Tag: Africa
Pritzker Architecture Prize awarded to Paris-based duo
<p>The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honor, has been awarded to the Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for “prioritizing the...
Ex-Mali coup leader won’t stand trial for 2012 killings
BAMAKO, Mali — The man who overthrew Mali’s president in 2012, former Gen. Amadou Haya Sanogo, will no longer stand trial on charges he...
Somalia starts first inoculations with AstraZeneca vaccines
<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia launched COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday with the inoculation of the health minister, who received the jab publicly to reassure the nation...
3 teachers abducted in latest Nigeria school kidnapping
LAGOS, Nigeria — Gunmen abducted three teachers from a primary school in Nigeria’s northwest on Monday, four days after several dozen other students from...
McLaughlin, nun who exposed abuses in Rhodesia, dies at 79
<p>JOHANNESBURG — Sister Janice McLaughlin, a Maryknoll Sisters nun who was jailed and later deported by white minority-ruled Rhodesia for exposing human rights abuses,...
Vice President urges calm as Tanzania’s leader still unseen
NAIROBI, Kenya — As Tanzania's president has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, the East African country's vice president on...
African court orders release of ally of Maduro wanted by US
MIAMI — A regional court in West Africa has ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan businessman close to President Nicolas Maduro, finding that...
Children among victims of jihadi rebels in Mozambique
JOHANNESBURG — Northern Mozambique's humanitarian crisis is growing rapidly, with nearly 670,000 people displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in Cabo Delgado province, international...
Alleged ex-Gambia special unit member arrested in Germany
BERLIN — An alleged former driver for a special armed unit under the Gambia's former dictator was arrested in Germany on Tuesday on suspicion...
Pritzker Architecture Prize awarded to Paris-based duo
The Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honor, has been awarded to the Paris-based duo of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal for “prioritizing the...