MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people, including a soldier, were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region on Wednesday evening, an official said. The attack took place near a popular hotel close to the Hirshabele state presidency in the town of Jowhar. Roble Ahmed, spokesman for Hirshabele [&hel...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian army has arrested five men allegedly involved in the attack in June on St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo state. Chief of Defense Staff Gen. Lucky Irabor announced the news at a press conference in the capital Abuja. On June 5, gunmen reportedly detonated explosives in the church, after […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least four people were killed and several others wounded in bomb blasts in southern Somalia on Tuesday, officials said. The explosions took place in the vicinity of Buula-haji near Somalia’s port city of Kismayo, the administrative capital of southern Jubaland state. At least 11 people – all civilians – were [&hell...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The US wants a true partnership with Africa, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said while in South Africa, the first stop on his three-nation Africa tour seen as an attempt to counter Russia’s efforts for greater influence on the continent. Blinken arrived in South Africa just a few weeks after Russian […]
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Chad’s military government has signed a deal with more than 40 opposition groups to launch national peace talks later this month, although the main rebel outfit refused to take part. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the African Union have urged the junta and opposition to seize the latest opportunity to stabil...
Soweto, South Africa – (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken kicked off a three-nation African trip Sunday paying tribute to the Soweto Uprising, a student protest whose tragic ending galvanized the world against the apartheid regime. His visit comes as Washington scales up diplomacy to counter Russian influence on the continent an...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Muslim world reacted sharply to the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex by Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday. Calling the incident, a “serious violation of international law,” Saudi Arabia urged the international community to put an end to the escalation and provide necessary prot...
LONDON, UK (AA) – A museum in the UK has announced that it is planning to return 72 African artifacts looted during the colonial period of the British Empire. The Horniman Museum in South London agreed to return the stolen and famed artifacts, including some known as the Benin bronzes, to Nigeria following a request […]
N’Djamena, Chad – (AFP): The head of Chad’s ruling junta has flown off to Qatar to seal a peace deal with rebels, a key step in plans to restore civilian rule. General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno’s plane took off from N’Djamena airport bound for Qatar, according to a presidential statement. Deby and opposition groups...
PARIS (AA) – A French court has suspended the expulsion of an imam accused by the Interior Ministry of disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-gender equality messages. In its decision, the administrative court of Paris said the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan national born in France, would constitute a “disproportionate attack” on...
