Africa
India welcomes back cheetahs, 70 years after local extinction
Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday, decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has divided experts on its prospects. Cheetahs became extinct in India primarily because of habitat loss and hunting for their distinctive spotted coats.
Top Kenyan photographer's unseen images of the queen
Queen Elizabeth II smiling at children waving Kenyan flags and the Union Jack, alighting from the "Royal Train" or shaking hands with a curious little boy -- are all previously unseen images from an enormous archive taken by celebrated photojournalist Mohamed Amin.
"What is your secret?" Pretty lady's thick 'natural' hair makes men go crazy, she flaunts it in viral video
A pretty young lady known as Maame Serwaaa has become an internet sensation after a video showed her flaunting nice-looking thick hair that got girls shouting.
Springbok Jantjies apologises, but denies affair with team dietician
Springbok fly-half Elton Jantjies, who early this week was sent home from Argentina ahead of a Rugby Championship match, said on Friday that "I let myself...down" but denied having an affair with the squad's dietician. The Springboks are due to play Argentina on September 17 in the Rugby Championship.
Namibian cheetahs head for India, 70 years after local extinction
Eight Namibian cheetahs were on Friday airlifted to India, part of an ambitious project to reintroduce the big cats after they were driven to extinction there decades ago, officials and vets said. Negotiations are ongoing for similar translocation from South Africa, a government official told AFP on Friday, with vets suggesting 12 cats could be moved.
Chadian rebel returns for talks on country's future
A leading Chadian rebel flew home on Friday to join talks on the country's political future, after spending nearly two years in jail in Egypt, an AFP reporter saw. There have been no other details about his release, which had been a condition set by the UFR for joining a forum on charting the military-run country's return to civilian rule.
Guinea trial to start on anniversary of 2009 massacre
The West African state of Guinea on Friday announced that the long-awaited trial over a 2009 massacre will begin on September 28, 13 years to the day after an event that marked a turning point in its history. On 28 September 2009, a group of NGOs and opposition parties organised a rally at a stadium in the capital Conakry.
Air strikes, floods displace Nigeria jihadists
Hundreds of Boko Haram jihadists have fled a forest enclave in northeast Nigeria, escaping air strikes by the military and floods from torrential rains to seek shelter on Niger's side of Lake Chad, sources told AFP. Northeast Nigeria is facing a 13-year armed insurgency by jihadist groups which has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes.
Queen's death leaves Zimbabweans conflicted
On a chilly spring morning, a kilted piper playing the bagpipes led diplomats into Harare's stone-walled Anglican Cathedral for a thanksgiving service in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. But the turnout among the public was meagre -- numbering in the dozens -- and the flags that flew at half-mast were in honour not of Zimbabwe's former monarch but of an army brigadier who had died a week after her.
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