The Hague (AFP) - World players' union FIFPro urged Italian football powers Tuesday to quash Sully Muntari's yellow card for leaving the pitch over the weekend, after fans hurled racial abused at the Ghanaian player. The former AC Milan and Inter midfielder dramatically left the field Sunday while playing for Pescara at Cagliari after he angrily ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisian and international non-governmental organisations warned Tuesday of deteriorating freedom of the press in a country considered to be a rare success story of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. The Tunisian government these past weeks has not stopped tightening its grip on the press, they said in a joint statement published on ...
The Hague (AFP) - World football players' union FIFPro urged Italian football powers Tuesday to quash Sulley Muntari's yellow card for leaving the pitch over the weekend, after fans hurled racial abused at the Ghanian player. The former AC Milan and Inter midfielder dramatically left the field Sunday while playing for Pescara at Cagliari after h ...
Kigali (AFP) - Around 20 of Africa's endangered Eastern black rhinos are returning in an extraordinary homecoming to Rwanda after the species disappeared there 10 years ago, the African Parks organisation said Tuesday. The rhinos are being moved from South Africa to the Akagera national park in eastern Rwanda, according to the non-profit group ...
The commodities downturn has revealed the fragility and structural weaknesses of many African economies. With fast-growing populations, African states are under intense pressure to deliver for their citizens. At the same time, austerity is impacting Africa rsquo;s traditional donors, with foreign governments focused on domestic priorities rather ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, and Ibadan, Nigeria, April 30, 2017 ndash; Youth from all over Africa came together in the first-ever African Youth Agripreneurs (AYA) Forum in Ibadan, Nigeria, on April 25-26, 2017. The forum provided an opportunity for the youth to show their skills, creativity, and innovativeness in agribusiness, and also ...
Geneva (AFP) - Somalia, hit by drought and on the verge of famine, will count 1.4 million acutely malnourished children by the end of the year, up 50 percent from late 2016, the UN said Tuesday. The United Nations children's agency warned that 275,000 of those children were expected to be so severely malnourished that they could easily die. S ...
Algiers (AFP) - Algeria, where legislative elections are to be held on Thursday, has major oil and gas reserves but faces a financial crisis due to the collapse in oil prices. The country has been led since 1999 by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was re-elected to a fourth term in 2014 despite severe health problems. Former French colony ...
Algiers (AFP) - Algerians go to the polls on Thursday to elect a new parliament amid concerns that a low turnout will mar a vote which officials say is necessary to maintain stability. The election comes as the North African country grapples with a deep financial crisis because of a drop in oil revenues and amid criticism from people who say the ...
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