Libreville (AFP) - EU monitors said Sunday that Gabon's top court had failed to rectify vote-counting anomalies in fiercely-disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo extended his family's rule in the oil-rich nation into a fifth decade. The European Union's electoral observer mission said it regretted that Gabon's Constitutional Court, ...
Libreville (AFP) - EU monitors said Sunday that Gabon's top court had failed to rectify vote-counting anomalies in fiercely-disputed elections in which President Ali Obama was declared the winner. In a statement, the European Union's electoral observer mission said it regretted that Gabon's Constitutional Court, which on Saturday ruled on op ...
Algiers (AFP) - The world's top oil producers must take a decision to stabilise prices, Algeria's energy minister said on Sunday ahead of an OPEC meeting on Wednesday in Algiers. Oil prices are already depressed after two years of oversupply amid deep disagreements between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Failin ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - Africa's elephant population has suffered its worst drop in 25 years, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Sunday, blaming the plummeting numbers on poaching. Based on 275 estimates from across the continent, a report by the conservation group put Africa's total elephant population at around 415,000 ...
Kenyan born Njeri Kabeberi, has been named as Executive Director for Greenpeace Africa (www.GreenpeaceAfrica.org) after an extensive search for a combination of skills required to drive the organisation towards a people ndash;powered movement. According to the Greenpeace Africa Board, Africans are hungry for a new story, one with a better ...
Berlin (AFP) - Kenenisa Bekele admitted he was disappointed to have narrowly missed out on the world record on Sunday as the Ethiopian won the Berlin marathon ahead of former winner Wilson Kipsang. The ex-Olympic 5,000m and 10,000m champion crossed the finish line in an unofficial time of two hours 03min 04sec -- just short of Dennis Kimetto's w ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - Reclusive, gentle and quick to roll up into a ball, pangolins keep a low profile. But they are also the world's most heavily trafficked mammal, and experts at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) conference this week are ringing alarm bells over their survival. Demand for pangolin meat and b ...
Timbuktu (Mali) (AFP) - Timbuktu's residents still recall with horror the sight of jihadists waging a campaign of destruction against the fabled Malian city, but now some say they are ready to forgive an extremist whose trial in The Hague they see as a rare moment of justice. On Tuesday, Ahmad Al-Faqi Al-Mahdi will be sentenced on war crimes cha ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - Zamalek of Egypt suffered a 5-2 thrashing at Wydad Casablanca of Morocco Saturday, but still qualified to meet Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa in the CAF Champions League final. The five-time African champions won the first leg of the semi-final 4-0 in Alexandria last weekend and squeezed through 6-5 on aggregate. Attem ...
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