ANKARA (AA) – Israeli army Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Morocco this week, according to the Israeli media. Kochavi’s three-day trip will be the first time an Israeli military chief officially visits the North African nation. Last month, Israeli military officials participated as observers in a ma...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar in Somalia on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese protesters staged fresh rallies in the capital Khartoum on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Demonstrators in Khartoum and the cities of Bahri and Omdurman waved banners demanding civilian rule amid chants against the military, according to reporters. Protesters...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities are struggling to bring fires that ravaged remote mountain forests under control. “The flames have damaged around 4,600 hectares of forests,” Fouad Assali, head of the National Center for Climate and Forest Risk Management, told the local media. He said firefighters were struggling for a fifth d...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has asked for clarifications about the questioning of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi by Tunisian authorities, a former parliamentarian said on Saturday. Maher Madhioub said in a Facebook post that the IPU’s Human Rights Committee requested clarifications from Tunisian authoritie...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan said Saturday that 31 people were killed in tribal clashes in the Blue Nile state near the border with Ethiopia. The clashes between Hausa and Birta tribes erupted in the town of Damazin on Friday and spread to other areas in the state on Saturday. The violence was triggered by […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported in southern Somalia on Sunday as a powerful explosion struck a popular hotel frequented by regional authorities, officials said. The blast was the result of a car bomb that targeted Nur Dob hotel in the town of Jowhar, wounding several people including local authorities, among t...
Larache, Morocco – (AFP): Hundreds of Moroccan firefighters and soldiers battled late Thursday to put out at least four infernos ripping through forests in the north of the kingdom, officials said. The fires, fanned by strong winds in the four areas, have not resulted in any casualties so far, but nearly 500 families were evacuated [&hel...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Head of Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla has rejected a decision by the Tripoli-based government to sack him. Sanalla said the mandate of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh’s government has expired. In March, Libya’s Parliament appointed a new government headed by former Interior Minister F...
