Mogadishu (AFP) - An American soldier has been killed in a night-time raid in Somalia, in what is believed to be the first US military death in combat there since the infamous events of Black Hawk Down 24 years ago. The death occurred three weeks after the US announced the deployment of a few dozen troops to Somalia, tasked with training and ...
Dakar (AFP) - Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, the former head of a military junta who ruled Mauritania from 2005 until 2007, died Friday of a heart attack while on holiday, his family and an official news agency said. Born in 1953, Vall served as the head of a transition government that handed over to Mauritania's first democratically elected president, ...
Bonn, 5 May 2017-- In a next round of UN climate change negotiations, nations are meeting from 8 ndash; 18 May 2017 to further develop the guidelines needed to fully implement the landmark 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement now and over the decades to come. Issues under discussion range from ensuring transparency on the reporting of cl ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - An American soldier was shot dead and two others wounded in a night-time raid with Somali forces against Shabaab militants in Somalia, the US military said Friday. On May 4, one US service member was killed during an operation against Al-Shabaab near Barii, Somalia, approximately 40 miles west of Mogadishu, said a statement f ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - An American soldier was shot dead and two others wounded in Somalia during a joint operation with Somali forces against Shabaab militants, the US military said Friday. On May 4, one US service member was killed during an operation against al-Shabaab near Barii, Somalia, approximately 40 miles west of Mogadishu, said a stateme ...
Monza (Italy) (AFP) - Three elite runners backed by a small army of scientists will on Saturday attempt an audacious assault on the boundaries of the possible by trying to run a marathon in less than two hours. Reigning Olympic marathon champion Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya, Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa and Eritrea's Zersenay Tadese will aim to complet ...
Catania (Italy) (AFP) - Rescuers in the Mediterranean raced Friday to the aid of more than 20 migrant dinghies in distress as the debate in Italy over privately-funded aid ships intensified and the death toll at sea ticked steadily upwards. There are over 20 boats in difficulty off Libya and an already tense situation has worsened with people i ...
Algiers (AFP) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's party and its coalition ally have won a clear majority in parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results released by the interior minister on Friday. Bouteflika's National Liberation Front (FLN), which has dominated the North African nation's politics since its 1962 independenc ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - The Somali government sacked the country's auditor-general on Friday, after his bodyguards were accused of shooting dead the minister of public works, apparently by accident. Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, the 31-year-old public works minister, was killed on Wednesday when government security guards shot at his vehicle outside the pre ...
New York (AFP) - The NBA announced the opening of its first NBA Academy basketball training center in Africa, in Thies, Senegal. The center, designed to serve the top men and women prospects from throughout the continent, was opened in partnership with the SEED Project, the Sports for Education and Economic Development non-profit organization th ...
Al-Hoceima (Morocco) (AFP) - Morocco's northern Rif region has been rocked by protests since the death of a fishmonger crushed in a rubbish truck there last October. Here are five things to know about the region: Berber identity The Rif is a mountainous region largely inhabited by Berbers who speak the Tarifit dialect of Amazigh. ...
Al-Hoceima (Morocco) (AFP) - In Morocco's neglected Rif region, where outrage erupted last year over the gruesome death of a fishmonger, calls for justice have evolved into a grassroots movement demanding jobs and hospitals. Mouhcine Fikri, 31, was crushed in a rubbish truck in October in the northern city of Al-Hoceima as he tried to protest ag ...
New York (AFP) - The NBA announced the opening of its first NBA Academy basketball training center in Africa, in Thies, Senegal. The center, designed to serve the top men and women prospects from throughout the continent, was opened in partnership with the SEED Project, the Sports for Education and Economic Development non-profit organization th ...
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