Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied preached freedom of thought at a book fair on Friday, shortly before authorities confiscated a book comparing him to Frankenstein, its author and publisher said. “It is important to liberate thinking because we cannot accomplish anything with rigid thoughts,” Saied told reporters ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt has evacuated more than 5,300 citizens from conflict-torn Sudan since fighting broke out on April 15. In a written statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the number of Egyptians evacuated from Sudan had reached 5,327, with around 2,600 evacuated on Thursday. A total of 23 planes took off from Egypt for [&hell...
ANKARA (AA) – France has vowed to continue efforts to expel irregular migrants from the island of Mayotte, one of its offshore territories in the Indian Ocean. “There is no date, and we will leave the number of police officers and gendarmes necessary for Mayotte to once again be a classic and magnificent island,” Interior [&h...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – At least 20,000 people have taken refuge in eastern Chad since clashes erupted in neighboring Sudan some two weeks ago, according to International Organization for Migration (IOM). “Most of the people who came to Chad need urgent humanitarian needs, such as food, water and accommodation,” IOM mission chief in ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Sudan Army has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of opening fire on a Turkish plane in the north of the capital Khartoum. The army said in a statement that a Turkish C-130 military plane was hit by RSF fire while preparing to land at Wadi Seidna airport, causing fuel […]
KAYSERI, Ankara (AA) – A Turkish military plane evacuating citizens from Sudan landed safely at an airport despite gunfire, Türkiye’s national defense minister confirmed. “As part of plans to evacuate our citizens, one of our C-130 aircraft landed at Wadi Seidna Airport, north of (the capital) Khartoum. There was gunfire from...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of 210 irregular migrants who drowned off the country’s coast last week, said a statement issued by the country’s gendarmerie force on Friday. Tunisian National Guard spokesman Hosam Eddin Al-Jababli said in a statement that “210 bodies of irregular migrants...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s parliament approved on Friday deploying troops in Niger to take part in a new EU-led military training mission. A total of 531 German lawmakers, mostly from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left liberal coalition government, voted in favor of the mission, while 102 lawmakers voted against it, and five lawmakers abs...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN said on Friday that it is “extremely frustrating” to see the fighting going on despite the ceasefire in Sudan. Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group agreed to extend the humanitarian truce for 72 more hours starting from the end of the previous truce, but violenc...
Longoni, France (AFP): French authorities on Thursday razed an informal settlement on the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte after overnight unrest sparked by government plans to clear slums and send illegal migrants back to the neighbouring Comoros. Operation Wuambushu (“Take Back” in the local language) has in recent days triggered c...
