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Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has written he is “doing well” and is taking liquids after fears rose for his health amid a months-long hunger strike. Abdel Fattah, who consumed “only 100 calories a day” for seven months, intensified his strike as the COP27 climate summit opened on...
ANKARA (AA) – The UK has announced that the country is ending troop deployment to the UN mission in Mali earlier than planned, with British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey saying that two coups in Mali in three years had “undermined” international efforts to maintain peace. “The Wagner Group is linked to mass human ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities have intercepted thousands of illegal migrants in the first eight months of 2022, according to a parliamentary report. The report said that over 56,000 migrants were prevented from illegally crossing the Mediterranean into Europe in the period from January to August. “Around 12,000 migrants were rescu...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia has said it will get 100 million euros from the European Union to support the country’s budget. The money will be used to alleviate impact of the coronavirus pandemic and support economic activity, the Ministry of Economy and Planning said in a statement cited by the state news agency TAP. […]
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): More than 620 people, including dozens of minors, have been arrested in Chad after anti-regime protests that left at least 50 dead. The arrest figure is far higher than previously stated officially. N’Djamena prosecutor Moussa Wade Djibrine told reporters 621 people had been arrested and sent to Koro Toro hig...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): Chants of “free them all” and “no climate justice without human rights” rang out between the halls of COP27 Saturday, in the largest protest since the UN climate summit began. Jailed Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah’s sister, Sanaa Seif, who is at the summit campaigning for her br...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s new legislative assembly has held its inaugural session over a month after the year’s second coup in the country. The military junta led by Capt. Ibrahim Traore, who seized power from Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on September 30, has appointed 71 members to the assembly from political parties, [&hell...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Thousands of Islamists gathered Saturday for the second time in two weeks to protest “interference” by the United Nations mission in Sudan, an AFP journalist reported. The demonstrators have objected to UN efforts to mediate between the country’s military and civilian leaders following last year’...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, his Egyptian counterpart, emphasized on Friday the multifaceted strategic partnership the two countries. The two met on the sidelines of a key UN climate conference, which is being hosted in Egypt’s resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, during which the leaders “fir...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – At least 28 people, mostly women and children, have been killed in clashes between two rival clans in Nigeria’s Benue state, an official said on Thursday. Violence between the Ezza and Effunn clans was triggered by the alleged desecration of a shrine in the neighboring Ebonyi state. Since Monday, dozens of […]...
