TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s Tripoli-based High Council of State (HCS) on Monday voted to resume dialogue with the East Libya-based parliament after a three-week hiatus. The HCS, which acts as a senate, suspended dialogue with the East Libya-based parliament on Dec. 7 amid tension over a move by the assembly to pass a law […]
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt on Monday received an ancient artefact known as the “Green Coffin” from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in the United States. A ceremony was held at the Foreign Ministry in Cairo to receive the artefact that was attended by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Head of the Tripoli-based government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, on Monday accused East Libya-based parliament of hindering elections in the war-torn country. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting in the Libyan capital, Dbeibeh vowed to hold the stalled polls this year. “2023 will be the year of elections in Libya,” he said. “Disap...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The bodies of 28 people who were shot dead have been found in a town in northwestern Burkina Faso, authorities said. “The tragedy occurred in Nouna, capital of the province of Kossi, on the night between Dec. 30 and Dec. 31,” Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, a government spokesman, said in a […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Eighty-five migrants have been rescued in international waters off Libya and are now on their way to the southern Italian city of Taranto, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Sea said Monday. “Following last night’s rescue in which 41 people were recovered from the water, our team undertook a trans-shipment of another 44 people...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 20 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and around 30 wounded in clashes between protesters and security forces in Somaliland, according to hospital sources. The casualties have taken place in Lasanod, the administrative capital of Sool in Somalia’s breakaway region, which has been wracked by unrest for...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan authorities on Sunday exhumed 18 bodies from a mass grave in the western city of Sirte. In a statement, the General Authority for Research and Identification of Missing Persons said the mass grave was discovered last week in Al-Sab’a neighborhood in Sirte. The corpses were sent to the city’s Ibn […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The ISIS has claimed the responsibility for an attack on a security checkpoint in Egypt earlier this week. Two gunmen on a motorbike attacked a police checkpoint in the canal city of Ismailia on Friday. Local media said an attacker was killed in the attack, without giving any information about casualties among […]
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Forty-six Ivorian soldiers in Mali were each sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison by a Malian court for attacking the security of the nation. Three others who were previously released were given the death penalty in absentia. The soldiers also received fines of more than $1,600 apiece following two days [&hellip...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The Algerian president has said “France must get rid of its colonizer complex,” according to local media. “The relations between the two countries need — in order to cool down — France to liberate itself from its colonizer complex and Algeria from its colonized complex,” Abdelma...
