Activist Tommy Garnett’s decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone’s Tiwai island — a lush forest home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of primates — landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency’s World Heritage list.The 66-year-old and the conservation group he founded are the reason Tiwai, which was nearly destroyed …
South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus said on Saturday No 8 Jasper Wiese would be fully supported after being red carded in the 45-0 win over Italy which sealed a 2-0 Test series victory.Wiese was sent off by Irish referee Andrew Brace after 22 minutes for head-butting prop Danilo Fischetti. “I am unable to say it was …
Red-carded Springbok Wiese to be fully supported – ErasmusSat, 12 Jul 2025 20:21:20 GMT Read More »
Fired-up South Africa overcame a first-half red card for number 8 Jasper Wiese to beat Italy 45-0 in Gqeberha on Saturday and complete a 2-0 Test series victory. Wiese was sent off after 22 minutes for head-butting prop Danilo Fischetti in a penalty-riddled match that also saw one South African and two Italians yellow-carded. At …
Springboks overcome Wiese red card to crush ItalySat, 12 Jul 2025 17:40:37 GMT Read More »
Boeing has reached a settlement with a man whose family died in a 737 MAX crash in 2019, a law firm told AFP on Friday, meaning the US aviation giant will avoid a federal trial slated for Monday. Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife and three children in the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in which 157 people …
Boeing evades MAX crash trial with last-minute settlementSat, 12 Jul 2025 00:12:09 GMT Read More »
Two cultural sites, in Cameroon and Malawi, were added Friday to the UNESCO World Heritage List, said the organisation, which has made boosting Africa’s representation a priority.The Diy-Gid-Biy landscape of the Mandara Mountains, in the far north of Cameroon, consists of archaeological sites, probably created between the 12th and 17th centuries, surrounded by agricultural terraces …
UNESCO adds Cameroon, Malawi sites to heritage listFri, 11 Jul 2025 13:03:37 GMT Read More »
Before the white coffin containing Kenyan hawker Boniface Kariuki was carried into a vehicle for his final journey home, his mother screamed in grief — yet another parent to lose a child in deadly demonstrations roiling the east African nation.On Friday, hundreds of mourners streamed into a field near Kariuki’s home, roughly 100 kilometres (60 …
Greece on Friday enforced a three-month freeze on asylum claims from migrants arriving by boat from North Africa, to stem a surge from Libya that the government has called an “invasion”.The emergency legislation, approved by a majority of 177 out of 293 lawmakers, allows authorities to detain asylum seekers in camps for up to 18 months.Support …
Nomonde Calata’s tears as she testified in court last month about her husband’s assassination 40 years ago echoed the raw anguish heard during South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings after apartheid ended in 1994.From 1996 to 1998, the TRC heard harrowing accounts of murders, torture and other apartheid-era abuses from hundreds of victims and …
Construction on a stalled $20 billion gas project by TotalEnergies in Mozambique is edging closer to restarting, four years after it was suspended due to a bloody jihadist insurgency.The French oil giant has said it hopes to re-ignite the project this summer and chief executive Patrick Pouyanne is expected in the capital Maputo this month, …
TotalEnergies’ Mozambique gas project at a turning pointFri, 11 Jul 2025 05:47:34 GMT Read More »
Mali’s junta chief has granted himself a five-year presidential mandate, renewable “as many times as necessary” and without election, in a law made public Thursday.General Assimi Goita’s approval of the measure had been widely expected for several days, and comes after the country’s military-appointed legislative body passed the bill last week.The law, which was leaked …
Mali junta chief approves law giving him unlimited mandateThu, 10 Jul 2025 17:34:09 GMT Read More »
