KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The African Union chair has added his voice in condemnation of the incident of setting fire to Quran in the Swedish capital Stockholm. Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs (Hard Line) Party, under the protection of state police, conducted the offensive act outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on [&hellip...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – France’s president has said that he is waiting for an explanation from Burkina Faso after its military government reportedly said it wanted French troops to leave the country within a month. “We are waiting for clarification,” Macron was quoted as saying by the French media. His statement comes a day a...
Tripoli, Libya – (AFP): Only five of the Arab League’s 22 members sent their top diplomats to a meeting hosted by Libya’s unity government on Sunday. The bloc’s secretary general also stayed away from the meeting. The snub underlines Arab divisions over the Tripoli-based government, whose legitimacy is contested by a ri...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least six people were killed in an attack by Al-Shabaab militants at the mayor’s office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, police said. A suicide bomber set off a huge blast that tore through a building near the office complex with gunfire starting afterwards, Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe said at the [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Bombings followed by gunfire in Somalia’s capital targeted the Banadir Regional Administration headquarters on Sunday, with multiple casualties feared, an official said. Abdifatah Ilmi, a security official in Mogadishu, told Anadolu that authorities suspected the attack involved three heavy explosions befo...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Secretary General of the Tunisian Labor Union (UGTT) has said that Tunisia is witnessing the social and economic consequences of “monopolized power.” During the 77th anniversary of the founding of the union, Noureddine Taboubi said: “The situation in Tunisia cannot get any worse.” He stressed that &#...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Eight people were beheaded by bandits at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Benue State in north central Nigeria, officials said Friday. “Suspected bandits attacked Abagana opposite the IDP camp. So far, eight corpses, including women and children, have been recovered, and eight others seriously injured we...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A senior Somali army commando was killed Friday and several wounded when al-Shabaab fighters launched an early morning attack on a military camp in central Somalia, said officials. The attack involved car bombs at a military base in the newly liberated Galcad town in Galmudug state that resulted in multiple casu...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – At least 50 women recently abducted in northern Burkina Faso have been found, local sources reported Friday. “The women abducted on the night of 12-13 January 2023 in Arbinda by terrorists have been found,” the National News Agency said, citing “reliable sources” without disclosing further ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Demonstrators in Burkina Faso’s capital Friday demanded France’s ambassador leave the country and called for the closure of a French military base, an AFP journalist saw. Carrying placards with slogans such as “French army, get out”, several hundred people gathered in a central Ouagadoug...