ISTANBUL – Karanfil Grup, a Turkish company conducting cruises between Istanbul and Libya’s seaport Misrata, has created an important touristic and business link between Turkiye and Libya. Murtaza Karanfil, chairman of the board of Karanfil Group, stressed that the cruises are one of the biggest indicators that the relations betwee...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Around 100 people were killed in clashes between artisanal gold miners in northern Chad last week, the government announced Monday. The violence broke out on May 23 and 24 at an informal gold mining site in the mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district, some 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) northeast of the capital N’Djamena ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and four others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region on Monday. The target of the blast in Afgoye, located some 30 kilometers (18 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu, was Hussein Jibril, the town’s former deputy mayor, a police officer told […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Egypt and the European Union (EU) in the coming weeks to export natural gas to EU countries, the country’s energy minister said on Monday. Karine Elharrar told the Israeli Army Radio that Israeli and European teams are working on setting cooperation between them [&helli...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s best-known peace activist Abdullahi Mohamed Shirwa died in the country’s capital Mogadishu early on Sunday, officials said. He was 72. Tributes pour in the wake of Shirwa’s death after illness as Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble were amon...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The head of Sudan’s ruling military council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, on Sunday lifted a nationwide state of emergency that was imposed after the military seized power in a coup in October last year. In a statement, the ruling Sovereign Council said the order was lifted “to prepare the atmosphere for a [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian army said Sunday it had killed 10 militants in clashes in the Sinai Peninsula. A military spokesman said army forces raided a “terrorist” hideout in the northern part of the peninsula and clashed with militants inside. A cache of weapons, ammunition, and explosives were seized during the raid. At leas...
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): The trial of four people accused of fatally stabbing a senior police officer during anti-coup protests in Sudan opened in the capital Khartoum on Sunday. The judge ordered an investigation into allegations the four had been tortured in custody and adjourned the court until June 12. General Ali Bareema was killed ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A court in the East African country of Djibouti sentenced a former budget minister and former police chief to three years in prison each for obtaining secret recordings said to be between the president and top commanders, state media reported on Friday. Bodeh Ahmed Robleh and Abdillahi Abdi Farah obtained the [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration approved on Thursday the potential $2.6 billion sale to Egypt of CH-47F Chinook helicopters, and related equipment. The package includes nearly two-dozen Chinooks, 56 T-55-GA-714A engines, 52 Embedded Global Positioning System Inertial Navigation Systems, 29 AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Syst...
