KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 15 people, including 13 soldiers, were killed in an attack on a military vehicle in eastern Burkina Faso, the army said on Sunday. The attack attributed to armed terrorists occurred on Saturday in the rural commune of Kikideni, in the Gourma province. A unit of the military detachment of […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Tension has flared between Algeria and Morocco after an Algerian state channel published a map of the Arab region seen by Rabat as “wrong.” The uproar came as Arab foreign ministers held a meeting in Algeria to prepare for the annual Arab summit, due to open on Tuesday in the capital […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 100 people were killed in explosions in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, media reports said Sunday. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said more than 300 were injured in the terrorist attacks, according to Somali National News Agency (SONNA). He pointed out that fatalities could rise. “We will defeat and we alr...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Some 3,000 protesters in Khartoum on Saturday rejected UN mediation efforts between civilian and military leaders as “foreign interference” and called for Islamist rule in Sudan, an AFP correspondent said. A military coup led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last year derailed a fragile transition to civi...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction and followed by gunfire, “I was...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported after two bomb blasts shook Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday. One of the blasts targeted the Somali Education Ministry at the busy Zoobe intersection, said a police officer who spoke to Anadolu Agency over phone on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talki...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The State Department has ordered the family members of US government employees to leave Nigeria’s capital Abuja, citing a heightened risk of terrorist attacks. The order comes two days after the department asked non-emergency US government employees and family members to leave the city. In its travel advisory, it warned...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt announced Thursday a 3-billion-dollar agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to shore up its economy. “The IMF’s $3 billion loan is part of a $9 billion finance scheme that is expected to include $1 billion from the sustainability fund and $5 billion by the country’s development partners,” Finance Minister Moh...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has documented at least 5,684 deaths on migration routes to and within Europe since the beginning of 2021. In a statement on Wednesday, the IOM said there were increasing number of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe, and within the [&h...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan security forces have arrested five ISIS suspects for planning attacks in the country. In a statement on Wednesday, the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (CBIJ) said the suspects, aged between 20 and 45, had planned to carry out acts of terrorism, using explosive materials to target security institutions a...