MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Officials from Türkiye and Norway last week met Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Muse Bihi Abdi, the leader of the unrecognized breakaway region of Somaliland. The Somali leader told Turkish Special envoy Aykut Kumbaroglu and Norwegian envoy Heidi Johansen that he is determined to resume talks with So...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Several African heads of state have reached the US for a three-day summit starting Tuesday that Washington says “will underscore the importance of US-Africa relations and increased cooperation on shared global priorities.” President Joe Biden will host 49 top African officials at the US-Africa Leaders Summit, includin...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AA) – The bodies of 27 people, believed to be migrants from Ethiopia, were found dumped by the roadside on the outskirts of the Zambian capital Lusaka on Sunday, police said. “Our preliminary investigations indicate that a total of 28 men, aged between 20 and 38, were dumped in Meanwood Nkhosi along Chiminuka [&hell...
Conakry, Guinea (AFP): Guinea’s former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara denied responsibility when he took the stand Monday at a trial of officials implicated in a 2009 massacre. Camara and 10 other former military and government officials stand accused over the killing of 156 people and the rape of at least 109 women by pro-junta forces [&h...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen launched an attack Monday on the office of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and three of the attackers were killed, according to police. Speaking by phone to Anadolu Agency, Imo state police spokesman Michael Abbatam confirmed the incident in the capital Owerri. “Gunmen launched an at...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping met with Algerian Prime Minister Ayman Benabderrahmane on Friday in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh and hailed fruitful cooperation between the two nations. Xi noted that China and Algeria enjoy traditional friendship and that their practical cooperation has yielded fruitful results, accordin...
ROME (AA) – Italy has given the authorization to disembark to two nongovernmental rescue ships that were waiting in the Mediterranean Sea with more than 500 irregular migrants. French-based medical charity ‘Doctors Without Borders’ wrote on Twitter that the Geo Barents ship with 248 migrants had been allowed to dock at the Sa...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Authorities in Tunisia have “not done enough” to protect women against domestic violence despite progressive legislation five years ago, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. In 2017, a law was passed to tackle violence against women, regarded as a pioneering initiative. However, “insufficient” imp...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): Eighty minors who had been arrested and held in a desert prison following deadly protests in Chad in October have been given bail, public prosecutor Moussa Wade Djibrine has said. “A request for (their) provisional release was filed and the judge accepted it,” he said, adding that proceedings against th...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay a two-day visit to Algeria beginning Saturday, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry on Friday. Cavusoglu is expected to be received by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune to discuss regional and international issues and ties between the two nations, said a m...
