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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – An Egyptian plane carrying 27 tons of medical supplies and vaccines has arrived in Beirut as part of efforts to combat a cholera outbreak in Lebanon. “The supplies will be distributed to hospitals where cholera patients are being treated,” Health Minister Firas al-Abiad told a press conference. Egyptian Ambassador Yasser...
Libreville, Gabon (AFP): The leaders of Chad’s two main opposition groups have said that they are in hiding over fears for their safety, following a violent crackdown on demonstrations last month. Succes Masra, head of the Transformers party, told AFP he was in “another country” because he was wanted by the “presidentia...
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): The UN climate summit in Egypt has afforded local rights defenders rare visibility, but some fear a backlash after global attention shifts away from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime. With little promise of speedy united action to tackle the climate crisis, many headlines out of COP27 have focussed on ...
TRIPOLI (AA) – Authorities in Libya have unearthed 230 bodies, mostly unidentified, from sites in Tarhuna, a city south of the capital Tripoli, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Wednesday. Karim Asad Ahmad Khan addressed the UN Security Council after his visits to Libya and updated the council in a speec...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA/AFP) – The French president on Wednesday announced an end to the nearly decade-long Barkhane counter-terrorist mission in Africa. Operation Barkhane had not been operational since February after France announced its military withdrawal from Mali. The last French troops left their base in the Malian town of Gao on Aug.15. Ten...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s military has captured a strategic town in the central Galgaduud region that had been controlled by the al-Shabaab for more than 15 years. The town of Wabho was retaken as part of an ongoing new offensive against the group, Defense Ministry spokesperson Gen. Abdullahi Ali Aanod said at a news […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): International pressure on Egypt has mounted for the “immediate release” of Alaa Abdel Fattah, whose family fears for his life after he escalated his hunger strike by refusing water too as COP27 opened. After a seven-month stint during which he consumed only “100 calories a day”, the 40-year...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s new interior minister has drawn outrage from many segments of the country over his recent remarks about irregular migrants. During a meeting in Milano on Monday, Matteo Piantedosi defined migrants who are denied permission to disembark from humanitarian ships as “residual cargo” who do not need to be rescued. Pi...
LUSAKA, Zambia (AA) – Zambia has made a clarion call to the UN climate change conference COP27 for developed countries to pledge $100 billion in annual financing to beat climate change in Africa. “As Chair of the African group of negotiators here at the conference, we feel that we have to address the key issues […]
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he received assurances from his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi on the health of jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. Macron and Sisi held talks on the sidelines of the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh. “I raised the [&h...
