The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has taken control of the mining hub of Walikale in DR Congo, local sources said Thursday, despite attempts to broker a ceasefire this week. The seizure of the town of around 60,000 people late on Wednesday marks the farthest west the anti-government group has advanced into the interior of the Democratic …
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Kirsty Coventry says she has “learned the best lessons by failing” and the Zimbabwean swimming great’s mantra appears to have served her well after she became the first woman and African to be elected president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).”Everything’s scary. Embrace that. You have to fail,” Coventry told the swimming team at her …
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The once-pristine white oil tanks of Sudan’s largest refinery have been blackened by nearly two years of devastating war, leaving the country heavily dependent on fuel imports it can ill afford.The Chinese-built Al-Jaili refinery, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Khartoum, was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), just days after fighting …
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A court on Thursday set for November the trial of a daughter of South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, accused of inciting 2021 riots that left more than 350 people dead.Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, 42, is among several people charged with inciting terrorism and public violence via posts on social media after Zuma was sent to prison …
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Few details on a possible ceasefire in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo had come to light on Wednesday, the day after Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame held surprise talks in Doha.Fighting in the mineral-rich east of the DRC has recently intensified with the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group launching a …
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Months of political infighting in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State have culminated in the federal government declaring a state of emergency, putting residents on edge and throwing the country into constitutional uncertainty.The region is prone to street gang violence and theft from crude pipelines, but it’s also a key economic lifeline for the west African fossil …
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Three cyclones have battered Mozambique in three months, pounding one of the world’s most impoverished regions, pushing thousands of people into distress and leaving experts wondering whether more frequent storms will become the norm.The unusually clustered series of cyclones has also piled pressure on aid groups assisting people in the area, where the repeated disasters …
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Six people died and 40 are missing after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the United Nations said Wednesday, as Italian authorities searched for survivors off the island of Lampedusa.”Still too many dead in a new shipwreck in the Mediterranean,” Chiara Cardoletti, the Italy representative of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, said on X.An inflatable …
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Algerian Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif, at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Games, is targeting a second gold in Los Angeles and says she will not be intimidated by Donald Trump.The US president last month signed an executive order barring transgender women from competing in the female categories of sports.Trump had …
Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee climate disasters last year, the United Nations said Wednesday, highlighting the urgent need for early warning systems covering the entire planet.Poorer countries are severely affected by cyclones, droughts, wildfires and other disasters, according to the State of the Global Climate annual report by the World Meteorological …
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