Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. Rescue operations intensified Tuesday as a 72-hour ceasefire took effect, but gunfire still rang out in the capital Khartoum. Some evac...
Paris, France (AFP): France has evacuated 538 people from Sudan, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday, as a ceasefire came into force after 10 days of urban combat. French citizens made up 209 of the total number of evacuees, Macron said at the start of a defence council at the Elysee palace. Macron also said that […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Foreign nations pushed on Monday with evacuations of their citizens from chaos-torn Sudan which, the UN chief warned, is “on the edge of the abyss” after 10 days of brutal fighting between rival forces. As army and paramilitary troops again clashed in Khartoum and across the country, terrified Sudanese have s...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country. Landlocked and in the heart of West Africa’s Sahel, the country is one of the w...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Ten civilians and three soldiers were killed and 88 militants “neutralised” in multiple incidents across Mali Saturday, the government said, in a wave of bloodshed it described as a resurgence of “terrorist incidents”. Early Saturday morning, suspected militants attacked the Sevare airport area in th...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): US troops swooped in on helicopters to evacuate embassy staff from Sudan’s battle-torn capital, President Joe Biden said Sunday, as other nations sought to help their citizens flee deadly fighting between rival generals. France and Turkey on Sunday also launched evacuation operations from the chaos-torn northeast A...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting in Sudan’s capital entered a second week Saturday as crackling gunfire shattered a temporary truce, the latest battles between forces of rival generals that have already left hundreds dead and thousands wounded. Overnight, the heavy explosions that had previously rocked the city in recent days had subsided...
Berlin, Germany (AFP): German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned on Friday against Tunisia backtracking on the fundamentals of its democracy, after the arrest of opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi this week. Baerbock told reporters that Berlin viewed Ghannouchi’s arrest “with the greatest concern” and cautioned that t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Amid political divisions, Libyans celebrated Eid al-Fitr in the country’s east on Friday and in areas under the control of the Tripoli-based government on Saturday. The Tripoli-based religious Fatwa Council announced that the Muslim holiday falls on Saturday as the Shawwal crescent moon was not sighted. The General ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has expressed concern over the arrest of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party leader Rached Ghannouchi and said a democratic transition process based on a broad consensus involving all segments of society can be “successful” in Tunisia. About the arrest of Ghannouchi, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that such ac...
