Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Shots were heard early Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and the headquarters of its military junta, which seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. Several main roads in the capital Ouagadougou were blocked by troops and state television was cut, broadcasting a blank screen ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Suspected separatist rebels killed five soldiers and a civilian in an attack in Nigeria, police said on Thursday. Rebels from the banned Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) carried out the attack near Umunze, a town in Nigeria’s southeastern state of Anambra, late on Wednesday, according to a police spokesman. The official ...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Two Somali human rights activists and a Ukrainian human rights lawyer have won Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award on Thursday, which it considers an alternative to the Nobel prize. The Right Livelihood Foundation also honoured Venezuela’s Cecosesola, an organisation offering social services, and the African In...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): At least 19 people have died and dozens of others hospitalised after consuming toxic alcohol from a roadside kiosk in northern Morocco. Police arrested a 48-year-old suspect in connection with the incident, the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN) said in a statement. The victims are thought to have consumed th...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – A Sudanese court has summoned the deputy leader of Sudan’s ruling Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, for testimony in the trial of former President Omar al-Bashir, according to a defense lawyer. “Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, was ordered by Khartoum court to give testimony in the case,” Wail Ali Saeed told [&hell...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Eighteen candidates vying for Nigeria’s presidency started on Wednesday their nationwide campaigns ahead of next year’s general elections. “Presidential campaigns start on 28th September 2022,” Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) revealed in its timetable. Nigerians...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – An international medical charity has said that it is witnessing a catastrophic health crisis in northwest Nigeria because of the extraordinarily high numbers of children being treated with malnutrition. Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym, MSF, said in a statement since January, teams, in collabo...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US ambassador to Sudan has warned of consequences if the northeast African country allows the establishment of a Russian military base on the Red Sea coast. In an interview with the Tayyar newspaper, John Godfrey said “there are some reports that Russia is trying to implement the agreement it signed [&hel...
Abidjan, Ivory Coast (AFP): France has offered its “full” support to the Ivory Coast in its bitter spat with Mali over 46 Ivorian soldiers who have been detained since July. The arrest of 49 soldiers (three women in the group were later released) after their arrival at Bamako airport on July 10 sparked a diplomatic […]
DOHA, Qatar/ ANKARA (AA) – Influential Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi died on Monday at age 97, according to his official Twitter account. The Doha-based International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) also confirmed the scholar’s death in a statement on its website. Qaradawi, an Egypt-born cleric who was based in Qatar, was the ...
