MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s election commission has postponed the March 11 election for state governors, the country’s election commission said. “The commission has taken the difficult but necessary decision to reschedule the governorship and state House of Assembly elections which will now take place on Saturday 18th March...
ANKARA (AA/AFP) – US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has hailed Egypt’s role in easing tensions between Israel and Palestinians. Austin met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday as part of a regional tour that also included Jordan. Egyptian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Mohamed Zaki attended the meeting. ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan has said talks are underway on Syria’s return to the Arab League. “There is a consensus in the Arab world that the situation in Syria is not acceptable,” bin Farhan said in an interview with Saudi-run Al Arabiya television. “There is a dialogue on the […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Thirteen people from al-Shabaab and ISIS were executed by firing squads in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous state of Puntland on Wednesday. The executions ordered by a military court took place around 8 a.m. local time in the cities of Galkayo, Garowe and the state’s commercial capital of Bosaso, simultane...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s main opposition bloc on Wednesday called for the release of political prisoners amid a deep crisis in the North African country. Supporters of the National Salvation Front (NSF) staged a protest in the capital Tunis to demand the release of critics of policies of President Kais Saied. Protesters held pictures [&...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): An influential organisation of religious leaders in Mali on Tuesday called on its followers to reject a new constitution being drawn up under the country’s junta leadership maintaining the principle of secularism. The proposal to change Mali’s constitution aims to enable the military-run West African nation to r...
Qalyub, Egypt (AFP): Two people were killed and several others injured Tuesday in a train accident north of Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said after the country’s latest rail tragedy. A ministry statement said there were “two dead in the train accident at Qalyub, while the injured are in a stable condition.” An earlier...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The African Union has postponed a conference that was scheduled to take place in Tunisia this month amid mounting criticism of a government crackdown on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. “The Pan-African Network Conference on Fighting Illicit Financial Flows in Africa that was scheduled to convene in Tunisia from 15-1...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (AFP): Four insurgents escaped from prison in Mauritania after a shootout left two guards dead, the interior ministry said Monday, a rare event in a nation spared the insurgency sweeping through the Sahel. “The National Guard has tightened its control over the prison and immediately started tracking down the fugiti...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar who came second in a February 25 presidential poll took to the streets on Monday along with his supporters to contest the election results. The electoral body last week declared Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as the winner to take over from Presid...
