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Perhaps the biggest takeaway from successive COP failures is that we need to look beyond UN processes for really ambitious solutions.

Over 20 countries are keen to join the recently expanded BRICS group, having either applied for membership or expressed an interest.

Ghana’s shock defeat to Cape Verde has further dimmed fans’ hopes of ending a trophy drought that dates back to 1982.

The president of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani, is a former coup leader who later became a civilian ruler, the chairman of the African Union and another African leader who changed the constitution to allow him to stand for an extra term.

The president of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani, is a former coup leader who later became a civilian ruler, the chairman of the African Union and another African leader who changed the constitution to allow him to stand for an extra term.Despite the controversy about his dictatorial past and his increasingly hardline elected rule, Assoumani was chosen last year to serve a one-year term as the chairman of the African Union, which expires in February.  

Former coup leader Azali Assoumani won re-election Tuesday in the first round of an already disputed presidential vote in the Comoros, an Indian Ocean island chain, dismissing a low turnout and allegations of fraud.

Leaving power "was a mistake" not to be repeated, Assoumani once told a diplomat in the capital Moroni

Former coup leader Azali Assoumani won re-election Tuesday in the first round of an already disputed presidential vote in the Comoros, an Indian Ocean island chain, dismissing a low turnout and allegations of fraud.In 2002 he stepped down as military ruler and won the presidential election for the newly constituted Union of Comoros, made up of three semi-autonomous islands, each with its own separate leadership.

From JEAN KASSONGO in Kinshasa, DRC DRC Bureau KINSHASA, (CAJ News) - THE rejection of the presidential election result by the main opposition candidates adds a new dimension to the crises plaguing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is also an addition to the woes charactersing Africa's southern bloc that is experiencing a surge

To mark the 15th anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson, we recount the tales of heroic pilots who really earned their hefty salaries.