’s newest state.The territory, which enjoys a strategic position at the northwestern tip of Somalia, unilaterally declared …
The mausoleum where the scant remains of DR Congo’s fiery independence hero Patrice Lumumba are interred has been vandalised, the culture ministry said Tuesday.A tooth is all that is left of the anti-colonialist icon and first prime minister after the country gained independence from Belgium in 1960. “An act of vandalism took place on Monday November …
The publisher of the novel that won France’s top literary price has strongly defended its French-Algerian author after an Algerian survivor of a 1990s massacre in the North African country claimed the book is based on her story used without her consent.French-Algerian writer Kamel Daoud this month won the Goncourt for his novel “Houris” centred …
Negotiators sought Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after G20 leaders backed the need for “trillions” of dollars for poorer countries but left key sticking points unresolved.Ministers at the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan had been eagerly waiting for the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro to issue a declaration that might jump-start …
The spread of a mosquito in East Africa that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide is fuelling a surge in malaria that could reverse decades of progress against the disease, experts say.Africa accounted for about 95 percent of the 249 million malaria cases and 608,000 deaths worldwide in 2022, according to the …
Urban mosquito sparks malaria surge in East AfricaTue, 19 Nov 2024 03:51:19 GMT Read More »
Tens of thousands of genetically modified mosquitos are being released every week in Djibouti as the tiny Horn of Africa state experiments with a new weapon against an unprecedented malaria surge. East Africa faces a deadly new threat from the arrival of Anopheles stephensi, a mosquito native to Asia and the Middle East that thrives in …
Djibouti experiments with GM mosquito against malariaTue, 19 Nov 2024 03:11:43 GMT Read More »
G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more, at a forum that highlighted differences between world powers but also delivered some successes.Here are five key takeaways from the summit:Â – No climate breakthrough –Â Hopes were high that G20 leaders would jumpstart …
Five takeaways from the G20 summit in RioTue, 19 Nov 2024 02:24:37 GMT Read More »
The cold corridors of South Africa’s once-mighty Komati coal-fired power plant have been quiet since its shutdown in 2022 in what was trumpeted as a pioneering project in the world’s transition to green energy.Two years later, plans to repurpose the country’s oldest coal power plant have amounted to little in a process that offers caution …
