London (AFP) - South Africa captain AB de Villiers wants the Twenty20 series against England to help soothe the Proteas' wounds after their early exit from the Champions Trophy. De Villiers' men did not make it out of the group stage of the eight-team one-day international tournament, their fate sealed with a thumping defeat by India at The Oval ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - France and the United States reached agreement on Tuesday on a draft UN resolution that would pave the way for the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists in the Sahel region. The UN Security Council is expected to vote Wednesday on the draft resolution that welcomes the deploy ...
Bamako (AFP) - Mali's former rebel alliance on Tuesday rejected a national reconciliation charter unveiled on the second anniversary of the signing a peace deal with the government, underscoring the country's fraying peace process. Ex-rebels of the Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA) signed a peace deal on June 20, 2015 aimed at curbing se ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - France and the United States have reached agreement on a draft UN resolution that would pave the way for the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight jihadists in the Sahel region, diplomats said Tuesday. A vote at the UN Security Council could take place as early as Wednesday on the draf ...
Paris (AFP) - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday dropped a libel suit against Le Monde after the influential French daily apologised for running a photo linking him to the Panama Papers financial scandal. Basile Ader, a lawyer for the ailing 80-year-old president, told a Paris court Bouteflika's magnanimous decision came after ...
Rabat (AFP) - Police have arrested three more members of a protest movement in northern Morocco's neglected Rif region, prompting hundreds of demonstrators to rally demanding their release, activists said Tuesday. Three activists from Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or Popular Movement , were arrested Monday in the flashpoint northern port of Al-Hoceima, a ...
Mogadishu (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed Tuesday when Shabaab Islamists drove an explosives-laden minibus into local government offices in the Somali capital Mogadishu, according to the security ministry. The minibus rammed through a security barrier outside offices in the southern district of Wadajir, injuring nine people including the ...
Goulaleu (CÃ te d'Ivoire) (AFP) - Hurbain Souomi was only five years old, but he still remembers the day he trekked 50 kilometres (30 miles) across the border into Liberia to escape gunfire strafing his Ivory Coast village. There was shooting everywhere. My big sister rounded us up and we ran away to go to Liberia, he recalled, caught up in a ...
Johannesburg (AFP) - South African scrum-half Ross Cronje will miss this weekend's third and final Test against France because of delayed concussion symptoms, the Springboks said on Tuesday. Cronje, 27, made a strong debut in Pretoria two weeks ago against the French in the first Test match which the Boks clinched 37-14, following up with a seco ...
London (AFP) - Tributes were paid Tuesday to Joel Joffe, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the trial that saw the anti-apartheid icon jailed, following his death at the age of 85. Lord Joffe died on Sunday, said Oxfam, the aid agency which he chaired. The Nelson Mandela Foundation said the human rights lawyer died in London. Joffe was ...
Rome (AFP) - Nearly 2,000 people are believed to have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean this year, the UN's refugee agency said Tuesday on World Refugee Day, as it reported fresh deaths. This is among the world's most dangerous routes -- a journey that no one takes lightly, it said, as witnesses described the horror of watching friends ...
Nairobi (AFP) - A UN tribunal has agreed to review its appeals judgement against a former Rwandan minister found guilty of genocide crimes, a case blocked for months by the detention of one of the court's top judges. In a statement released Monday the UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals said in a rare legal move it would review i ...
DÃ ni Biram Ndaw (Senegal) (AFP) - Long before Sadio Mane and Diafra Sakho battled for Premier League supremacy, the two footballers made their mark at a Senegalese club increasingly recognised as a west African pipeline to the top of the game. Generation Foot began life as an academy in 2000 and the side became national champions for the first ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN Security Council has urged Djibouti and Eritrea to resolve their border dispute peacefully after tensions flared following the withdrawal of Qatari peacekeepers from a buffer zone. Djibouti accused Eritrea of moving its forces into the buffer zone last week, a day after Qatar, a mediator in the borde ...
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