Zogbodomé (Benin) (AFP) – The Hlanzoun riparian swamp forest in southern Benin, one of the last of its kind in the country, is home to unparallelled flora and fauna. Yet according to ecologists its unique biodiversity is under threat from poaching, agriculture and ever-increasing human exploitation.
Leipzig (Germany) (AFP) – He was once a minister in Afghanistan but quit, fed up with the corruption. Now in Germany, Sayed Sadaat is making a living delivering meals on his bicycle. Working six hours on weekdays and ten hours a day on the weekend, Sadaat shuttles pizzas and other orders to customers, clad in his distinctive orange uniform and large square backpack.
Leipzig (Germany) (AFP) – He was once a minister in Afghanistan but quit, fed up with the corruption. Now in Germany, Sayed Sadaat is making a living delivering meals on his bicycle. Working six hours on weekdays and ten hours a day on the weekend, Sadaat shuttles pizzas and other orders to customers, clad in his distinctive orange uniform and large square backpack.
The Hlanzoun riparian swamp forest in southern Benin, one of the last of its kind in the country, is home to unparallelled flora and fauna. Yet according to ecologists its unique biodiversity is under threat from poaching, agriculture and ever-increasing human exploitation.
CNN's Nadia Romero surveys the damage Hurricane Ida left behind in New Orleans.
Peer-to-peer digital currency platform, Paxful, says with over 33 per cent of its users in Africa, digital currency trade volumes in Africa to date is over $2.2 billion.
Aristide Takoukam Kamla enlists help from tiny insects to clear Lake Ossa of an invasive aquatic fern.
Sun International has managed to narrow its headline loss by 86 per cent despite the hotel industry remaining under pressure due to Covid-19 restrictions.
New Orleans (AFP) – Hurricane Ida "continues to rage and ravage everything it comes in contact with" after it made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, US President Joe Biden says during a visit to the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington.
New Orleans (AFP) – Hurricane Ida “continues to rage and ravage everything it comes in contact with” after it made landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, US President Joe Biden says during a visit to the headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington. Powerful Hurricane Ida has battered the southern US state of Louisiana and plunged New Orleans into darkness, leaving at least one person dead 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.
Footage obtained by CNN shows the car believed to have been used to launch a rocket attack near Kabul airport in Afghanistan. As many as five rockets were fired at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, a US official told CNN. The official said the rockets aimed at the airport were likely launched by ISIS-K, but cautioned it was too early to know for sure.
The politicization of novel coronavirus origin-tracing is nothing but a manifestation of international political power play by the United States, said a Zambian expert of international politics in a recent interview with the China Central Television (CCTV).
