YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – At least six people were killed in a crush on Monday outside a stadium hosting a game in Africa’s biggest football tournament, raising fears that Cameroon could safely stage the continent’s biggest sporting event, a local government official said. told. The crush came as crowds struggled to get into the Olembe Stadium …
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At that time I reported from villages in Eswatini, then known as Swaziland, where I found no more than a handful of people my age, only children and the elderly. I wrote about the day Nelson Mandela from Johannesburg broke a strong taboo and told South Africans that his son had died of AIDS. I …
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At that time I reported from villages in Eswatini, then known as Swaziland, where I found no more than a handful of people my age, only children and the elderly. I wrote about the day Nelson Mandela from Johannesburg broke a strong taboo and told South Africans that his son had died of AIDS. I …
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Underscoring growing concerns about Omicron, scientists in South Africa said Friday that the newest coronavirus variant is spreading twice as fast as Delta, which is considered the most contagious version of the virus. The rapid spread of Omicron was due to a combination of contagion and its ability to circumvent the body’s immune defenses, the …
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A rapid transition is crucial in the global fight against climate change. But not only is this particularly costly in poor countries, many African countries have an abundance of natural gas or other fossil fuels, and they vehemently argue that the rest of the world has no right to tell them not to use it. …
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“For Malawi, this shows that it is not a sacred cow,” said Mr. Kaonga. “Money can’t save you, and there is a limit to what corruption can really bring you.” The Chinese embassy in Malawi did not respond to questions about the case. Eighteen other members of Mr. Lin’s network – including four of his …
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BORN IN THE DARK Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to World War IIby Howard W. French In 1444, the citizens of Lagos in southern Portugal witnessed a new landscape. When they filled the beach, the 235 newly arrived Black prisoners were driven ashore. Overseers separated families as desperate mothers hugged …
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“We knew we wouldn’t be able to get the vaccines as quickly as the Americas and Europe, so we’re grateful to have some work to do under these circumstances,” said George Gituku, owner of Sandrage Safaris in Kenya. In 2019, Kenya received more than two million international visitors, a record number and an increase of …
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Tropical Storm Rose formed in western Africa on Sunday, making it the 17th storm of the intense 2021 Atlantic hurricane season and the third to develop in less than a week. The storm, which was several hundred miles southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands as of 5 pm in the East, Expected to start weakening …
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Researchers announced Tuesday that the trial of an advanced HIV vaccine in Africa has been shut down after data showing that the vaccines offer only limited protection against the virus. The vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson is one in a long line where it offers little defense against one of medicine’s most formidable enemies, …
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Researchers have some theories. If early humans had moved from Africa much earlier, they would have faced fierce competition from other early human species; the north was a Neanderthal stronghold, and much of East Asia was probably populated by another extinct human lineage, the Denisovans. Models also suggest that dry periods often follow favorable windows, …
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If you see a lizard climbing the side of a house in Florida or in Central or South America closer to the equator, there’s a good chance it’s an African house lizard, Hemidactylus mabouia. Small and brown, the African house lizard is now common in the Western Hemisphere. However, the gecko originated in Southeast Africa …
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