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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 »

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, 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 protect …

France launches manslaughter probe against TotalEnergies over Mozambique attackSat, 15 Mar 2025 11:20:30 GMT Read More »

The US decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable,” the office of the South African president said Saturday, after Washington’s top diplomat accused the envoy of hating America and President Donald Trump.Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, was “no longer welcome” in the United States.Rasool is “a …

US expels South African ambassador, saying he ‘hates’ TrumpSat, 15 Mar 2025 06:59:30 GMT Read More »

Despite the risks from deadly armed groups roaming the countryside, Judith Kahindo walks alone every day to her isolated cocoa plantation in the war-torn North Kivu region of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. North Kivu is primarily rich in coltan and other minerals that have fuelled the fighting that has ravaged the region for the …

Armed groups covet cocoa in eastern DR CongoSat, 15 Mar 2025 06:30:15 GMT Read More »

Advancing anti-government fighters in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo forced the temporary closure of the world’s third most productive tin mine, its operator said in a statement received by AFP Friday.Alphamin Resources said it has made “the difficult decision to temporarily cease mining operations at the Company’s Bisie tin mine in Walikale District, North Kivu …

DR Congo conflict forces halt at world’s 3rd biggest tin mineFri, 14 Mar 2025 14:07:49 GMT Read More »

Residents sought to flee mounting tensions in the Tigray region of Ethiopia on Friday as a political faction confirmed to AFP they had seized control of the town hall in state capital Mekele.Ethiopia’s most northerly state, which borders Eritrea, saw a devastating conflict between Tigrayan rebels and the federal government in 2020-22 which claimed up …

Terrified Tigrayans seek to flee renewed tensions in north EthiopiaFri, 14 Mar 2025 11:54:37 GMT Read More »