"we have an ambassador and diplomatic staff who are literally being held hostage in the French embassy as I speak. Food deliveries have been prevented, they are eating military rations and they are staying there because, quite simply, France, which sup...
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The same region was devastated last July by huge forest fires, which claimed around thirty lives.
The possible recruitment of civilians, which could worsen already deadly violence, has been the subject of debate for weeks. The conflict which erupted on mid-April started as a power struggle between generals. Since then, at least 5,000 people have be...
Spokesperson for the graduates, Hayley Reichert believes the delay in allocating dates for the graduates to write their board exams and be placed to work in the health system is one of the reasons South Africa has a shortage of medical staff.
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority announced it had brought the retail price of a litre of petrol to an unprecedented more than 200 Kenyan shillings ($1.36). Kenyans already face a harsh cost of living crisis with rising prices for many stap...
China and Zambia said they'd enhance trade cooperation; with the Chinese side vowing to invite Zambia to continuously participate in the China International Import Expo. Xi and Hichilema agreed to designate 2024 as the Year of Business Cooperation.
"There are lots of land disputes in Kinshasa, thousands of them," said Theo Sindani Kasita, a property lawyer in the megacity of an estimated 15 million people. Families are regularly evicted without being notified of a court decision, and before tenan...
Marrakesh has a rich architectural heritage, and much of it suffered damage in last week’s quake, the strongest ever to hit the Kingdom in a century. Traditional housing- riads- in the historic medina which didn't suffer any damage are now suffering fi...
US pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson is under investigation in South Africa for allegedly charging "excessive" prices for a key tuberculosis drug, the country's antitrust regulator said on Friday.
French star Paul Pogba was questioned Friday (Sep. 15) alongside five acquaintances and childhood friends suspected of involvement in a March 2022 extortion attempt against him, sources familiar with the case told new agency AFP.
