KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Muslim women in Uganda have complained in the parliament that they are being forced to remove their veils before getting any services. The women said that apart from being forced to remove veils before being photographed at passport offices, some schools force female students to remove their veils. Female MP for [&...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military government has announced the expulsion of a UN peacekeeping mission spokesman for posts he made on Twitter following a diplomatic incident with the Ivory Coast. Olivier Salgado, from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Foreign Minis...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s presidential spokesman said Tuesday that reports of Somali troops trained in Eritrea being involved in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict are nothing but “rumors.” Abdikarin Ali Kaar, who held a news conference in the national capital of Mogadishu, said 5,000 “missing” Somali trainees have been found and the g...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria’s state-owned oil company Sonatrach on Tuesday signed a contract with French, US and Italian oil giants to invest $4 billion to produce 1 billion of oil equivalent barrels. The contract was signed by France’s TotalEnergies, US oil giant Occidental Petroleum and Italy’s Eni. In a statement, Sonatrach said the con...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Raging wildfires continue to devour thousands of hectares of mountain forests in northern Morocco. In a statement, the Ministry of Agriculture said 9,200 hectares of forests have been destroyed by the flames since last week. The statement was issued following a visit by Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries Moham...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian authorities on Tuesday questioned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi on accusations of money-laundering. Ghannouchi appeared before an anti-terrorism judge to answer questions regarding suspicious financial transactions within the “Namaa Tounes” charity. Dozens of Ennahda supporters rallied outside the courthouse i...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s breakaway region Somaliland has banned the BBC from operating in its territory, citing the British public broadcaster’s refusal to recognize the territory as a democratic republic. After 31 years of our independence and holding three parliamentary elections with five presidents elected to office, the B...
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): Thousands of Sudan’s Hawsa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country’s south. Violence in Blue Nile state, bordering Ethiopia, has killed 60 people and wounded 163 others, including 13 in se...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Tribal violence has flared in Kassala city in eastern Sudan amid arson attacks on government premises and shops. Armed men from Hausa tribe attacked and set fire to government buildings, marketplaces and shops in the city, eye witnesses said. The violence grew out of tension between Hausa and Birta tribes in […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A Somali passenger plane landed upside down before catching fire at an airport in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, and all people on board were saved, said an official. A civilian airliner with 36 passengers crash-landed at Aden Adde International Airport, an official from Somalia’s Civil Aviation Authority told...
