Invasive species that destroy forests, ravage crops and cause extinctions are a major and growing threat worldwide, a landmark UN-backed assessment is poised to report.From water hyacinth choking Lake Victoria in East Africa, to rats and brown snakes wiping out bird species in the Pacific, to mosquitoes exposing new regions to Zika, yellow fever, dengue …
Peace seems out of reach and aid is in short supply. In camps for displaced people in DR Congo’s war-torn eastern province of Ituri, despair is growing on the back of violent horrors experienced amid a feeling of abandonment.”I had six children, three were hacked to death by machete by ADF” rebels, said Henriette Lofaku, …
Algeria said Sunday its security forces had opened fire this week after a group of jet skiers from Morocco ignored warning shots and refused to comply with orders to stop.Lawyers for two men shot dead in the incident plan to file a complaint in France. One was French-Moroccan and the other held a residence permit …
Algiers: jet skiers ‘refusal to comply’ led to shootingMon, 04 Sep 2023 00:07:49 GMT Read More »
Ivory Coast’s ruling party appeared set for a landslide victory according to partial results Sunday from local elections expected to gauge support two years from presidential elections, electoral commission data showed.The ruling RHDP won in two-thirds of the 112 communes where results have so far been tallied, according to the partial results.A total of 201 …
I.Coast ruling party looks set for big win in local pollsSun, 03 Sep 2023 21:49:13 GMT Read More »
Thousands of demonstrators in Niger on Sunday held a third day of rallies calling for former colonial ruler France to withdraw its troops, as sought by the junta which seized power in July.”Down with France! France get out,” the demonstrators chanted, repeating slogans heard at various rallies in Niamey since the coup d’etat on July …
The needs of South Africans are better met today than they were at the end of the apartheid era, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at the ruling ANC’s first campaign rally on Sunday.Ramaphosa admitted mistakes along the way but urged voters not just to look at the ANC’s record of recent years. The party has …
Five civilians were killed by bombs that “fell on their homes” in Khartoum, a Sudanese medical source told AFP, a day after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians.Residents of the war-torn capital reported the city was again pummelled by artillery and rocket fire Sunday, in the fifth month of …
Residents of Khartoum awoke Sunday to artillery and rocket fire, hours after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians including two children, according to Sudanese activists.”The death toll from the aerial bombardment” in southern Khartoum “has risen to 20 civilian fatalities,” according to a statement by the  neighbourhood’s resistance committee. …
Air strike in Khartoum kills 20 civilians: activistsSun, 03 Sep 2023 10:33:21 GMT Read More »
Jacques Nienaber is far removed from the stereotype of an international rugby head coach.The Springbok coach was not a leading player –- although he was a first XV centre at Grey College in Bloemfontein, one of South Africa’s leading rugby schools.Nor did Nienaber, 50, plan to be a coach. Instead, he qualified as a physiotherapist …
Thousands rallied Saturday in Niger’s capital Niamey to demand that former colonial ruler France withdraw its troops as sought by a junta which seized power in July.The protesters gathered near a base housing French soldiers following a call by several civic organisations hostile to the French military presence in the West African country.They held up …
