NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 30 terrorists were killed in an attack on a military detachment in northcentral Burkina Faso on Saturday, according to the army. The army said five soldiers were killed and 10 others injured during the clash. The military detachment of Bourzanga in Bam province, Center-North Region, “vigorously retaliated” ...
GENEVA – The UN has revealed that up to 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region will face severe food insecurity over the next three months — the highest number since 2014. It also issued a warning about drought-induced food scarcity extending to East Africa. Jens Laerke, Geneva spokesman for the United Nations Office for […]...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has issued a presidential decree to form an advisory committee to draft a new constitution, excluding political parties from the process. The decree named Sadik Belaid, a law professor, to chair the advisory committee. Belaid will be entrusted with coordinating between two other advisory pane...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration notified Congress on Thursday that it has approved a prospective $691 million sale of anti-tank missiles to Egypt. The sale, if it is finalized, would include 5,070 TOW 2A Radio Frequency (RF) Missiles, spare parts, tools, test equipment and training, according to the Defense Security Cooperatio...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – At least four irregular migrants died and 10 others went missing after their boat sank off the eastern coast of Tunisia, Tunisia’s official TAP news agency reported Thursday. Search and rescue efforts were launched after the boat sank off the coast of Sfax city, said TAP, citing a statement by the […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Eleven soldiers were killed and 20 injured in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, the army announced Thursday. The military headquarters in the Madjoari department of Kompienga province in eastern Burkina Faso was directly targeted by artillery and gunfire, according to the army statement. Following the attack, 15 te...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders were arrested Wednesday in South Sudan’s capital Juba. Sudanese Communist Party Secretary General Mohammed al-Khatib and leading party member Saleh Mahmud were on a political mission to meet with rebels who are non-signatories to the Juba peace agreement, party spokesman Fa...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – South Sudanese journalists gathered Wednesday at Al Jazeera’s office in the capital Juba to express their solidarity with the family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the news broadcaster. Thirty-two journalists went to the office carrying placards bearing the late journalist’s image. The head...
LAIKIPIA, Kenya – An ornamental plant brought by the British colonialists to Kenya in the 1940s has been killing indigenous vegetation, especially grasses and bushes, thus creating food shortages for livestock and wild animals. Scientists say that the invasive plant Opuntia stricta or the prickly pear, is spreading fast across northern Kenya, ...
