Dar es Salaam (AFP) - A bus crash in Tanzania that claimed the lives of 32 primary school pupils, two teachers and the driver was likely caused by speeding, police said. Preliminary investigations show that the accident is due to speeding, regional police chief Charles Mkumbo told the state-run Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation late on Saturda ...
Palma (Mozambique) (AFP) - The small, palm-fringed fishing town of Palma was meant to become a symbol of Mozambique's glittering future, transformed by one of the world's largest liquefied natural gas projects. But construction has fallen far behind schedule and the town's fate is uncertain after gas prices fell and the government became engulfe ...
Rome (AFP) - Some 6,000 migrants hoping to head to Europe were rescued in the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday in dozens of frantic operations coordinated by the Italian coastguard. Some 3,000 were picked up Saturday by the navy, coastguard, EU border agency Frontex and several NGOs, the coastguard said in a statement. Some of them have a ...
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