Category: Africa and the rest of the world

Former Chadian president Hissene Habre was buried Thursday in Senegal’s capital Dakar, AFP journalists saw, where he had been serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. The former leader was jailed in Dakar in 2016 after an African Union-backed trial over abuses committed during years of iron-fisted rule in Chad. On Tuesday, he succumbed […]

Flood . Credit: Getty Images The death toll from heavy rains that triggered mudslides and floods in western Venezuela has risen to 20, local authorities said Wednesday, with 17 other people missing. Nine states are in an “emergency” situation and more than 54,000 people have been affected by the downpours, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos told […]

This file photo taken on December 6, 2016 shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel gesturing after addressing delegates during her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party’s congress in Essen, Western Germany. – Wrapping up a historic 16 years in power with an uncertain legacy at home and abroad, Germany’s “eternal chancellor” Angela Merkel, 67, leaves office […]

Russia’s central regions on Wednesday battled “extreme” wildfires fueled by an unusual heatwave that comes after forest fires linked to climate change ravaged Siberia for most of the summer. Authorities were fighting 15 wildfires in the Urals region of Sverdlovsk, the emergencies ministry said. The region — which lies on the border of Europe and […]

President elect Hakainde Hichilema gives a press briefing at his residence in Lusaka, on August 16, 2021. – Zambian business tycoon and veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema scored a landslide victory on August 16, 2021 in bitterly-contested presidential elections. (Photo by Patrick Meinhardt / AFP) Zambia’s newly elected president Hakainde Hichilema on Tuesday promised to […]

Former Chad President Hissene Habre makes declarations to media as he leaves a court in Dakar, Senegal November 25, 2005. Reuters /Aliou Mbaye /File Photo Former Chadian President Hissene Habre, who was serving a life term in Senegal for war crimes and crimes against humanity, has died, Senegalese Justice Minister Malick Sall said Tuesday. He […]

This US Air Force photo released August 22, 2021 shows members of US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) Joint Task Force-Haiti and senior leaders in Haiti visiting the earthquake epicenter in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, Haiti,on August 21, 2021. – At the request of USSOUTHCOM, service members deployed to support relief efforts for the people of Haiti after the nation […]

In this image courtesy of the US Marine Corps, evacuee children wait for the next flight after being manifested at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 19, 2021. Mark ANDRIES / US MARINE CORPS / AFP Bodies of at least three people were seen in the sweltering crush outside Kabul airport, television news footage […]

This picture taken on January 6, 2021 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 7, 2021 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking during the second day of the 8th Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang. (Photo by STR / KCNA VIA KNS / […]

Obasanjo (second right) with others at a peace meeting in Afghanistan on July 5, 2021. Photo: @ambmansoorkhan/Twitter Islamic militant group known as the Taliban retook Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital city, on Sunday, but the fall of the landlocked Asian country had been seen by many observers when US President Joe Biden started the withdrawal of American […]