Gaborone (Botswana) (AFP) - A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the southern African nation of Botswana on Monday, US seismologists said, with the tremor felt in several neighbouring countries. The epicentre of the quake, which hit at 7:40 pm (1740 GMT), was in a sparsely populated area 238 kilometres (about 150 miles) northwest o ...

New Delhi, India, April 1, 2017 ndash; The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President, Akinwumi Adesina has invited the New Development Bank (NDB) to support Light up and power Africa, the first of five top priorities of the Bank rsquo;s continental transformation agenda. ldquo;I am very pleased that the New Development Bank is investing ...

bull; Scales up AfDB-India and Africa-India Cooperation bull; Commends quality preparations for Bank rsquo;s 2017 Annual Meetings Ahmedabad, India, April 3, 2017 ndash; President Akinwumi Adesina of the African Development Bank (AfDB) left Ahmedabad, India, early on Monday at the end of a four-day official visit to India. The visit has ...

Mogadishu (AFP) - Somali pirates have seized an Indian cargo ship and 11 crew members, the ship's owner said Monday, as a recent series of hijackings raises fears of a resurgence in piracy. The Al Kausar is the third vessel to be hijacked in less than a month off the coast of Somalia as experts warn that ships have lowered their guard in the f ...

bull; Reports of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers include Haiti, CAR, DRC and South Sudan bull; Number of reported cases worldwide has risen since 2015 bull; Abusers to be ldquo;held criminally responsible rdquo; ndash; Saunders bull; ldquo;It rsquo;s an absolute joke. The UN has been saying this since 1948: z ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 3 April 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- You may have heard about the sword of Damocles, hanging above its target by a single hair. It 39;s a metaphor often used to describe impending doom, yet this is not the actual meaning. The story goes that a servant was taken by all of a king 39;s wealth and wanted to parta ...

Bamako (AFP) - A national peace summit in Mali ended Sunday with a call for negotiations with jihadists in the country's north, according to a resolution seen by AFP. The conference, enshrined in the country's 2015 peace deal, was intended to bring together the government, armed groups that support it, former rebels and the political opposition. ...