NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed bilateral relations on Wednesday and agreed to boost trade. Addressing a press conference after a meeting in the capital New Delhi, Modi said they have decided to take the bilateral trade between India and Egypt to $12 billion [&...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (AFP): Mauritania’s ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz went on trial on Wednesday, accused of amassing an illicit personal fortune from his 11-year stay in power. Aziz, a 66-year-old former general, appeared in a court in Nouakchott among 10 defendants, including former prime ministers, ministers and businessmen,...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has called for a boycott of Dutch and Swedish products amid anger over the desecration of the Quran in the two European countries. On Sunday, Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, carried out a despicable act of desecration and filmed it for [...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, has called for restoring democracy in the country. In an interview, Ghannouchi termed the positions of the European Union, the US and Canada on Tunisia’s democratic transition as “positive”. “We do not wait for foreign armies to support democracy in Tunisia,” Gh...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least five people including two high school students and a woman were wounded when a mortar targeting Somalia’s presidential palace rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, an official said. Osman Mohamed, a security official in Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone that several mortar shells that the...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Health Organization said Tuesday that one of its doctors had been abducted in Mali, adding that the motivation behind an attack on his car was unclear. “We deplore the abduction of WHO colleague Dr Mahamadou Diawara, who was taken by unidentified assailants from his car on January 23, in the […...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso has decided to end a military pact that allowed French troops in the country because it is in line with the transition government’s vision for the Burkinabe people to defend their country, government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo said Monday. In 2018, Burkina Faso reached a military accord with France tha...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria and Italy signed five memoranda of understanding on Monday to boost bilateral cooperation during Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s visit to the North African nation. Two MoUs were signed between Algeria’s Sonatrach and Italian energy giant Eni for joint projects in energy supply, energy transition and deca...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s military government has vowed to pursue the militants who kidnapped 27 women and 39 children earlier this month in the country’s Sahel region. The commitment came days after the army freed the group of women, who were kidnapped on Jan. 12-13 in Soum province near the town of Arbinda. […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The Speaker of Libya’s House of Representatives has said that they have submitted a proposal to the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) to form a new, single government instead of opting for a dual government system. “There is still an opportunity to form a new government. A proposal has […]