DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The Malian government has decided to suspend all military and police contingent rotations of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Rotations that have already been announced or are scheduled will also be affected by the suspension. The suspension will last till a f...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned Thursday of a “harsh and regrettable” response, hours after US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid issued a joint declaration against Iran. Speaking at a public meeting in the western city of Kermanshah, Raisi said any “mistake” on th...
JERUSALEM (AA) – US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid have signed a joint declaration to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. “We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” Biden told a joint press conference following the signing of the “Jerusalem Declaration” with Lapid. The declaration includes ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The head of Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that efforts by US President Joe Biden to integrate Israel into the Middle East region are doomed to fail. “Attempts by the US administration to re-design the region in order to integrate the occupying entity [Israel] in the region […] are [&h...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Scores of Palestinians have staged a protest against the upcoming visit by US President Joe Biden to the Israel-occupied West Bank. Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday on his first visit since he become president, expressing deep solidarity with the Zionist state. He is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Ma...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP): Fires burning for days at Beirut’s port, severely damaged in 2020 by an enormous explosion, have reignited trauma among Lebanese gearing up to mark the deadly blast’s anniversary. On August 4, Lebanon will mark two years since the explosion that killed more than 200 people. It was caused by a stockpil...
Tehran, Iran – (AFP): Iran warned the United States and its allies against undermining regional security after US President Joe Biden signed Thursday a security pact with Israel during a visit to the Jewish state. “I tell the Americans and their regional allies that the Iranian nation will not accept any crisis or insecurity in [&h...
Banjul, Gambia – (AFP) A Gambian court on Wednesday sentenced five former members of the intelligence service to death for the murder of a political activist during the rule of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh. High Court Justice Kumba Sillah-Camara pronounced the sentence against the former head of the National Intelligence Agency, Yankuba Badj...
Rabat, Morocco – (AFP) At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely “suffocated”, Morocco’s state-backed CNDH rights group said on Wednesday. The death toll after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier on June 24 was the worst ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The presidents of Chad and Niger pledged Wednesday to revive the G5 Sahel military grouping after Mali’s exit from the West African force. Niger’s Mohamed Bazoum and his counterpart Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said this at a joint press conference following their meeting in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena. The ann...
