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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The head of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Military Council, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has warned loyalists of former President Omar al-Bashir against interfering in the army’s affairs. “The military institution does not support any faction or party,” Al-Burhan said in a speech aired by state television. “Stay away from the...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Thousands of demonstrators thronged Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday to protest the publication of a video on social media deemed blasphemous against Islam. Six people were held on Thursday accused of complicity in circulating a “blasphemous” video showing a man making “derogatory comments” and ...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Leaders of a divided world meet in Egypt on Monday tasked with taming the terrifying juggernaut of global warming as they face gale-force geopolitical crosswinds, including the war in Ukraine and economic turmoil. Expectations are high from a world justifiably anxious about its climate-addled future as deadly floods, heat w...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Backed by locals, elite Somali forces killed more than 100 members of al-Shabaab, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. Ministry spokesman Abdullahi Ali Anod told reporters that two units of the elite Danab, or lightning brigade, troops with the support of local militia forces known as “Macw...
ANKARA (AA) – The French parliament adjourned its sitting on Thursday after Black lawmaker Carlos Martens Bilongo was yelled at to go back to Africa by a member of a far-right party. Bilongo, a member of the left-wing France Insoumise party, was addressing the chamber when the far-right member yelled, “Go back to Africa!,” th...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Saudi Arabia will host the next Arab summit, its foreign minister has announced. “Based on the kingdom’s keenness to perpetuate the existing cooperation, we announce that our country will host the 32nd Arab summit,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told the 31st Arab summit in Algeria. “We wel...
Awali, Bahrain (AFP): One of the world’s leading Islamic clerics on Friday called for dialogue between the faith’s two main currents to settle sectarian differences, in an address to religious leaders. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar mosque, a centre of Sunni learning, made the rare appea...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Burkina Faso’s new military leader visited Mali on Wednesday for his first foreign trip since taking power, holding what his Malian counterpart hailed as “fruitful” exchange of views on peace and security. Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power in Burkina Faso in a coup on September 30, flew to the Malia...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 21 children, most of them girls, working on a farm in northwestern Nigeria, police and local officials said on Wednesday. Gambo Isah, a police spokesperson, told Anadolu Agency that “18 young women and three young men” were taken away from a farm in Faskari, an area […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Suspected al-Shabaab members have abducted four people in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia. The suspects crossed over from Somalia late on Tuesday night and ambushed an ambulance in Mandera county, according to a police statement. The people abducted include two paramedics from the Lafey Sub-County Hospita...
