Video footage has shown Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger being attacked at an event in South Africa. The 71-year-old former California governor was interacting with fans during a skipping competition at his Arnold Classic Africa sporting event when a man drop-kicked him from behind. The attacker is seen being restrained following the incident. Schwarzenegger thanked fans […]
Zillah oilfield attack comes as head of Libya’s NOC warned instability could lead to 95 percent oil production loss. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) have killed at least three troops at a security checkpoint in southern Libya, according to officials. In a statement on Saturday, the self-styled Libyan National […]
Pressure is growing on Germany and the UK to return to Africa skulls taken as trophies and for discredited racial research more than a century ago, writes the BBC’s Damian Zane. A Tanzanian based in Germany, Mnyaka Sururu Mboro, has been searching for the lost skull of Mangi Meli for 40 years. Mangi Meli, a […]
A court in Kenya has ordered former President Daniel arap Moi to pay 1.06bn shillings ($10.5m; £8.2m) in compensation to a widow for illegally seizing her land. Mr Moi transferred to himself 53 acres of land belonging to widow Susan Cheburet Chelugui, the judge ruled. The land was illegally grabbed 36 years ago but only […]
JOHANNESBURG (BLOOMBERG) – South Africa’s biggest labour union group wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to cut the size of his Cabinet to 26 ministers and a maximum of six deputies, and exclude anyone implicated in graft. The appointments will be the next big step for investors watching for signs that Mr Ramaphosa can follow through on promises […]
NORFOLK, Va. — A Navy SEAL pleaded guilty on Thursday to restraining an Army Green Beret with duct tape before he died in a June 2017 struggle with other commandos who were deployed on a secret mission in Bamako, Mali. Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews told a military court that he had agreed to […]
The Sahel region already has its fair share of armed Islamist groups, with the likes of Boko Haram and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb turning, at one time or another, parts of Niger, Mali, Algeria and Nigeria into theatres of conflict. Could Burkina Faso be a new base for the jihadists? Despite intense military operations […]
A US NGO worker has been seized and his two guards killed in western Niger, his NGO and a local official say. He was driven towards the border with Mali, the mayor of the town of Abalak, Ahmed Dilo, told Reuters news agency. Gunmen arrived on a motorbike and then an all-terrain vehicle, first killing […]
A whirring sound is heard in the sky above Niamey, the capital of Niger. Several soldiers get into position. It’s a drill they’ve been through countless times. As the engine noise grows louder, what at first appeared to be a small plane reveals itself as something else altogether. It is a drone. This is Base […]
If the purpose of art is to elicit a strong reaction then exhibiting a shipwreck at one of the world’s biggest art exhibitions has passed the test. But has it overstepped the boundaries of taste? Critics have hit out at the use of the hull of the ship, in which hundreds of migrants drowned, at […]