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19879 articles published since 08 Mar 2022
19879 articles published since 08 Mar 2022
World champions South Africa ended 2022 with a 27-13 win over England in their concluding Autumn Nations Series international at Twickenham on Saturday. But the Springboks, unlike the All Blacks, held firm for their second victory in four Autumn matches as they ended the calendar year with nine wins from 14 Tests ahead of their 2023 World Cup defence in France.
Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, hinting that his political ambitions remained undimmed. Ble Goude is the last major pro-Gbagbo figure from the post-electoral crisis to return to Ivory Coast.
Brand new homes intended for Equatorial Guinea's lower-income families have cropped up across the capital Malabo, but shanty town residents say they are going to the middle class and wealthy instead.
Ninety years ago, millions perished in Ukraine in a manmade famine under Joseph Stalin that many in the country call genocide. Ukraine officially considers it a "genocide" along with a number of Western countries, a label that Moscow vehemently rejects.
Benin forces have clashed with gunmen near the country's northern border with Burkina Faso leaving four attackers dead, the army said. The army said a dozen gunmen attacked a military post early Friday in Kaobagou near the border, but troops resisted and pushed them back in a counter-offensive.
A roadside bomb killed four troops in the north of Burkina Faso, an area wracked by a jihadist insurgency for years, the army said on Saturday. Disgruntled army officers have carried out two coups this year in a show of anger at failures to roll back the insurgency.
Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, an AFP reporter said. Wearing a suit and tie, the 50-year-old Ble Goude landed at the airport in the capital Abidjan after flying in on a commercial flight from neighbouring Ghana, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.
The government of Nicolas Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition are to restart political talks in Mexico on Saturday after a 15-month standoff, aiming to break a stalemate over what constitutes "free" elections. But the State Department insists that any easing would come only if the Maduro government moves in concrete steps toward holding free elections.
South Africa's ruling party protested outside a top court Saturday after it ordered the release of a Polish immigrant whose killing of an anti-apartheid hero in 1993 almost sparked civil conflict. On Saturday, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party and the South African Communist Party (SACP) -- both of which have ties to Hani -- led a gathering outside the court to protest the decision.
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