South Africa head coach Rassie Erasmus said on Thursday iconic captain Siya Kolisi’s 100th Test will not “distract” the team before they face France in the Autumn Nations Series this weekend.Kolisi made his Springbok debut in 2013 before leading the side to back-to-back Webb Ellis trophies in 2019 and 2023. The 34-year-old Sharks flanker will skipper the side for …
Paul Biya, who has been president of Cameroon for 43 years, was sworn in on Thursday for an eighth term, after a contested election that sparked mass protests and subsequent repression in which several demonstrators died.The 92-year-old Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, won the October 12 with 53.7 percent of the vote, according …
France head coach Fabien Galthie said on Thursday South Africa are “perhaps the best team ever” as he named La Rochelle scrum-half Nolann Garrec as Antoine Dupont’s stand-in for this weekend’s Autumn Nations Series game in Paris.Le Garrec will make his 14th Test appearance against the four-time Rugby World Cup winners on Saturday with superstar …
Abdulhamid Mohammed fled his home in northeast Nigeria in 2015, chased into neighbouring Chad by jihadists who torched homes and shot civilians in his lakeside village.A decade later, little has changed in the fishing community of Doron Baga — though that didn’t stop the government from trying to send him back there earlier this year.As …
Home in Nigeria, ex-refugees find themselves in a war zoneThu, 06 Nov 2025 07:07:48 GMT Read More »
Boeing reached a last-minute settlement in one of two lawsuits in this week’s trial in Chicago over a 2019 737 MAX crash that killed 157 people, attorneys announced Wednesday.The agreement leaves a single plaintiff remaining in the first civil trial over the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, which began in earnest Wednesday after jury selection …
Boeing settles with one plaintiff in 737 MAX crash trialThu, 06 Nov 2025 00:37:40 GMT Read More »
An attack on a funeral in the strategic city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive there.The United Nations’ humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it, but said that the situation in …
Attack on funeral in Sudan’s Kordofan region kills 40: UNWed, 05 Nov 2025 17:38:17 GMT Read More »
An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive.The United Nations’ humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it, but said that the situation in the …
Attack on key city in Sudan’s Kordofan region kills 40: UNWed, 05 Nov 2025 09:24:41 GMT Read More »
Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.Following an 18-month siege marked by starvation and bombardment, El-Fasher — the last army stronghold in the western Darfur region — fell on October 26 to the …
Opening arguments will begin in Chicago on Wednesday in the first civil trial against US aviation giant Boeing over the 2019 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX aircraft, which killed 157 people, after a full day of jury selection. Five women and three men will serve on the jury in the proceedings, which got …
Jury selected in US trial against Boeing over 737 MAX crashWed, 05 Nov 2025 02:00:24 GMT Read More »
Thousands of visitors streamed through the Grand Egyptian Museum on Tuesday as almost the entire collection of King Tutankhamun’s treasures — over 4,500 artefacts — was displayed together for the first time since the young pharaoh’s tomb was discovered in 1922.Curated and conserved over nearly two decades, the collection was unveiled to the public two …
