Six members of the 16-man crew on a Liberia-flagged tanker are being held hostage by pirates who boarded the ship in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea last week, the Danish shipper that owns the vessel and the French Navy said Friday. Pirates
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Three major jolts in as many years coupled with the once unthinkable possibility of a power grid collapse have spooked reinsurers in South Africa, spelling an end to cheap coverage in the continent’s most developed insurance market. Insurance premiums are climbing worldwide
The mysterious Wagner Group is reportedly set to refocus efforts away from Ukraine amid an ongoing dispute with Vladimir Putin. Yevgeny Prigozhin – who some have tipped to be Putin’s likely replacement should he be removed from the Kremlin – will be
A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers. “This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an oceanic rift,” Christopher Moore, a
Jeff Woodke, an American aid worker who has been held hostage in Africa since 2016, has been freed Monday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced. Sullivan tweeted that he is “gratified & relieved to see the release of U.S. hostage Jeff Woodke after
Jeffrey Woodke, an American aid worker who has been held hostage in Africa since 2016, has been freed Monday, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced. Sullivan tweeted that he is “gratified & relieved to see the release of U.S. hostage Jeff Woodke after
After four days of destructive wind and rain, local communities and relief workers are now confronting the aftermath of Cyclone Freddy which has killed more than 250 people and displaced tens of thousands of others across Malawi and Mozambique and may still
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday will travel to Ethiopia and then Niger later in the week as the Biden administration looks to bolster relations with African partners to counter top adversaries like China and Russia from expanding ties on the
Comment on this story Comment LOSITETI, Kenya — The wind picked up, and Jill Biden was suddenly enveloped in a cloud of red dirt, the kind that’s impossible to get out of your clothes, the kind that looks like rusty blood when