Tanzania

By Harry van Versendaal

Hubert Sauper and Alexandru Solomon are but a couple of the filmmakers heading to this year's Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF), according to organizers as they unveiled the lineup of tributes to be screened at the annual international festival in the northern port city, this year from March 13 to 22.

Nineteen-year-old Asl? Alk?? returned home Feb. 20 after becoming the first Turkish woman to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain.
 
Alk??, a member of Ku?adas? Mountaineering and Nature Sports Association in the western Turkish province of Ayd?n, took six days to accomplish the mission, which ended on Feb. 18.
      

Short films will be screened simultaneously in more than 200 cities and more than 20 countries around the world, including Turkey, during the Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival Packing a punch into just half a minute, ultra-short films aren't coming to a theater near you, but somewhere even closer: Everywhere in the urban space.

A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in Africa has died days before he was to stand trial in New York A Libyan accused over the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa died on Jan. 2, days before he was to stand trial in New York, his lawyer said.

Ebola unlikely cause of death of British man in Macedonia

SKOPJE -- It is unlikely that the cause of death of a British citizen who died in Skopje on Thursday was Ebola, reports said today.

The 58-year-old most likely died of complications caused by alcohol poisoning, the Macedonian media said on Friday.

Ebola screening at Serbian airports "not rigorous"

BELGRADE -- The World Health Organization has recently said that Europe is "very well prepared" for a possible Ebola outbreak.

However, experiences of travelers arriving from Africa show that airport checks are "not very rigorous."

Poachers slaughtering Africa's elephants and rhinos with impunity are often shielded from police by powerful connections, but a group of conservationists has turned to the anonymity of tip-offs to try to stem the killing.

Africans see jobs, education and security as their biggest areas of concern, according to a poll on Aug. 4 conducted by ONE, the anti-poverty campaign co-founded by rockers Bono and Bob Geldof.
   

Cyprus’s central bank has suspended efforts to find a buyer for branches of a Tanzania-based bank, pending the outcome of legal action seeking to block the sale, it said on Friday.

Cypriot regulators seized control of two branches of the FBME bank in July, after a department of the US Treasury alleged the bank engaged in money laundering.

Tanzania’s central bank said on Friday it had taken over the management of a bank accused by the US government of large-scale money laundering.