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Most world heritage sites at risk of drought or flooding
Almost three quarters of the globe's cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN's cultural agency said. As a result of rising temperatures, extreme weather events including hurricanes, droughts,...

Saudi Heritage Commission Launches Campaign to Highlight Importance of Archaeological Preservation
Almost three quarters of the globe's cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN's cultural agency said on Tuesday. As a result of rising temperatures, extreme weather events including hurricanes,...

UN: Most World Heritage Sites at Risk of Drought or Flooding
Almost three quarters of the globe's cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened by too little or too much water, the UN's cultural agency said on Tuesday. As a result of rising temperatures, extreme weather events including hurricanes,...

From darkness to light: Malawi’s journey up the energy ladder
Tropical Cyclone Ana roared across the country with unprecedented violence, but its most devastating blow struck at the heart of Malawi’s power grid. In a single, catastrophic moment, the massive Kapichira Hydropower Station, supplier of nearly a...

An Open Letter to the ECOWAS Chairman: On the Ongoing Repres...
Your Excellency, Before I begin this letter, permit me a moment of mourning. Oh sons of courage, daughters of resistance — your names echo in the winds of Lomé. You rose not with guns, but with grit — not with hatred, but with hope. Now your blood...

President Felix Tshisekedi extols transformative Kolwezi Governor
GIDEON NYENDWA PRESIDENT Félix Tshisekedi has praised the transformative leadership of Governor Marie Thérèse Masuka Saini following the inauguration of the new modular terminal at Kolwezi International Airport, a landmark infrastructure project...

Women’s AFCON: Queens out to redeem image
Ghana’s Black Queens head into the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Morocco with a burning desire to restore pride, but their mission to reclaim their place among the continent’s elite could end in disappointment unless head coach...
WE’LL BRUISE MOROCCO – HÄUPTLE
By BARNABAS ZULU COPPER Queens head coach Nora Häuptle has declared her team is mentally and physically prepared to “hunt” hosts Morocco when the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) 2024 kicks off in a week’s time. Speaking...

Third edition of Expo-Cabinda starts next week with 150 exhibitors
Under the motto "Cabinda, a land to live and invest", this event, considered the largest economic and business event in the province, will take place between 11 and 14 July at the Tafe Municipal Stadium. According to a statement from the...

Women's AFCON: Teams land in Morocco as tournament nears kic...
Africa’s top women’s football nations have begun arriving in Morocco ahead of the highly anticipated TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), with defending champions South Africa among the first to pitch camp. The tournament,...

Digital ID for people with disabilities advance in S. Korea, Thailand
Homepage > News > Business > Digital ID for people with disabilities advance in S. Korea, Thailand Digital ID mobile apps are gathering steam in South Korea and Thailand amid a race by technology firms to uncover new utilities for people with...

HH is a capable economic driver – Tambatamba
MINISTER of Labour and Social Security Brenda Tambatamba says workers and employers in the country are in a ship with a capable economic driver, President Hakainde Hichilema. Speaking during the Tripartite Consultative Labour Council meeting,...
My journey through Graphic - Edmund Smith Asante writes (Part 11)
The AU Commission Chairperson, Nkosana Zuma, also told the 4th EU-Africa summit that Africa was looking at transformative policies that would enable it to add value to its material resources, “so that we can grow trade in manufactured goods, in...

Last-minute court order halts former president’s burial in South Africa
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The Best Films of 2025 … So Far
As A.I. has become ubiquitous and its creators’ contempt for human-made art has grown louder, questions around what it means to be human in a tech-dominated world have taken on more existentially weighty dimensions. Certainly films have plumbed...

Online Fraud Relies on a Horrifying Slave Labor Complex
This is an extract from Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds, now available from Verso Books. “I don’t trust you. You are one of them, right? You all just want to sell me like some animal.” This was the first message a young...

From Goma to Cape Town, the young Congolese athlete pedalling for peace
Miguel Masaisai, a 23-year-old athlete from Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, is cycling 6,000 kilometres from his hometown to Cape Town in South Africa, in a bid to promote peace and unity in his troubled country. He talks to RFI about his...

‘One day at a time’ — Banyana Banyana sharpen focus on journey to defend Wafcon title
Banyana Banyana are in uncharted territory. For the first time they are heading to a major tournament as defending champions. It is pressure with which the South Africans are not acquainted, but they are embracing it as they continue to carve out...

RRB Technician Recruitment 2025: From eligibility to documents required, important things to know before applying
RRB Technician Recruitment 2025: Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) began the online registration process for Technician Grade-I Signal and various categories of Technician Grade-III recruitment, 2025. Candidates who are willing to apply for the...

Adrian Gardiner: The visionary who pioneered rewilding at reserves in the Eastern Cape, isn’t done yet
Linda van Tilburg (00:00.01) Few people have the vision and determination to transform desolate land into thriving ecosystem, but Adrian Gardiner is one of them. He has just released a book written by Dean Allen on his journey of rewilding the...