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Spain’s coastguard was on Tuesday looking for three migrant boats reported lost at sea by an NGO a day after rescuing scores of migrants from another vessel near the Canary Islands. A spokeswoman for Salvamento Maritimo told AFP it would deploy a rescue plane during the morning and had also requested help from other ships navigating …

Rescuers continue search for migrants off Canary IslesTue, 11 Jul 2023 10:47:54 GMT Read More »

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on the International Criminal Court to investigate possible “war crimes” in Sudan’s Darfur region where fighting has intensified despite calls for an end to the conflict.The New York-based group charged that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias “summarily executed” at least 28 members of the Massalit …

Alarm over Sudan ‘war crimes’ amid calls to end fightingTue, 11 Jul 2023 10:40:49 GMT Read More »

Double Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya on Tuesday won her appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to challenge whether her rights had been infringed in terms of requiring women with high testosterone to reduce those levels through drugs.South African Semenya, 32, who is classed as having “differences in sexual development (DSD)”, has refused …

South African runner Semenya wins appeal at European rights courtTue, 11 Jul 2023 10:21:13 GMT Read More »

Sudanese public school teacher Imad Mohammed had worked for 32 years when war broke out almost three months ago, tearing his country apart and his finances to shreds.”We only eat one meal a day now,” he told AFP about his family of five.”And we don’t know how long this will go on,” said the teacher …

Sudan civil servants go hungry as war claims livelihoodsTue, 11 Jul 2023 02:15:22 GMT Read More »

Spain’s coastguard said Monday it rescued 86 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa aboard a boat near the Canary Islands that had been spotted earlier in the day by a rescue plane.The Salvamento Maritimo coastguard service said they had found the boat with six females and 80 males on board as rescuers were searching for a missing …

Rescuers save 86 migrants from boat near Canary IslesTue, 11 Jul 2023 00:37:42 GMT Read More »

The trial of Guinea’s former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara over a 2009 massacre resumed Monday after weeks of delays due to strikes by lawyers and prison wardens, an AFP journalist saw.The case had been suspended since May 29 following a boycott by lawyers who said they had been unpaid for more than eight months.It was …

Trial of Guinea ex-dictator Camara resumes after strikeMon, 10 Jul 2023 18:41:02 GMT Read More »

Sudan’s government refused Monday to join a regional meeting aimed at ending nearly three months of brutal fighting, accusing Kenya, which chaired the talks, of favouring the rival paramilitaries.A power struggle between Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), spilled into …

Sudan army refuses to attend peace talks in EthiopiaMon, 10 Jul 2023 18:30:38 GMT Read More »

Ons Jabeur crushed two-time champion Petra Kvitova 6-0, 6-3 to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Monday, immediately setting her sights on revenge against defending champion Elena Rybakina.Tunisia’s Jabeur, last year’s beaten finalist, dominated Kvitova from the start, breaking the ninth seed three times in a 22-minute opening set on Centre Court.Kvitova, who won Wimbledon in …

Jabeur on revenge mission against Rybakina after hammering KvitovaMon, 10 Jul 2023 16:51:17 GMT Read More »

Sudan’s government on Monday refused to participate in a regional meeting to resolve the crisis in the conflict-wracked nation, accusing Kenya, which chaired the talks, of favouring rival forces.Around 3,000 people have been killed since mid-April when fighting erupted between Sudan’s rival generals, while nearly three million have been forced to flee their homes.The east …

Sudan refuses to attend regional peace talks in EthiopiaMon, 10 Jul 2023 14:43:12 GMT Read More »

Two leading jihadists from the Islamic State’s Sahel affiliate have been arrested in a joint operation by Niger and French forces, a senior security source said Monday.The two members of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) were captured in western Niger on separate days last week after being “very actively sought”, the source said.The …

Two IS jihadists arrested in Niger joint operation: security sourceMon, 10 Jul 2023 13:46:57 GMT Read More »