CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly has announced that his country has signed 35 agreements and memoranda of understanding worth €67.7 billion ($72.4 billion) with European companies and institutions. Madbouly was speaking at the conclusion of the Egyptian-European Investment Conference in Cairo. The conference, held Sa...
Kano, Nigeria – AFP At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said. In one of three blasts on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives […]
Nouakchott, Mauritania – AFP Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani was set to win re-election by a comfortable margin, results from the electoral commission showed, with an official proclamation due on Monday. Mauritanians went to the polls on Saturday to choose between seven candidates vying to lead the sprawling...
Port Harcourt, Nigeria — AFP On a riverbank in the Niger Delta, a group of residents in rubber boots has been working to restore one of Nigeria’s most precious and damaged ecosystems — its mangrove forests. The team members plunge their shovels into the mud and slot in saplings at the site in Bundu, a […]
Nouakchott, Mauritania — AFP Seven candidates are running in Mauritania’s presidential election, with incumbent Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani the favourite to win a second term at the head of the vast West African nation. Human rights activist Biram Dah Abeid and leader of the Islamic Tewassoul party, Hamadi Ould Sid’ El M...
Tijuana, Mexico — AFP Muslims from Algeria, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan wait for US asylum at a shelter in the Mexican border city of Tijuana — more used to seeing migrants from Latin America than the Middle East. At the Assabil Inn, Mexico’s first shelter catering for US-bound Muslim migrants, the background stories of the ...
United Nations, United States — AFP Sudan’s UN ambassador has accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of fomenting conflict in his country. Sudan descended into war in April 2023, pitting the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by his former deputy Mohamed ...
N’Djamena, Chad – AFP A deadly fire erupted late Tuesday at a huge military ammunition depot in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, causing weapons to fire into the air, the government and witnesses said. Blasts from the depot in the capital’s Goudji area were heard miles away, AFP journalists said, adding that projectiles ...
Dakar, Senegal – AFP In a second-hand shop in the suburbs of Senegal’s capital, Seynabou Sarr is inundated with orders days before West Africa’s largest Muslim festival of Tabaski (Eid al-Adha) . Sarr, 30, constantly answers calls while showing customers second-hand boubous — a traditional robe worn by both men and wome...
The UN Security Council has demanded that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) immediately end hostilities and the siege of El Fasher in North Darfur. Its resolution calls for the RSF to lift the siege, halt hostilities, and ensure civilian safety. It also urges adherence to the Jeddah Declaration for civilian protection, as well as calli...
