World Expo opens on Sunday with host Japan aiming to bring humanity together, despite global turmoil and tepid public enthusiasm for the six-month event showcasing innovation as well as Hello Kitty in algae form.A Mars meteorite the size of a sourdough loaf and a beating heart grown from stem cells are among the myriad futuristic …
Through dense equatorial rainforest the train steamed ahead along Gabon’s sole railway line, a vital yet unreliable cog shuttling minerals, people and timber — as well as the odd coffin — across the country.”We’re forced to take the train. It’s not a choice,” said Aaron Houchi, a radiologist comfortably sat in the plush red velvet …
Gabon’s sole train on tricky track to modernityWed, 09 Apr 2025 09:23:06 GMT Read More »
In Kenya’s largest and poorest county, the despair of a beleaguered hospital director is palpable as he explains that the dismantling of American-funded aid means his facility will run out of USAID drugs next month.”From then on, I don’t know,” Ekiru Kidalio said, worried about the lack of treatment for measles and HIV among other …
Gabon, a small oil-rich but heavily indebted central African country, elects a new president on Saturday after 19 months of interim rule by military leaders who seized power in a coup.Here are five key facts about the country: Â – The Bongos -Strongman Brice Oligui Nguema, 50, has led Gabon since the August 30, 2023 putsch, …
Gabon: Five things to knowWed, 09 Apr 2025 05:43:03 GMT Read More »
After decades of suffering what a government minister called “financial evaporation”, oil-rich Gabon badly needs to revamp crucial infrastructure and diversify its economy but is heavily indebted.The small central African country holds presidential elections on Saturday, after 19 months under military leadership following a coup that ended more than five decades of Bongo dynasty rule. While …
Gabon votes on Saturday to pick a president with junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema the hot favourite to become the oil-rich country’s first elected leader since his August 2023 coup.Nineteen months after he ended more than five decades of Bongo dynastic rule widely viewed as corrupt, the 50-year-old career soldier has predicted a “historic victory” for himself …
Gabon elects new president with junta chief frontrunnerWed, 09 Apr 2025 05:39:44 GMT Read More »
Title-holders Al Ahly won, fellow Egyptian club Pyramids lost and Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa drew in away games as they all booked CAF Champions League semi-finals slots on Tuesday. Emam Ashour scored on 80 minutes as record 12-time African champions Ahly beat homeless Sudanese side Al Hilal 1-0 in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott for a …
The United States supports effort to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo but will not get involved in discussions, a US special envoy insisted Tuesday. Massad Boulos spoke in Kigali as DR Congo authorities announced that three Americans sentenced to death over a  foiled coup had their punishments commuted to life jail terms and …
Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a …
World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into MarchTue, 08 Apr 2025 15:05:47 GMT Read More »
Former Ivory Coast foreign minister and veteran diplomat Amara Essy, who was often mistaken for football legend Pele during his stint in Brazil, has died aged 80, state television said Tuesday.Essy was a confidant of Ivory Coast’s founder president Felix Houphouet-Boigny and served as foreign minister during the entire 1990s.He was also general secretary of …
