꼬리표: African
South African mother describes throwing baby from burning building – video
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A young mother from Durban has described throwing her two-year-old daughter from a burning building. Naledi Manyoni said she had no choice but to release her grip on her daughter and hope that she was caught by people...
Circle of life: rebuilding a dramatic South African home
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Renovating an important building comes with a responsibility to honour the past without compromising one’s own vision for it. Homeowners Michael and Claire Cobbledick couldn’t resist the 1970s house designed by a reno...
South African scientists explore vaccines’ effectiveness against Omicron
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Scientists in South Africa have begun crucial work to assess how well Covid vaccines hold up against the Omicron variant that has been detected in more than a dozen countries since it was formally reported last week. ...
Traces of methanol found in teenagers who died at South African nightclub
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Investigators have found traces of the toxic chemical methanol in the bodies of 21 teenagers who died in a nightclub in South Africa last month. The tragedy at the Enyobeni tavern in the poor Scenery Park township in ...
‘All very uncertain’: Lambeth reacts to South African Covid variant cluster
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As Britain opens up its pubs, hairdressers, and gyms, optimism is in the air. But the news that a significant cluster of the South African coronavirus variant has been found in south London has cast a cloud over the r...
Man due in court after fire ravages South African parliament
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A man is due to appear in court on Tuesday after a massive fire tore through South Africa’s national assembly building. An investigation has been opened into the blaze that started at about 3am on Sunday in the parlia...
‘Things are changing and it’s optimistic’: a celebration of contemporary African art
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“Oftentimes, we have to poke history, 처럼, ‘You are sleeping. What is going on? Wake! Wake up!’” said Victor Ehikhamenor, a Nigerian multidisciplinary artist, to the Guardian. His body of work, which encompasses lar...
East African leaders propose deploying regional force to help DRC
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East African heads of state have gathered for a closed-doors meeting in Kenya to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the DRC military has been fighti...
Omicron may cause more Covid reinfections, say South African experts
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The Omicron variant of Covid-19 appears to be reinfecting people at a higher rate than previous strains, experts in South Africa have said, as public health officials and scientists from around the world closely monit...
Why ‘Farmgate’ threatens Cyril Ramaphosa’s bid to clean up South African politics
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It has been a busy week for Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s affable president. He has called on his 60 million countrymen to remember the legacy of Nelson Mandela, spoken to an investment forum held in the “richest sq...
The Gambia becomes second African state to end trachoma
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The Gambia has become the second country in Africa to eliminate trachoma, one of the leading causes of blindness. The achievement, announced by the World Health Organization on Tuesday, came after decades of work on t...
South African parliament fire suspect charged with terrorism offences
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A man suspected of starting a fire that gutted South Africa’s parliament appeared in court for a second time to face a new charge of terrorism, in addition to robbery and arson charges. Zandile Christmas Mafe, 49, was...
Ex-South African leader Jacob Zuma leaves prison due to ill health
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Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, has been released from prison on grounds of ill health after serving less than two months of a 15-month prison sentence for contempt of court. Zuma, who was ousted in ...
East African leaders propose deploying regional force to help DRC
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East African heads of state have gathered for a closed-doors meeting in Kenya to discuss the deteriorating security situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the DRC military has been fighti...
Omicron driving record rate of Covid infection in South African province
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The pace of Covid infections in the South African province of Gauteng is outstripping anything seen in previous waves, and officials say Omicron is now the dominant variant. Angelique Coetzee, the chair of the South A...
African nations expected to make case for big rise in fossil fuel output
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Leaders of African countries are likely to use the next UN climate summit in November to push for massive new investment in fossil fuels in Africa, according to documents seen by the Guardian. New exploration for gas,...