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Full-back Aphelele Fassi and flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit scored two tries each as South Africa trounced Argentina 48-7 in Mbombela on Saturday to win the Rugby Championship.Argentina, who trailed 27-7 at half-time, paid dearly for ill-discipline. Flanker Pablo Matera received a red cards and brothers Mateo and Santiago Carreras were both sin-binned. Wing Cheslin Kolbe, hooker …

Seven-try South Africa crush Argentina to become championsSat, 28 Sep 2024 17:52:18 GMT Read More »

Lock Eben Etzebeth made a record 128th Test appearance for South Africa on Saturday against Argentina in a Rugby Championship title decider at Mbombela Stadium. The 32-year-old forward led his Springbok teammates out before kick-off to sustained, thunderous applause from the capacity 45,000 crowd in the northeastern city. Etzebeth was accompanied by his wife, Anlia, and baby …

Etzebeth becomes most-capped Springbok to thunderous applauseSat, 28 Sep 2024 15:45:31 GMT Read More »

The neat brown rectangle of an airstrip stands out against the vast expanse of floodwater all around — a crucial lifeline in this remote corner of South Sudan. The landing strip in Bentiu has been carefully preserved with huge dykes against the waters that have added another layer of devastation to the world’s youngest country. Alongside is …

Battling to keep floodwaters at bay in South SudanSat, 28 Sep 2024 05:39:06 GMT Read More »

Somalia’s prime minister on Friday accused Ethiopia of actions that “flagrantly violate” Somalia’s territorial integrity after Addis Ababa’s shock announcement it would lease a stretch of coastline from the breakaway region Somaliland.The region has been on alert since January when Ethiopia said it intended to build a naval base and commercial port on the area.Landlocked …

Ethiopian actions ‘flagrantly violate’ Somali territorial integrity: Somali PMSat, 28 Sep 2024 02:34:32 GMT Read More »

Two days of attacks by Sudanese paramilitaries on the Darfur city of El-Fasher killed 48 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country’s suffering.Artillery fire from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 30 people and wounded dozens on Friday alone, a medical source at El-Fasher …

48 dead in two days of Sudan paramilitary attacks on Darfur city: medicFri, 27 Sep 2024 19:50:07 GMT Read More »

Tunisia’s parliament approved a law on Friday that strips a top court of its power to rule on election-related disputes, a move decried by protesters as anti-democratic just days before a presidential ballot.The judicial shift comes after Tunisia’s administrative court in August overturned decisions barring three presidential hopefuls from running in the October 6 election — …

Tunisia lawmakers revise election law days ahead of voteFri, 27 Sep 2024 19:04:38 GMT Read More »

A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country’s wartime suffering.The Rapid Support Forces’ shelling of the market on Thursday evening also injured dozens, activists said separately, as the paramilitaries and regular …

Sudan paramilitary attack kills 18 at El-Fasher market: medicFri, 27 Sep 2024 14:50:53 GMT Read More »

More than 3,600 people have been killed this year in “senseless” gang violence ravaging Haiti, the United Nations said on Friday.One of the world’s poorest countries has been plunged into anarchy, with gangs taking over the capital, Port-au-Prince, and the security and health systems collapsing.About 600,000 people were displaced in the first six months of …

At least 3,661 killed this year in Haiti violence: UNFri, 27 Sep 2024 13:51:34 GMT Read More »

A South African woman celebrated her 118th birthday Friday as one of the oldest people in the world with a small party at her care home.Margaret Maritz was born on September 27, 1906, according to a copy of her identity card shown to journalists by a charity that helped to organise the party in Touws …

S.African woman turns 118, among the oldest in the worldFri, 27 Sep 2024 13:15:24 GMT Read More »

A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country’s wartime suffering.The Rapid Support Forces’ shelling of the market on Thursday evening also injured dozens, activists said separately, as the paramilitaries and regular …

18 dead in Sudan’s El-Fasher after paramilitary attack on market: medicFri, 27 Sep 2024 12:51:38 GMT Read More »