NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Education Minister George Magoha met Muslim leaders in Kenya and NTV journalist Rukia Bulle to apologize for his offensive racist and Islamophobic remarks. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) chair Hassan Ole Naado were among Muslim leaders present...
Conakry, Guinea — (AFP): Protests against Guinea’s ruling junta held in defiance of a protest ban have brought the capital Conakry to a standstill, with clashes breaking out in some neighbourhoods. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), an influential coalition of political parties, trade unions and civil so...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s military killed 30 of the terrorists who ambushed members of the Presidential Guards Brigade earlier this month in the Bwari area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the Defense Headquarters said Thursday. The operation was conducted between Sunday and Tuesday by troops of the 7 Guards Battalion and 167...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – At least 66 people were killed in terrorist attacks Wednesday in several towns in Mali, according to security sources. “The Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) repelled terrorist attacks targeting positions in Savare, Sokolo and Kalumba early this Wednesday, July 27. The response, carried out with energy and professi...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Opposition legislators in Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over increasing insecurity in parts of the country. Buhari has six weeks to “take stronger action and resolve this issue of insecurity,” Philip Aduda, a member of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, said at a...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia said on Wednesday that it stands impartial regarding the Nile Dam dispute between Sudan, Egypt, and Ethiopia. “As you know the Nile River doesn’t pass through Somalia and the country’s position is neutral,” presidential spokesman Abdikarin Ali Kaar said at a news conference in Mogadishu as he urged the c...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The World Bank will provide the World Food Program (WFP) with $100 million to address food insecurity in Sudan, the WFP said on Wednesday. The humanitarian organization said in a statement that the funds will be used to provide food and cash transfers for over two million people across the country. […]
ano, Nigeria – (AFP): Thirteen scrap-metal collectors in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state were killed when a bomb they excavated blew up, security sources told AFP on Tuesday. Sixteen metal scavengers from a displaced persons’ camp in Bama found the bomb while digging for scrap on Monday in the bush on the outskirts of town. &...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday accused President Kais Saied’s electoral board of falsifying turnout figures, saying his referendum on a new constitution had “failed.” Tunisians voted on Monday on a draft charter that would give the president unchecked powers, a year after Sai...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisians have approved a new constitution in a referendum, the head of the country’s electoral commission said Tuesday, citing preliminary results. Farouk Bouasker, president of the Independent High Authority for Elections, said 94.6% of the participants in the referendum voted “yes” and 5.4% voted R...
