During a meeting with the PM, Equatorial Guinea's First Lady Constancia Obiang expressed anger at the video scandal allegedly involving Baltasar Engonga.
During a meeting with the PM, Equatorial Guinea's First Lady Constancia Obiang expressed anger at the video scandal allegedly involving Baltasar Engonga.
An explosion killed at least nine people on a bus in central Mali on Thursday, a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. Mines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are among the jihadists' weapons of choice.
"I think the whole thing is about a woman challenging a big shot," says Aminata Toure. "This man needs to be challenged."
Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted nearly 70 percent in the last 50 years, according to a landmark assessment released Thursday that highlights "devastating" losses to nature due to human activity. Globally, the report found that monitored animal populations had fallen 69 percent since 1970.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday ordered traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the spread of Ebola, which has already claimed the lives of 19 individuals in the impoverished East African country.
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that clinical trials could start within weeks on vaccines to combat the strain of Ebola behind a deadly outbreak in Uganda.
About 500 people have died in Nigeria's worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season, the government said. Nigeria's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday that "over 1.4 million persons were displaced, about 500 persons have been reported dead... and 1,546 persons were injured".
Chadian leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno's plans to stay in power beyond his initially-promised deadline have stirred anger at home and embarrassment for his backers abroad. The junta had originally declared it would restore civilian rule after 18 months in power, and Deby had at first promised he would not take part in the future elections.
Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. Tchicanou and the neighbouring village Bondi host pipelines and pylons for carrying oil products and electricity.
South Africa head coach Mark Boucher on Tuesday said his bowlers need to be more aggressive in the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia on pitches that will suit their seamers. "Australia will suit our fast bowlers a lot better," Boucher, who will step down as the national coach after T20's showpiece event, told reporters.
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