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Syria FM's Iraq visit focuses on security![]() ![]() Baghdad (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 Syria's interim foreign minister said in Baghdad on Friday his government was ready to "reinforce cooperation" with Iraq in the fight against remnants of the Islamic State group. Asaad al-Shaibani's visit to Syria's neighbour coincided with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announcing that security forces had killed a senior IS leader. It was also Shaibani's first visit to Iraq since his Islamist alliance toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in December. Relations between neighbo ... read more |
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![]() Abidjan (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 The military regime in Burkina Faso on Friday announced that it was creating new rapid response forces, recruiting 14,000 soldiers and thousands of civilian support staff, to fight jihadist violence. ... more ![]() ![]() Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 Sudanese paramilitary shelling of El-Obeid on Friday killed six people, including a child, a doctor said, just weeks after the army broke a prolonged siege of the key southern city. ... more ![]() ![]() Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Mar 12, 2025 A Russian ballistic missile strike overnight on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed four people and damaged a Barbados-flagged cargo ship, authorities said Wednesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Lompoul, Senegal (AFP) Mar 17, 2025 Like something from the science fiction film "Dune", the "world's biggest mining dredger" has been swallowing acre after acre of the fertile coastal strip where most of Senegal's vegetables are grown. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Mar 11, 2025 Despite an improvement in 2024, India again dominated global rankings for the cities with the most dangerous particle smog while Chad was the most polluted country, according to a report published Tuesday. ... more |
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![]() Maputo (AFP) Mar 12, 2025 The latest cyclone to hit northern Mozambique has claimed at least six lives and destroyed more than 900 homes, authorities said Wednesday, as the storm weakened. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (AFP) Mar 11, 2025 The International Monetary Fund has approved an additional $1.3 billion assistance program for Egypt under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) meant to mitigate the impact of climate change, the organization said Tuesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Niamey, Niger (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 Niger's military rulers have expelled three Chinese oil executives from the country and closed down a Chinese-run hotel, media reports and an official decree indicated Friday. ... more ![]() ![]() Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Mar 14, 2025 A new graft scandal rocked the European Parliament after police carried out raids Thursday in Belgium and Portugal, detaining multiple suspects in a probe into suspicions of corruption under the guise of lobbying for the benefit of Chinese tech giant Huawei. ... more |
![]() Dakar (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 A natural gas leak that was ongoing for three weeks at a new field off the coasts of Senegal and Mauritania has been stopped, its operator BP said Thursday. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Niamey, Niger (AFP) Mar 13, 2025 International Atomic Energy Agency Director General (IAEA) Rafael Grossi on Thursday urged greater cooperation with Niger while on a visit to the junta-led Sahel nation, a leading source of uranium. ... more ![]() ![]() Kyiv, Ukraine (AFP) Mar 12, 2025 A Russian ballistic missile strike overnight on the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa killed four people and damaged a Barbados-flagged cargo ship, Ukrainian authorities said Wednesday. ... more ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2025 Vodafone Group Plc (LSE: VOD), a leading telecommunications provider in Europe and Africa, and AST SpaceMobile Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company developing the first space-based cellular broadband ne ... more ![]() ![]() Nairobi (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 Man-made climate change increased the likelihood of the heatwave gripping South Sudan, a study said Friday, saying soaring temperatures were disproportionately affecting women and girls. ... more |
![]() Dakar (AFP) Mar 7, 2025 Greenpeace condemned BP on Thursday for a gas leak that has been ongoing for several weeks at a new field the British oil giant operates off Senegal and Mauritania. ... more ![]() ![]() Conakry (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Guinea's anti-graft court on Thursday began hearing the appeal of Mohamed Diane, a highly influential defence minister under former president Alpha Conde as he fights to overturn a five-year jail term for embezzlement. ... more ![]() ![]() Harare (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 A proposed coal mining project in Zimbabwe's Hwange Park, renowned for its safaris, poses a threat to its endangered black rhino population, the southern African country's national parks management authority said Thursday. ... more ![]() ![]() Johannesburg (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 The United States has pulled out of a climate funding deal struck by rich nations to help their developing counterparts transition to clean energy, the programme's first beneficiary South Africa and Indonesia said Thursday. ... more |
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![]() Lusaka (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 The Zambian government is allowing hazardous mining in the lead-contaminated central town of Kabwe, worsening severe health risks to children, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. ... more ![]() ![]() N'Djamena (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 The party of Chad's military ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby won 43 of 46 seats in the country's first senate elections, according to final results released Tuesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Dakar (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Work is under way to repair a gas leak at a new offshore natural gas field off Senegal and Mauritania which poses no risk to employees, operator British energy giant BP said Wednesday. ... more ![]() ![]() Juba (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 South Sudan troops have arrested the oil minister and deputy head of the armed forces, both allies of Vice-President Riek Machar, as fears grew on Wednesday for the country's fragile peace agreement. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Dar Es Salaam (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 Tanzania received 18 white rhinos from South Africa on Tuesday as it seeks to boost conservation and tourism, local authorities said. ... more |
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![]() Sargodha, Pakistan (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 Under a dry, smoggy sky, a beekeeper in Pakistan's Punjab province carefully loads boxes filled with tens of thousands of bees onto the back of a truck. ... more ![]() ![]() Agavedzi, Ghana (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 Heavy waves have since Saturday flooded Ghana's coastal Volta Region, displacing some 1,000 people and destroying homes and schools, prompting local authorities to declare a state of emergency. ... more ![]() ![]() Bangkok (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 A Thai court on Tuesday accepted a class-action lawsuit filed by hundreds of fishermen seeking $73 million in damages from a agribusiness giant over invasive blackchin tilapia, a representative of the Thai lawyers' council said. ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2025 For years, rainforests have been considered inhospitable to early human populations, but a groundbreaking discovery now suggests that humans were living in these dense environments as far back as 15 ... more |
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