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Caster Semenya’s costly legal marathon enters its last lap as the highest chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday begins a hearing into whether the double Olympic champion can be required to lower her testosterone levels to compete. The 33-year-old runner won an earlier round at the ECHR, which last July ruled she …

European rights court to make final decision on SemenyaTue, 14 May 2024 04:43:51 GMT Read More »

The death toll from the collapse of a building in South Africa has risen to 30, with another 22 people still missing, authorities said Monday, a week after the structure came crashing down.Rescuers pulled ten more bodies from the rubble at the site in the southern city of George, city officials said.Rescue teams have worked …

22 people still missing as S.Africa building collapse death toll risesMon, 13 May 2024 16:47:59 GMT Read More »

Senegal striker Nicolas Jackson scored his fourth goal in three matches to give Chelsea a 3-2 victory over Nottingham Forest at the weekend. The 22-year-old has endured a difficult first season with the Blues since moving from Villarreal, but recently showed signs of adapting to the Premier League.Chelsea lie seventh with two matches to play, behind …

African players in Europe: In-form Jackson heads Chelsea winnerMon, 13 May 2024 13:42:06 GMT Read More »

More than 90 percent of schools in Kenya reopened on Monday after flooding killed over 270 people and delayed the resumption of classes by two weeks, the government said. The East African nation has been battered by heavy rainfall since March, causing a trail of destruction and swamping entire villages. “Some students whose schools were badly affected are going …

Kenyan flood-weary schools reopen but more rains forecastMon, 13 May 2024 12:16:38 GMT Read More »

Fifty countries are meeting in France on Tuesday to discuss the lack of access to clean cooking methods worldwide which causes millions of deaths every year and fuels global warming.Some 2.3 billion people across 128 countries breathe in harmful smoke when they cook on basic stoves or over open fires, according to an International Energy …

Bid to end deadly cooking methods which stoke global warmingMon, 13 May 2024 11:11:31 GMT Read More »

The death toll from the collapse of a building in South Africa has risen to 26, with another 26 people still missing, authorities said Monday, a week after the structure came crashing down.Six bodies were recovered during the night and the morning at the site in the southern city of George, city officials said.Rescue teams …

S.Africa building collapse death toll climbs to 26Mon, 13 May 2024 11:08:25 GMT Read More »

Succes Masra, who came second in Chad’s presidential election, announced Sunday he had lodged a request with the Constitutional Council to have the vote annulled.Masra was acting after dozens of activists from his party were arrested and accused of having forged documents to get illegal access to vote counts.”With the help of our lawyers, we …

Runner-up files bid to annul Chad presidential poll resultSun, 12 May 2024 21:51:21 GMT Read More »

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wrapped up their three-day visit to Nigeria on Sunday, arriving in the country’s economic capital Lagos during a trip to promote his Invictus Games for wounded military veterans.The Duke of Sussex arrived with his wife on Friday in Nigeria’s capital Abuja where they visited a school event on mental …

Prince Harry, Meghan end Nigeria tour with Lagos visitSun, 12 May 2024 19:33:31 GMT Read More »

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan wrapped up their three-day visit to Nigeria on Sunday, arriving in the country’s economic capital Lagos during a trip to promote his Invictus Games for wounded military veterans.The Duke of Sussex arrived with his wife on Friday in Nigeria’s capital Abuja where they visited a school event on mental …

Prince Harry, Meghan end Nigeria tour with Lagos visitSun, 12 May 2024 17:41:04 GMT Read More »

Tunisian authorities ordered Sunday the arrest of two political commentators over critical comments, a lawyer told AFP, a day after security forces stormed the bar association and took a third pundit into custody.Sonia Dahmani, also a lawyer, was arrested late Saturday after criticising the state of Tunisia on television, her attorney Dalila Msaddek said in …

Three Tunisian pundits arrested over critical remarks: lawyersSun, 12 May 2024 14:42:03 GMT Read More »