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TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia has said it will seek to retrieve a four-year-old child, who arrived in Italy on a migrant boat alone. In a statement, Tunisia’s Ministry of Women, Family, Children and Seniors said authorities are keen to take “all necessary arrangements to secure the child’s return to the homeland.” The four-year-old girl [&hell...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Burkina Faso’s new government on Wednesday declared its top priority would be to secure the nation’s territory, after the latest coup to rock the Sahel state. A UN envoy warned in New York that around 4.9 million, or a fifth of the population, need urgent aid in Burkina Faso as many […]
Global journalists’ associations have condemned the murder of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif on Sunday in Kenya. The groups have called for immediate and speedy investigations into the case. Sharif was shot by Kenyan police officers at a roadblock in Kajiado County, about an hour’s drive from the capital Nairobi. Kenyan police have said t...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali forces, backed by international partners, killed 17 al-Shaabab men in a new operation, authorities said on Wednesday. The operation took place in the small town of Hawadley, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the capital Mogadishu, on Tuesday night, according to the Information Ministry. “The operation was c...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi has been appointed mediator of the political transition to elections in Chad. He was named during an extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) in the nation’s capital, Kinshasa, on Tuesday. Leaders from 11 countries of the group met to discu...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerians are worried over security alerts recently issued by the US and British embassies warning of a heightened risk of terrorist attacks, especially in the capital Abuja. Nureni Amodu, an Abuja-based journalist, told Anadolu Agency that most residents are in a panic. “I avoid traffic like most resident...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A protester was killed in Sudan on Tuesday, medics said, as pro-democracy demonstrators marked the first anniversary of a coup that derailed a transition to civilian rule. Waving Sudanese flags, thousands of protesters in Khartoum and its suburbs defied security forces who have carried out deadly crackdowns on past ralli...
CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian authorities have released activist Ziad El Alimi, who was serving a 5-year prison sentence, following an amnesty by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The presidential pardon committee said the decision came “in response to calls by various political parties.” Al-Alimi, a 41-year-old former parliamentarian, lawye...
Diamniadio, Senegal (AFP): Senegal’s President Macky Sall, who heads the African Union, on Monday hit out at the failings of the UN Security Council and the G20 group of major economies as he listed the problems facing Africa, from climate change and health crises to the impact of war in Ukraine and a spate of […]
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Organization against Torture (OMCT) on Monday accused the Chadian authorities of summary executions and torture after 50 people died during clashes in the capital N’Djamena and the south. The Geneva-based NGO listed “serious human rights violations” during protests on Thursday against a mo...
