‘Hardest Geezer’ Finishes Running the Length of Africa
Russ Cook of Britain overcame danger in a year of running from South Africa to Tunisia.
Russ Cook of Britain overcame danger in a year of running from South Africa to Tunisia.
Some of the victims were en route to a fair and others were fleeing for fear of being affected by a cholera outbreak, a local official said.
The Central African country is marking the anniversary of a monthslong rampage by militiamen that killed some 800,000 people.
Thirty years after a devastating genocide, Rwanda has made impressive gains. But ethnic divisions persist under an iron-fisted president who has ruled for just as long.
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
The legal problems of Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula expose the governing African National Congress to one of its biggest weaknesses — corruption allegations — ahead of a crucial national election.
The law, which includes the death penalty as a punishment in some cases, has been strongly condemned, including by the United States.
Hundreds of newcomers from Africa have filled a shortage of workers in Rouyn-Noranda, creating a new community in a remote mining town.
Senegal’s new president, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, took the oath of office in Tuesday’s ceremony. Close behind him sat the popular opposition leader who had clinched the win.
Forty-five church pilgrims from Botswana, along with the driver, were killed when the bus plunged off an overpass into a rocky ravine in South Africa. The only survivor was a little girl.