Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, hinting that his political ambitions remained undimmed.. Ble Goude is the last major pro-Gbagbo figure from the post-electoral crisis to return to Ivory Coast.
Brand new homes intended for Equatorial Guinea's lower-income families have cropped up across the capital Malabo, but shanty town residents say they are going to the middle class and wealthy instead.. Obiang planned to provide enough housing to raise Malabo's shanty towns, including Nubili, a mass of tin-roofed shacks along narrow paths that is home to thousands of families in the heart of the city.
Ninety years ago, millions perished in Ukraine in a manmade famine under Joseph Stalin that many in the country call genocide.. Ukraine officially considers it a "genocide" along with a number of Western countries, a label that Moscow vehemently rejects.
Charles Ble Goude, a key figure in post-electoral violence in Ivory Coast 11 years ago, returned to the country Saturday for the first time in more than eight years, an AFP reporter said. . Wearing a suit and tie, the 50-year-old Ble Goude landed at the airport in the capital Abidjan after flying in on a commercial flight from neighbouring Ghana, according to an AFP reporter on the scene.
One woman died and other people were still missing Saturday after heavy rains caused a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia, a local official said.. The devastation in Ischia came just weeks after 11 people died in heavy rain and flooding in central eastern Italy. ar/imm
Argentina face a battle to stay alive at the World Cup on Saturday, with Lionel Messi and his teammates preparing to take on Mexico in a match they cannot afford to lose.. The surprising Saudis have a chance to prove they are no flash in the pan when they face Poland and Robert Lewandowski, the prolific striker who is still looking for the first World Cup goal of his career.
The union representing UK firefighters said Saturday it was "sceptical" London Fire Brigade (LFB) leaders would implement reforms after an independent review concluded the service was institutionally misogynistic and racist.. Gareth Cook, its regional organiser for London, said the union was "committed to working to address these serious concerns" but that "we remain sceptical about the changes senior leaders will implement with regards to their own behaviours".
As the temperatures plunge in eastern Ukraine, Sergiy Khmil says he has little choice but to use the stacks of ammunition boxes left by the retreating Russians forces as firewood this winter.. With his home largely destroyed by shelling, Khmil is still hard at work converting his summer kitchen into impromptu winter lodging -- now filled with blankets, ammunition crates and a furnace pieced together from Russian shell casings.
The elegant house overlooking Amsterdam's iconic Vondelpark would fit in nicely with its neighbouring dwellings, were it not for the huge anti-war banners draped down the outside.. In the meantime, they have promised to use the Russian tycoon's mansion to organise political and social events -- to support anti-war protesters and to support people "left behind by war or by capitalism". jcp/dk/jhe/jj
In one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, a vulnerable crocodile species is thriving despite living in waters that have become a sewer for Costa Rica's capital, experts say.. "The Tarcoles River is the most polluted river in Costa Rica, and one of the most contaminated in Central America.
