Bamako (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda-linked jihadist alliance claimed responsibility Monday for an attack on a tourist resort near Mali's capital that left five people dead, including members of a European Union mission to the country. The Group to Support Islam and Muslims, a fusion of jihadist groups with previous Al-Qaeda links, said in a statement thr ...
Paris (AFP) - Climate change could wipe out more than half of Ethiopia's coffee production unless farmers move to higher ground, scientists warned Monday. Climbing temperatures and dwindling rainfall have already degraded prime growing areas, such as the Zege Peninsula, they reported in the journal Nature Plants. If global warming continues u ...
Rome (AFP) - At least 126 migrants were feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of Libya while trying to make the perilous crossing to Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday. According to four survivors, the migrants left Thursday from Libya but their inflatable boat sank several hours into the journey, IO ...
New York (AFP) - Britain's Luol Deng, Swiss star Thabo Sefolosha, Germany's Dirk Nowitzki and American Kemba Walker will serve as captains for the NBA Africa Game 2017, organizers announced Monday. The matchup between Team World and Team Africa, the NBA's second game in the continent, will be staged August 5 in Johannesburg following the 15th ed ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - South Africa coach Allister Coetzee has ruled out picking an experimental team for the dead rubber final Test against France in Johannesburg this Saturday. The Springboks took an uncatchable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series by winning 37-15 in Durban last Saturday, having triumphed 37-14 in Pretoria seven days earlier. ...
Bamako (AFP) - Three foreigners and a Malian civilian and soldier were killed in an jihadist assault on a popular tourist resort near Mali's capital, the country's security minister said Monday. Salif Traore said a Chinese man, a Portuguese man, a Gabonese national and a Malian were killed when gunmen fired on guests at the Kangaba Le Campement ...
Cotonou (AFP) - Benin President Patrice Talon underwenttwo surgeries during a prolonged stay in Paris, one procedure due to doctors finding a lesion in his prostate, his office said Monday. The admission comes weeks after Talon's absence, which lasted nearly a month, had been a hot topic in the tiny West African nation, prompting the government ...
Bamako (AFP) - Two civilians killed in an assault this weekend on a popular tourist resort near the Mali capital, Bamako, worked for the European Union, the bloc's foreign affairs chief said Monday. Five suspected jihadists have been placed in custody while four attackers were killed at the scene, Security Minister Salif Traore told AFP. He s ...
Paris (AFP) - A lawyer for the free-spending son of Equatorial Guinea's longtime leader on Monday called for a new postponement of his high-profile Paris trial for corruption. As Teodorin Obiang's trial resumed after a six-month pause, his lawyer Emmanuel Marsigny requested a fresh delay pending the outcome of an appeal to the International Cour ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - A Somali military court sentenced a naval officer to death Monday for shooting dead the minister of public works in what the defense argued was an accident. A young minister seen as an inspiration to many in the conflict-torn nation, Abbas Abdullahi Siraji, 31, was killed last month when armed guards shot at his vehicle outside ...
Bamako (AFP) - Mali's government said Monday five suspected jhadists were in custody after an assault on a popular tourist resort near the capital, Bamako, which left two civilians dead. Four attackers were killed at the scene, Security Minister Salif Traore told AFP, while 36 hostages were freed following the incident at the Kangaba Le Campemen ...
Geneva (AFP) - Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in places like Syria and South Sudan had left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes by the end of 2016, the UN said Monday. That number marks a jump of just 300,000 from the end of 2015, but is more than six million higher than at the end of 2014, according to a fres ...
Algiers (AFP) - It's a rubbish job, but someone has to do it. Or some animal: in the alleyways of Algiers' famed Kasbah, donkeys shift tonnes of trash every day. Some streets in the Kasbah are so narrow that single file is necessary. Others are wider but are steep and stepped, ruling out more usual rubbish collection methods. Hence the resort ...
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