KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two police officers and two assailants were killed when motorbike-riding gunmen opened fire at a police station in northern Benin on Sunday. The police station in the Dassari district near the border with Burkina Faso was attacked at 2 a.m. local time. Besides those killed, one officer was wounded, according to [&he...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Hamza Abdi Barre assumed office as Somalia’s 21st prime minister after receiving a vote of confidence from all the 220 members of parliament in Somalia on Saturday. The new prime minister will pick his Cabinet in 30 days. Parliament Speaker Aden Madobe was quoted by the local media as saying that […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The United States and four European countries have called on Libyan leaders to accelerate the establishment of a legal basis for holding elections in the war-torn country. “We call on the House of Representatives, the High State Council, and their leaders to urgently finalize the legal basis so that credible, transparent,...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The death toll of migrants who died trying to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla rose to 27 on Saturday, according to the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). Around 2,000 migrants, many from Sudan, tried to cross the militarized border fence on Friday. At first, five people […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has called on the authorities to unveil the identity of those plotting to assassinate Tunisian President Kais Saied. On Thursday, the Interior Ministry said there were plots to assassinate Saied and to “damage state security and create chaos.” “Ennahda condemns any assault on state institutions,...
Cairo, Egypt – (AFP/AA) Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday hailed Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani’s visit to Egypt as an “important step” for developing ties between Cairo and Doha. Al-Sisi and Tamim held talks in Cairo on Saturday where they discussed bilateral relations and regional developments, t...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP) Tunisian police on Thursday arrested former prime minister Hamadi Jebali, an ex-senior figure in the Ennahdha party which is the nemesis of current President Kais Saied, Jebali’s lawyer said. He could not say why Jebali was detained. “The police arrested Mr Jebali in his car in Soussa, then took him to ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s army said Friday it had given civilians two weeks to evacuate areas in the northern and southeastern regions ahead of a military offensive against terrorists blamed for recent deadly attacks. “A delay of 14 days will be accorded to residents to relocate to safer zones,” army spokesperson Yves Di...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Newly elected Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud disclosed on Friday that he had tested positive for coronavirus. He added that so far he was asymptomatic. “My fellow citizens, I would like to inform you that today I tested positive for COVID-19,” Mohamud, who took office in May after winning the...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Five irregular migrants died on Friday in an attempt to storm the iron fence surrounding Melilla, a Spanish-administered city in North Africa. The incident took place “as a result of a stampede of migrants and some of them fell from the top of the fence,” Moroccan authorities of the country’s north...
