Niamey, Niger (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has vowed to broaden support for the violence-wracked Sahel beyond the realm of security, pitching the United States as a better partner than Russia, which has been expanding its footprint in the region. Speaking to AFP on the highest-level visit ever by a US official to […]
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Ten million children living in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, twice as many as in 2020 due to intensifying conflicts, UNICEF warned Friday. “Armed conflict is increasingly affecting children, who are victims of intensified military clashes or targeted by non-state...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is scheduled to visit Egypt on Saturday upon an invitation by his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, Turkish authorities said on Friday. According to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Cavusoglu and Shoukry will discuss all aspects of bilateral relations during the landma...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday offered new aid as he threw his support behind Niger on a rare visit, holding up the Western military partner and new democracy as a model in a region where Russia is making inroads. Blinken is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the […]
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Moroccan authorities have charged eight suspected collaborators of French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier in a sexual abuse and trafficking case, lawyers for the complainants said Thursday. Bouthier, 76 and one of France’s richest men, is being held in Paris on suspicion of child rape and trafficking. The case in ...
JOHANNESBURG / BLANTYRE, Malawi (AA) – The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Southern Africa has surpassed 300, with Malawi recording the highest number of casualties. At least 225 people have been killed in Malawi and 707 others injured, according to authorities. Mozambique has reported at least 53 deaths in the Zambezia provin...
VIENNA (AA) – Approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in Libya has gone missing, UN nuclear inspectors said. Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the organization’s member states that inspectors reported that 10 drums containing uranium ore concentrate have gone missing. “The l...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Thousands of sub-Saharan African students in Tunisia are still fearful after a surge of racist attacks following comments by President Kais Saied against illegal immigration, and are seeking concrete steps to protect them. The violence erupted after Saied blamed “hordes of illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Thousands of supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rallied in Dakar on Tuesday as the country prepares for elections in less than a year. Tensions are rising ahead of the vote in a country seen as a democratic mainstay in the region, amid speculation that President Macky Sall could bypass the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Morocco on Tuesday joined Spain and Portugal to bid for hosting the 2030 FIFA World Cup. “I would like to announce, before this assembly, that the Kingdom of Morocco has decided, together with Spain and Portugal, to present a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup,” Morocco’s King Mohammed VI said [&h...
