Siya Kolisi had difficulty speaking immediately after his Springbok team completed an emphatic 35-7 demolition of New Zealand’s All Blacks in their final warm-up match before the Rugby World Cup.It was not because he was choked up with emotion. He simply could not be heard above the cheers of South African supporters at London’s Twickenham …
A fire that ripped through a five-storey building taken over for illegal housing has killed 74 people including 12 children in central Johannesburg, South African authorities said Thursday.Another 61 people were injured and received hospital treatment in what was one of the deadliest fires worldwide in recent years.Bodies were discovered piled up at a security …
Fire engulfs illegal Johannesburg housing block killing 74Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:47:47 GMT Read More »
At least 48 people have been killed in a crackdown on an anti-UN protest in eastern DR Congo, according to sources and official documentation reviewed by AFP on Thursday, raising a previously reported death toll.On Wednesday, Congolese soldiers stopped a religious sect from holding a demonstration against United Nations peacekeepers in the city of Goma. Some …
48 killed in east DR Congo anti-UN rally crackdownThu, 31 Aug 2023 22:43:53 GMT Read More »
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday floated the idea of a transition back to democracy in neighbouring Niger similar to the nine-month period his country underwent in the late 1990s.The Economic Community of West African States has imposed sanctions on Niger after troops ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in a coup on July 26 and the bloc threatened …
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, head of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS, on Thursday suggested a nine-month transition back to democracy for Niger’s new regime in the bloc’s first apparent timeline since the July coup.The Economic Community of West African States has imposed sanctions on Niger after troops ousted President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and …
W.Africa bloc chief sees 9-month transition for Niger juntaThu, 31 Aug 2023 19:28:55 GMT Read More »
The general who overthrew Gabon’s 55-year Bongo dynasty will be sworn in on Monday as transitional president, the army said, as the opposition called for its candidate to be recognised as the winner of weekend elections.The military sought to reassure donors they would “respect all commitments” at home and abroad and “phase in” transitional institutions, …
Tunisian police arrested four men, including a fisherman, on suspicion of maritime piracy after the robbery of a boat taking Tunisian migrants to Italy, an official said on Thursday.Police intervened and arrested the four Tunisians on Saturday after one of the migrants posted a video online showing men taking the engine of the migrants’ dinghy, …
Tunisia arrests ‘pirates’ after migrants robbed at seaThu, 31 Aug 2023 16:52:04 GMT Read More »
Niger’s new military rulers have stripped France’s ambassador of diplomatic immunity and ordered police to expel him, according to a letter seen Thursday by AFP, a move that ratchets up tensions with the country’s traditional ally.The envoy “no longer enjoys the privileges and immunities attached to his status as member of the diplomatic personnel in …
Niger military regime orders expulsion of French envoyThu, 31 Aug 2023 15:41:46 GMT Read More »
The general who led the overthrow of the 55-year Bongo dynasty will be sworn in on Monday as transitional president of the west African state, the army announced.The military sought to reassure donors they would “respect all commitments” at home and abroad and “phase in” transitional institutions, Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbia, spokesman for the new …
Blankets and sheets still hang from the blackened windows, used by the desperate to reach safety as flames turned the five-storey building in downtown Johannesburg into a death trap.Others just jumped.Witnesses spoke of parents throwing their babies out into the street, trying to save them, after scrabbling around in vain to find an exit.”It was …
Trapped residents fled through windows in S.African infernoThu, 31 Aug 2023 13:00:14 GMT Read More »
