France has made a key gesture of remembrance for the dozens of African troops shot dead on French army orders in Senegal during World War II, a government official said Sunday, as Paris seeks to ease tensions with former colonies over historical memory.Six of the African soldiers — four from Senegal, one from Ivory Coast and …
Algerian teenager Kaylia Nemour outshone gymnastics superstar Simone Biles on the uneven bars Sunday to qualify for the apparatus and the women’s all-around finals at the Paris Olympics.The 17-year-old French-born athlete earned an impressive 15.600 points for her bars routine — an acrobatic, gravity-defying performance full of technical skill and difficulty at Bercy Arena.China’s Qiu …
Algeria’s Nemour outshines Biles, Qui on uneven barsSun, 28 Jul 2024 15:09:10 GMT Read More »
Only two years ago, Abdesselam Ichou began growing cannabis legally as part of Morocco’s legalisation of the plant for medicinal and industrial uses in an impoverished part of the country.Now, he is among thousands of legal farmers whose area of cultivation has reached new highs and cut into the still-dominant illegal trade in Morocco, the …
In Morocco, cannabis growers come ‘out of the shadows’Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:06:32 GMT Read More »
Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles — an endangered species native to North Africa — have been transferred to an uninhabited Libyan island.Environmentalist hope their new home on Farwa island, near Tunisia, will be a haven for the vulnerable animal.Also known as Gazella leptoceros, or simply …
Endangered gazelles find Libyan ‘safe haven’Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:59:49 GMT Read More »
South Africa said Saturday it would deport as soon as possible 95 Libyans arrested at a camp being investigated for running military-style training in violation of regulations.The men were arrested on Friday in a raid at the remote camp in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga that borders Mozambique and Eswatini.Police said the Libyans entered South …
UNESCO added Saturday the scene of an apartheid-era massacre and a village where Nelson Mandela lived as a boy to its World Heritage List, in an entry honouring South Africa’s struggle that ended white-minority rule 30 years ago.The new listing is made up of 14 locations across South Africa grouped by UNESCO as “Human Rights, …
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Saturday visited a remote and mountainous village hit by the country’s deadliest landslide which killed over 250 people.Officials are still trying to pinpoint how many people were killed when heavy rain on Sunday triggered a landslide that engulfed the tiny locality of Kencho Shacha Gozdi, about 480 kilometres (300 …
Ethiopia PM visits village hit by deadly landslideSat, 27 Jul 2024 10:52:01 GMT Read More »
Weeping families packed homes in a southern remote part of Ethiopia on Friday to bid farewell to relatives killed following a devastating landslide, as authorities announced three days of mourning. Mudslides triggered by heavy rain in the tiny locality of Kencho Shacha Gozdi killed at least 257 people, UN humanitarian agency OCHA, citing local authorities, said …
Ethiopia mourns victims of landslide tragedyFri, 26 Jul 2024 20:02:37 GMT Read More »
South African authorities rounded up 95 Libyans on Friday in a raid at a farm that appeared to have been converted into an illegal military training base, police said.The morning raid was in a remote area outside the town of White River in the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, about 360 kilometres (220 miles) east of …
