Issued on: 14/09/2023 – 14:41Modified: 14/09/2023 – 14:47 02:24 © France 24 It’s been 2 weeks since the military seized power in Gabon, toppling President Ali Bongo who was seeking a 3rd term in office, after his father Omar Bongo ruled the central African country for nearly 42 years. Opponents of the Bongos have long denounced the dynasty for plundering public funds and embezzling huge sums of money for their personal gain, at the expense of public services and infrastructure. FRANCE 24’s reporters Catherine Norris-Trent, Cyril Payen and Mayssa Awad witnessed the neglect in Gabon’s capital city. Read more on…
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Villagers in some of the most isolated areas hit by Morocco’s earthquake were still living in makeshift tents and relying on donkeys to bring vital supplies on Thursday as they waited for state aid to reach them nearly a week after the disaster. Issued on: 15/09/2023 – 03:24 3 min The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the High Atlas Mountains late on Sept. 8 killed 2,946 people and injured 5,674, according to the latest official figures, making it Morocco’s deadliest since 1960 and most powerful since at least 1900.While orderly camps of large, government-issued tents and military field hospitals have sprung up…
Issued on: 14/09/2023 – 14:50Modified: 14/09/2023 – 14:54 03:54 © France 24 The United Nations said Thursday that most of the thousands of deaths in Libya’s flood disaster could have been averted if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly. FRANCE 24’s Catherine Norris-Trent tells us more. Read more on related topics:
Home » Spanish Learning Resources » Reading » Spanish Stories with English Translation: 10 Stories and Resources to Find Many More If you’re a voracious reader who’s learning Spanish, chances are you’ve already discovered the beauty of using Spanish literature for language practice. Reading in Spanish can help you improve your grammar and sentence structure and it can introduce you to a wide variety of vocabulary words. In other words, reading Spanish-language texts is a great way to fast-track your Spanish fluency. The stories and resources in this article solve these problems. Here, you’ll find four stories and six free…
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival Adelaide 2023 The 2023 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival presented by Palace, Australia’s pre-eminent event celebrating the culture and cinema of Italy, returns this Spring. The Festival promises to whisk audiences straight to Italy featuring an eclectic mix of contemporary Italian auteurs, documentaries, a retrospective focus on much-loved Italian cinema legend Massimo Troisi and more, all timed perfectly to celebrate the start of spring. CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS The festival is happy to present the following family-friendly film for its lineup this year: Supernova (NOI ANNI LUCE) Suitable for: All Ages Two young rising…
Days after the catastrophic flood in northeastern Libya killed thousands of people, the city of Derna remains largely cut off from the outside world. The New York Times reached residents by phone who described dire conditions and sent videos capturing the toll of the destruction.
Prioritizing U.S. national security interests over human rights, the Biden administration has approved $235 million in military aid for Egypt that it had withheld for the past two years because of the country’s repressive policies.The decision means that the United States will withhold just a small fraction — $85 million — of the $1.3 billion in military aid earmarked annually for Egypt. It also reflects a decision by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and other officials in the administration that America’s relationship with the most populous country in the region is too important to risk fracturing despite pleas from…
In tonight’s edition: International aid efforts intensify as death toll in flooded Libya soars to over 11,000 killed. The heavy rains burst two upstream dams late Sunday and has left apocalyptic scenes in the city of Derna. Isolated Morocco earthquake survivors feel forgotten by state as they await help and Nigeria power grid collapse causes nationwide blackouts.
Issued on: 14/09/2023 – 17:47Modified: 14/09/2023 – 17:51 01:56 Authorities in the Libyan city of Derna have been buring the dead in mass graves. The official death toll stands at over 5 thousand, but that number is expected to rise substantially with over 9 thousand people still missing. UN agencies meanwhile say most of the deaths in Libya could have been avoided if early warning and emergency management systems had functioned properly. FRANCE 24’s Oliver Farry reports. Read more on related topics:
Essaadia Boukdir stumbled through a valley of death in the throes of labor. Her husband, Brahim Bel Haj, held her up on one side. A cousin supported her on the other.She worried her baby would die, as so many of her neighbors had only two days earlier, when an earthquake struck high up in a valley on the Atlas Mountains on Friday, cracking concrete, hurling giant boulders down the rocky slopes and burying people in their mud-brick and rock homes.The earthquake, the most powerful to strike Morocco in more than a century, killed more than 2,900 people, most of them…