ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt on Tuesday called for restraint in Libya amid clashes between rival armed groups in the capital Tripoli. Clashes erupted in Tripoli between armed groups loyal to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and rival leader Fathi Bashagha, who was recently appointed as premier by the Tobruk-based parliament. Bashagha reached the ca...
Tripoli, Libya – AFP Libya’s capital was rocked early Tuesday by gunfights between backers of two rival administrations, threatening another escalation in the war-torn North African country. Supporters of a government endorsed by Libya’s parliament and by an eastern-based military strongman had tried to move into the western ...
Bamako, Mali – AFP Mali’s military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state. The statement read out on state television said a “small group of anti-progressive Malian officers and non-commissioned officers attempted a coup in the night of May 1...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has reauthorized the deployment of US forces to Somalia, the White House announced on Monday in a major policy reversal conducted at the Pentagon’s request. Former US President Donald Trump pulled roughly 700 American troops out from the east African country during the final month of his presid...
DOUALA, Cameroon – At least five people have been arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s largest city and capital, following sporadic but violent protests against France over its alleged backing of the country’s military junta, the government said Monday. The Wakit-tamma coalition, a civil society group, held an authorized demonstrati...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The United Nations and Somalia’s neighbors have congratulated Hassan Sheikh Mohamud- the new president of Somalia- announcing their commitment to work with the new administration. Mohamud has been elected president on Sunday May 15 after he received 214 parliamentary votes, defeating outgoing President Mohamed ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved the country’s parliament on Monday, accusing lawmakers of corruption. According to a presidential decree, the decision was made considering the “existence of persistent and insurmountable differences between the National People’s Assembly and other...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali lawmakers from both houses of parliament who gathered in a hangar inside heavily fortified Mogadishu International Airport elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president Sunday, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo. Mohamud, who was Mohamed’s immediate predecessor as ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 43 people were killed over the weekend in separate attacks attributed to terrorists in Burkina Faso. The first attack occurred between Salmossi and Markoye in the province of Oudalan in the Sahel region, leaving six people dead, including five army auxiliaries and one civilian. Eight other volunteer militia...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military junta announced Sunday that it has decided to withdraw from the West African multi-national military force G5 Sahel, citing a lack of progress in uprooting an insurgency. The G5 Sahel, which comprises Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger, was created in 2014 and its anti-insurgent force launched ...
