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Nine-year-old Moroccan girl Ibtissam Ait Iddar was fortunate to have been rescued from under the rubble, but like other children she remains traumatised by the earthquake that devastated her village.”My father called me and I cried back ‘I’m here, I’m here’,” Ibtissam recalled five days after the disaster that left nearly 3,000 people dead and …

Children traumatised by Morocco ‘nightmare’ quakeFri, 15 Sep 2023 09:37:55 GMT Read More »

Police officers arrive en masse, force their way into a house and unceremoniously throw furniture and household appliances out on the street, as the helpless residents look on.The scene is a common one in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s bustling capital Kinshasa, where property disputes are endemic. Unbridled corruption and soaring land prices often fuel the …

Property disputes, evictions plague DR Congo capitalFri, 15 Sep 2023 06:25:51 GMT Read More »

Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing at least 4,000 people.The enormous surge of water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks and …

Libya’s flood-ravaged Derna in grisly hunt for thousands still missingFri, 15 Sep 2023 05:48:23 GMT Read More »

About eight hours passed after Morocco’s earthquake before help reached the hamlet of Ardouz, one of many tiny mountain villages whose remoteness is both appealing and cruelly risky.Some of the settlements perched in the High Atlas are still not accessible by road nearly a week after the nation’s deadliest quake in generations, though the authorities …

Quake exposed risk in Morocco villages’ isolationFri, 15 Sep 2023 05:20:50 GMT Read More »

Thousands fleeing war in Sudan have taken refuge in the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile, where families are helping keep the tourism industry afloat far from the horrors they left behind.”We finally made it to Aswan,” said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took his family south of the …

Sudan refugees bring off-season tourism to Egypt’s AswanFri, 15 Sep 2023 02:22:58 GMT Read More »

The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers Friday in Cuba seeking to promote a “new economic world order” amid warnings of growing polarization.United Nations chief Antonio Guterres, who arrived on the island Thursday, will join some 30 heads of state and government from Africa, Asia and …

G77+China summit in Cuba seeks ‘new economic world order’Fri, 15 Sep 2023 01:25:11 GMT Read More »

A global aid effort for Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-sized flash flood killed at least 4,000 people, with thousands more missing — a death toll the UN blamed in part on the legacy of years of war and chaos.The enormous surge of storm water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced the …

Global aid effort intensifies for flood-stricken LibyaThu, 14 Sep 2023 19:26:32 GMT Read More »

Mohammed Al Moutawak’s village was destroyed by Morocco’s powerful earthquake and his apple harvest ruined, but he refuses to leave the land that is vital to small farmers like him. Drought and extreme weather have long taken a toll on the North African kingdom’s growers, but the quake spells new challenges that are just beginning to …

‘Worst enemy’: Morocco quake brings new hardships for farmersThu, 14 Sep 2023 13:25:51 GMT Read More »

The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled Thursday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at 7,000 people — equivalent to the entire local population.The local reception centre, built to house fewer than 400 people, was overwhelmed with men, women and children forced to sleep outside on makeshift …

Italian island struggles as migrant surge doubles populationThu, 14 Sep 2023 13:09:36 GMT Read More »

The Africa Union’s entry into the G20 group of the world’s most powerful economies highlights the continent’s growing influence and gives its leaders a stronger voice in global decision-making.African leaders applauded the move for better representing the Global South and recognising Africa in multilateral debate on problems such as climate change where it has often …

Africa Union tests diplomatic muscle with G20 entryThu, 14 Sep 2023 12:47:08 GMT Read More »