In the 1997 action film “Dante’s Peak”, Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity beneath a long-dormant volcano. Years after its release, the story inspired South African Tebogo Makhubela to become a geologist, the 35-year-old told AFP in an interview. Recipient of one of the prestigious National Geographic 2025 Wayfinder Awards, …
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A Zimbabwean court rejected Tuesday a bid by an opposition party to block government-called hearings into a 1980s massacre of thousands of people by elite troops during former president Robert Mugabe’s long and repressive rule.The court challenge to call off the process was led by a son of the late Joshua Nkomo, Mugabe’s bitter rival …
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The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump’s administration trumpeting the end of the “charity-based model” despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.Founded in 1961 as John F. Kennedy sought to leverage aid to win over the developing world in the Cold War, the US Agency for International …
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The African Development Bank on Tuesday approved a $139 million loan to South Africa’s financial capital to upgrade its utilities, marking its first direct lending to a sub-sovereign entity. Johannesburg is home to Africa’s richest square mile but certain areas have fallen into disrepair, with the city coming under fire from President Cyril Ramaphosa as it …
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More than 100 nations attending a UN aid conference pledged this week to help defuse the ticking time bomb of developing countries’ ballooning debt, but deciding how is proving more divisive.”The debt burden is crippling the developing world,” UN chief Antonio Guterres told the conference in the Spanish city of Seville that reaffirmed support for …
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Jihadists waged attacks on military installations in several western Mali towns Tuesday, in a new series of assaults in the junta-led country amid resurging violence in the wider Sahel region.For more than a decade Mali has faced assaults from groups linked to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group as well as separatist movements and criminal …
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More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.The study in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet was published as world and business leaders met at a United Nations conference …
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An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year prison sentence against dual-national author Boualem Sansal, whose case has strained ties with France.Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars on March 27 on charges related to undermining Algeria’s territorial integrity over comments made to a French media outlet.The appeals court confirmed the sentence …
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As belly dancing gains popularity internationally, young Egyptian performers are working to restore its reputation at home, pushing back against decades of stigma to reclaim the dance as part of their artistic heritage.Once iconic figures of Egypt’s cinematic golden age, belly dancers have watched their prestige wane, their art increasingly confined to nightclubs and wedding …
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An Algerian court is expected to deliver a verdict Tuesday on prosecutors’ bid to double the jail term of a dual-national author whose conviction has strained ties with France.Boualem Sansal, 80, was first sentenced to five years behind bars on March 27 on charges related to undermining Algeria’s territorial integrity over comments made to a …
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