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At about 10 o’clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar’s turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms — a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work.Rising ocean temperatures, overfishing and pollution have steadily degraded marine ecosystems around the island, undermining a key source of income for …

Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat upThu, 13 Nov 2025 10:40:10 GMT Read More »

Mobutu Sese Seko ruled the Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades as a dictator who plundered the country’s vast mineral wealth while propped up by the West.But 30 years after his fall, an exhibition at the National Museum in the capital Kinshasa — opened at his family’s initiative — hopes to tell …

Mobutu expo lays bare DR Congo dictator’s troubled legacy 30 years onThu, 13 Nov 2025 10:28:54 GMT Read More »

At least $50 million for the freedom of an Emirati sheikh: that is the king’s ransom paid two weeks ago to jihadists linked to Al-Qaeda who are pushing to topple the Malian government and impose Islamic law.Alongside a crippling fuel blockade, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims, known by its Arabic acronym …

Royal ransoms, a top money-maker for Mali’s jihadist kidnappersThu, 13 Nov 2025 06:40:54 GMT Read More »

A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world’s two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaeda have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say.With strong central leadership, the groups were once able to train and then send commandos into Europe to carry …

Ten years after Paris attacks, jihadist threat has evolvedThu, 13 Nov 2025 02:18:50 GMT Read More »

A US jury in the first civil trial over a fatal Boeing 737 MAX crash determined Wednesday that the aircraft manufacturing giant owes $28.45 million to the family of a newly-wed Indian victim.The case involves the survivors of Shikha Garg of New Delhi, who died in the March 2019 Ethiopian Airlines crash, one of two …

US jury: Boeing owes $28 mn to family of Ethiopian Airlines crash victimWed, 12 Nov 2025 23:25:35 GMT Read More »

Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal arrived in Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned.A spokeswoman for German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old given his “fragile health condition”, confirmed to AFP that Sansal had landed in Germany and …

Pardoned French-Algerian writer Sansal arrives in GermanyWed, 12 Nov 2025 20:44:41 GMT Read More »

Jailed French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal was on his way to Germany for medical treatment on Wednesday after Algiers agreed to a German request that he be pardoned.German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who on Monday had urged Algeria to free the 81-year-old, confirmed he was en route and thanked Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune for the “humanitarian gesture”. Germany …

Jailed writer Sansal on way to Germany after Algeria pardonWed, 12 Nov 2025 18:07:09 GMT Read More »

Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala Wednesday said France’s judiciary was not competent to try him as he went on trial in Paris over atrocities in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo more than two decades ago.Lumbala, 67, is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role during the 1998-2003 Second Congo War, …

DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala’s war crimes trial opens in FranceWed, 12 Nov 2025 17:54:07 GMT Read More »

President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday the United States boycott of the G20 summit in South Africa later this month would not prevent the meeting of the world’s leading economies from going ahead.Pretoria and Washington have clashed over a range of policy issues, including South Africa’s summit agenda, culminating in President Donald Trump announcing at the …

S.Africa’s Ramaphosa says US skipping G20 ‘their loss’Wed, 12 Nov 2025 16:20:42 GMT Read More »

Argentinian President Javier Milei will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa later this month, his spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.Buenos Aires did not specify the reasons for the president’s absence, but Milei, a right-wing leader, has repeatedly expressed his diplomatic alignment with the United States and President Donald Trump.Trump stated last week that he would …

Argentina’s Milei to follow Trump in skipping S.Africa G20: spokespersonWed, 12 Nov 2025 15:40:48 GMT Read More »