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The European Union sanctioned three Rwandan military commanders and its mining agency chief Monday over support for armed fighters in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a day before planned peace talks. Rwanda at the same time announced that it had severed diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying the former colonial power had “consistently undermined” it.The Rwanda-backed …

EU sanctions Rwandan commanders over M23 in DR CongoMon, 17 Mar 2025 17:08:28 GMT Read More »

In a war-ravaged neighbourhood of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, the stench from a gaping sewage pit is unbearable as Red Crescent workers pull a bloated body from deep underground.The volunteers say 14 more remain below.”They were shot in the head, some have crushed skulls,” Hisham Zein al-Abdeen, head of forensic medicine at Sudan’s health ministry, told …

Stench of death as Sudan army, paramilitaries battle for capitalMon, 17 Mar 2025 14:24:31 GMT Read More »

Countries must move rapidly to slash CO2 emissions from homes, offices, shops and other buildings — a sector that accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas pollution, the United Nations said Monday. Carbon dioxide emissions from the building sector rose around five percent in the last decade when they should have fallen 28 percent, according …

‘More and faster’: UN calls to shrink buildings’ carbon footprintMon, 17 Mar 2025 14:02:00 GMT Read More »

In a corner of his mother’s backyard, 30-year-old Thabang Moshoke runs a clipper through a client’s hair at a makeshift barbershop that has only a rough roof to shield it from the skies.A queue of men and boys wait their turn for a 60-rand ($3.50) trim from this self-taught barber, who defied South Africa’s massive …

From determination to despair: S.Africa’s youth battling for workMon, 17 Mar 2025 10:14:21 GMT Read More »

Underperforming Nigeria and disadvantaged Sudan share the spotlight ahead of two 2026 World Cup qualifying matchdays in Africa from Wednesday. Seeded to win Group C and automatically qualify, a Nigerian team boasting the past two African Footballers of the Year Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman lie fifth in a six-team section.In a qualifying competition spanning three …

Nigeria seek World Cup redemption, Sudan eye historyMon, 17 Mar 2025 07:11:33 GMT Read More »

Like something from the science fiction film “Dune”, the “world’s biggest mining dredger” has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal’s vegetables are grown.The jagged 23-kilometre-long (14-mile) scar the gigantic rig has left mining for zircon — which is used in ceramics and the building industry — is so …

Giant mine machine swallowing up Senegal’s fertile coastMon, 17 Mar 2025 02:19:19 GMT Read More »

With a few taps on his phone, Dandam Nangor knows exactly what temperature his greenhouse is at, when to water his crops and even the pH of the soil.Backed by artificial intelligence, it’s all designed to make growing his peppers easier — and perhaps usher in a sort of agriculture 2.0 in Nigeria, where millions …

In Nigeria, tech workers and farmers bring AI to the fieldsSun, 16 Mar 2025 06:35:09 GMT Read More »

Beneath the broken earth of the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher in the western region of Darfur, Nafisa Malik clutches her five children close.As shells rain down, the 45-year-old mother tries to shield them in a cramped hole barely big enough to crouch in.”Time slows down here,” Malik said, from her home near El-Fasher’s Hajer …

Sudanese seek refuge underground in besieged Darfur citySun, 16 Mar 2025 01:46:51 GMT Read More »

French prosecutors said Saturday they had opened a manslaughter investigation against energy giant TotalEnergies following a bloody 2021 jihadist attack in Mozambique.In October 2023, several survivors and relatives of victims of the attack near a major gas field in northern Mozambique launched legal action against the oil and gas giant, accusing it of failing to …

France launches manslaughter probe against TotalEnergies over Mozambique attackSat, 15 Mar 2025 16:39:53 GMT Read More »

Two Brazilians have been sentenced to 19 and 23 years in prison respectively for the beating death of a young Congolese migrant in Rio de Janeiro, the court announced Saturday.Aleson Cristiano de Oliveira Fonseca was sentenced to 23 years and seven months, and Fabio Pirineus da Silva to 19 years and six months for the …

Brazilians sentenced in beating death of Congolese migrantSat, 15 Mar 2025 15:29:35 GMT Read More »