TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The health of three Tunisian judges who have been on hunger strike for several weeks in protest against President Kais Saied’s decision to fire 57 justices has deteriorated and they have been admitted to hospital, according to a judicial fraternity organization. A statement issued by the Tunisian Judges Associ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Fresh demonstrations erupted in Sudan on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Thousands of protesters rallied in the capital Khartoum, with demonstrators blocking a number of roads with barricades and burning tyres. Security forces shut roads leading to the Presidential Palace and the headqua...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Local Senegalese citizens and the country’s diaspora voted in Senegal’s general elections on Sunday to choose members of the 165-seat parliament to govern for the next five years. Voting booths and polling stations opened at 0800 GMT, with local media reporting a moderate turnout. “There was no major inciden...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria has resumed commercial operations with Spain after Algerian Banks Association announced the suspension of a decision that had frozen trade exchanges with Spain. Banking institutions operating in Algeria received a new directive earlier on July 28 stating that the decision to “stop any commercial operations...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Qaeda-affiliated group al-Shabab publicly executed seven people, including a soldier, for alleged spying in southwestern Somalia, according to local media. The seven men were executed by firing squad in Buula Fulay in the Bay region, as witnessed by many bystanders, according to the terror group’s propaganda ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Shabaab militants launched a fresh attack on a Somali town located near the border with Ethiopia on Friday. The attacks took place in the town of Aato in Bokol region near Ethiopia’s Somali region, where Liyu police, a counterinsurgency force, operates. Al-Shabaab rebels later claimed responsibility for...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported on Friday after a bomb blast targeted senior regional government officials in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa, officials said. A security official in Baidoa told Anadolu Agency that initial reports said Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, justice minister in the South West State, is among t...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Forest fires raging for days in northern Tunisia are now “90% under control,” an official said on Thursday. Blazes have been spreading in forests in Bargou, located around 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of the capital Tunis, for some five days. “The wildfires erupted on Sunday and grew in intensity over […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia supports the processes for global peace and order based on international law, true multilateralism, and the central role of the UN, the Russian top diplomat said on Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Council along with his Chinese counterpart W...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The French president has pledged funding for Guinea Bissau’s economic development and fight against terrorism, as he wrapped up a three-country Africa tour after traveling to Cameroon and Benin. Emmanuel Macron met Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who became the chair of the West African economic bloc...
