“The Somaliland army is shelling civilian areas using mortars and heavy artillery,” Las Anod mayor Abdirahim Ali Ismail said by phone. “The general practitioner treating the wounded in the war died in the hospital.” Doctor Mohammad Farah of Las Anod Hospital confirmed the death toll and the shelling. Somaliland government officials were not immediately available […]
Pope Francis ends an emotional visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Friday and leaves for neighboring South Sudan, which has been struggling to overcome decades of conflict and poverty. The 86-year-old pontiff, on his third visit to sub-Saharan Africa since the beginning of his papacy in 2013, was greeted by huge crowds […]
Comets are composed of a solid core of rock, ice and dust and are covered by a thin and gaseous atmosphere of more ice and dust, called a coma. They melt as they approach the Sun, releasing a stream of gas and dust blown from their surface by solar radiation and plasma and forming a […]
Light pollution has raised concerns about its ecological effects on people and animals. For example, research has shown how light pollution endangers fireflies, which have specialized light-emitting organs and glow to communicate as a part of courtship and reproduction. The researchers said more could be done to reduce light pollution, including better design of the […]
The death toll from a gas tanker explosion in Johannesburg on Saturday has risen to fifteen from an earlier estimate of eight, officials said. An explosion that blew the roof off Tambo Memorial Hospital’s emergency department, a vehicle fire under a low bridge on Christmas Eve injured two homes, several cars and people nearby.
no trace of him The army moved the women and children to a nearby camp in the town of Madagali – a cluster of five army tents and one thatched hut, she said. There he was interrogated and medical checkup done. The jawans took his blood and urine samples. The next day, he tells Ayesha […]
Bodies of 27 migrants found in Chadian desert
“If I were a turtle, I wouldn’t want to live or be born in West Africa, or Africa, period,” he said. The 46 turtles making the journey from Monaco’s Oceanographic Museum to the turtle village of Noufle, about 35 kilometers (20 miles) from Senegal’s capital Dakar, are all young – the oldest only eight years […]
arab and african joi “Wow, wow… Morocco! It’s such a joy! Africa is shining! Go to Africa!” shouted Agwe Jefferson, 28, the driver in Yaounde, Cameroon’s capital. In Libya, crowds watching the game in the port city of Misrata lit red lights and waved the Libyan and Moroccan flags, while people in the Tunisian capital […]
A major topic will be the fate of the African Development and Opportunity Act, the 2000 deal that granted duty-free access to the US market for most products from sub-Saharan countries that met standards on rights and democracy. The accord expires in 2025, with prominent African leaders seeking clarity at a time when the United […]
“The fighting resumed mainly in Ansongo [Gao region] And other districts… there have been many deaths, many deaths,” said Bazan Ag Hamtou, a former lawmaker who is now a member of the transitional council formed after the military seized power in a 2020 coup. Hamatou said on Thursday that at least 100 people had been […]
The spokesman said the shipment of 20,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer is the first of a series of exports destined for Africa in the coming months, with Tuesday’s load being sent to Malawi via Mozambique. The UN-brokered deal, first signed in July, was renewed earlier this month and allows grain exports from some Ukrainian ports […]
