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A U.N. rescue team confirmed there were no survivors among the 11 crew and military personnel on the plane, a Casa-212, when it went down near the town of Fonds-Verrettes, near the border with the Dominican Republic.
The dead were Uruguayans and...
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The only piece of furniture that survived the most recent flood in Fatou Dione’s house is her bed. It’s propped up on cinderblocks and hovers just above the water lapping at the walls of her bedroom.
The water stands a foot deep throughout...
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that “significant” rainfall has lashed the region this year.
“Since June, the rainy season has been more significant,...
A white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada after an immigration board ruled he faces persecution if he is returned to his native country.
Brandon Huntley, 31, from Cape Town, said he had been stabbed three times by black...
Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.
Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the...
South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers Monday, a proud moment in a nation where government denial, neglect and unscientific responses have helped fuel the world’s worst AIDS crisis.
After a...
From miles away great plumes of black acrid smoke mark the site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
As one edges closer to the world’s fastest-growing e-waste dumping site at Agbogbloshie, it is...
By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food security, warns a new study.
Growing seasons throughout nearly all of Africa in 2050...
At least 61 prospectors have been found dead in an abandoned gold mine, police said Tuesday, but the tragedy was unlikely to deter others from seeking riches in South Africa’s hazardous network of tunnels and shafts.
The bodies were found by...
Fifty-five whales that beached themselves in South Africa have died or been euthanized after efforts to save them were not successful.
South African marine authorities shot about 40 of the whales on Saturday, while the rest died of exhaustion and...
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