Win-or-Go-Home: Ivory Coast pays price for complacency as Norway’s Halaand deals them World Cup sucker punch
Antonio Nusa scored with a curling kick for Norway, which is in its fourth World Cup and will next play five-time champion Brazil in the round of 16 on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa mobilises over 750,000 volunteers for clean-up mountains of garbage in the city
Launching this year’s city-wide clean-up campaign recently, Adanech Abiebie, mayor of Addis Ababa City, said the campaign is part of the city government’s commitment to making Addis Ababa more comfortable and attractive for both residents and local and foreign tourists.
Xenophobia: Landlords kick out foreign tenants as South African cities are shuttered by anti-migrant protests
The campaign group March and March, run by a former radio presenter behind the latest protests, denies encouraging violence and says it cannot be held responsible for spontaneous acts of anger by South Africans towards undocumented migrants.
Terrified Malawians, Zimbabweans flee South Africa following widespread protests against foreign workers
The South African police have deployed hundreds of officers in cities including Johannesburg in Gauteng province and Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province to prepare for potential violence.
Official: Kenya turns to menstrual economy for accelerated industrial growth, arrest period poverty
Embu Woman Representative Pamela Njeru said period poverty remains a major barrier to education, health and economic empowerment for women and girls, urging stakeholders to shift from charity-based interventions to sustainable investments in the menstrual economy.
From ‘hand of God’ to ‘leg of God’: How Morocco bundled the Netherlands out of World Cup in penalty shootout
Earlier in the shootout with Morocco trailing 1-0, Verbruggen appeared to have stopped an attempt by Soufiane Rahimi, but the goalkeeper couldn’t secure the ball and deflected it over the line with the back of his leg.
KenGen launches inaugural sustainability report and commits to 5,500 megawatts of clean energy capacity by 2034
KenGen Sustainability Manager Elizabeth Mwangi said the report reflects the company’s commitment to creating shared value for the communities it serves, noting that sustainability has become embedded across all its operations.
Oil stocks in US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fall by 5.5 million to lowest level since 1983
Stocks of crude oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell by 5.5 million barrels to 325.7 million barrels, the lowest level since May 1983, according to data from the Department of Energy. The drawdowns are a part of a US agreement to release 172 million barrels from the facility...
Landlocked Rwanda says it has added Kenya to its oil import alternative routes to ensure steady flows and predictability
Landlocked Rwanda imports all its petroleum products overland through two main ports, Dar as Salaam in Tanzania and Mombasa in Kenya.
World Cup: Rusting in German machine persists as Paraguay tosses out the Bavarians in sudden-death penalty shootout
Paraguay had appeared in five previous knockout games but failed to score in each. It had advanced only once, winning on penalty kicks against Japan in the round of 16 at the 2010 tournament in South Africa. It fell that year to eventual champion Spain in the quarterfinals.
- 1
- 2
