Paris (AFP) - An obsession with the lower jaw of a long-dead human, unearthed in the 1960s at a prehistoric Moroccan campsite, led palaeoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin to the discovery of a lifetime. After decades of work to identify the jawbone's owner, Hublin was able to announce Wednesday that it belonged to the earliest known member of ...
Paris (AFP) - Early Homo sapiens roamed Africa 300,000 years ago, sporting modern-looking faces that would not stand out in a crowd today, according to research published Wednesday that pushes back our origins by a hundred millennia. A groundbreaking fossil discovery in Morocco obliterates two decades of scientific consensus that our forefathers ...
Bamako (AFP) - France has asked the UN Security Council to authorise the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists and criminality in the Sahel region, with a vote expected as early as next week. What are the origins of the force composed of troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, and why is it nee ...
Cotonou (AFP) - Benin's foreign minister on Wednesday worked to reassure the nation that President Patrice Talon was healthy, despite mounting speculation about the cause of his week-long stay in France. He is staying in Paris and he is taking advantage of his stay to do a health check, Aurelien Agbenonci told AFP. Talon's absence has been ...
Maputo (AFP) - Police in Mozambique Tuesday warned that bald people could be the targets of ritual attacks, after the brutal killing of two men whose body parts were to be used in witchcraft. The two bald men, one of whom was found with his head cut off and organs removed, were killed in a part of the country already notorious for the persecutio ...
Police in Mozambique have warned that bald men could be the targets of ritual attacks, after the killing of two of them last month. The two bald men, one of whom was found with his head cut off and organs removed, were killed in the central Zambezia province, AFP new agency reports. quot;Last month, the murders of two bald people led ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - France on Tuesday asked the UN Security Council to authorize the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists in the Sahel region. A draft resolution circulated to the 15-member council would give the Sahel force a UN mandate to use all necessary means to combat terrorism, drug t ...
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