In the shadow of the Grand Egyptian Museum, souvenir shop owner Mona has been readying for the tourist boom she hoped the long-awaited opening would bring — now once again out of reach.”I had bet everything on this opening,” she told AFP from her shop, just steps from the iconic pyramids of Giza, which the …
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France and Equatorial Guinea will cross swords Tuesday at the top United Nations court, in a long-running dispute over a luxury Paris mansion confiscated by French authorities.The central African nation has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue emergency orders preventing France from selling the building, seized after Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang …
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Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari — who led his country first as a junta strongman and later as an elected democrat — died Sunday at the age of 82, the presidency announced.Current President Bola Tinubu said in a statement that his predecessor died in London at about 4:30 pm (1530 GMT) “following a prolonged illness”. Buhari …
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday suspended his police minister over corruption allegations “with immediate effect”, a week after accusations made by a provincial police chief.In a country facing endemic corruption, Sunday’s presidential speech was highly anticipated after a week of speculation over the fate of Senzo Mchunu, who became police minister a year …
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Activist Tommy Garnett’s decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone’s Tiwai island — a lush forest home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of primates — landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency’s World Heritage list.The 66-year-old and the conservation group he founded are the reason Tiwai, which was nearly destroyed …
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South Africa coach Rassie Erasmus said on Saturday No 8 Jasper Wiese would be fully supported after being red carded in the 45-0 win over Italy which sealed a 2-0 Test series victory.Wiese was sent off by Irish referee Andrew Brace after 22 minutes for head-butting prop Danilo Fischetti. “I am unable to say it was …
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Fired-up South Africa overcame a first-half red card for number 8 Jasper Wiese to beat Italy 45-0 in Gqeberha on Saturday and complete a 2-0 Test series victory. Wiese was sent off after 22 minutes for head-butting prop Danilo Fischetti in a penalty-riddled match that also saw one South African and two Italians yellow-carded. At …
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Boeing has reached a settlement with a man whose family died in a 737 MAX crash in 2019, a law firm told AFP on Friday, meaning the US aviation giant will avoid a federal trial slated for Monday. Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife and three children in the Ethiopian Airlines disaster in which 157 people …
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Two cultural sites, in Cameroon and Malawi, were added Friday to the UNESCO World Heritage List, said the organisation, which has made boosting Africa’s representation a priority.The Diy-Gid-Biy landscape of the Mandara Mountains, in the far north of Cameroon, consists of archaeological sites, probably created between the 12th and 17th centuries, surrounded by agricultural terraces …
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Before the white coffin containing Kenyan hawker Boniface Kariuki was carried into a vehicle for his final journey home, his mother screamed in grief — yet another parent to lose a child in deadly demonstrations roiling the east African nation.On Friday, hundreds of mourners streamed into a field near Kariuki’s home, roughly 100 kilometres (60 …
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