ALGIERS, Algeria – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ramtane Lamamra on Tuesday as the two countries marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations. Lavrov “took part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to the heroe...
KIGALI, Rwanda – At least 14 civilians were killed in an overnight attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Most of the victims were beheaded with machetes, according to the Kivu Security Tracker. It blamed the attack on the Lodda camp, located near the town […]
ANKARA – Some 44 migrants are believed to have died after their boat, carrying over 50 people, capsized off Cape Bojador on the west coast of Western Sahara. “Forty-four people have died this morning in a shipwreck south of Cape Bojador,” Helena Maleno Garzon, the founder of the migrant aid agency Caminando Fronteras (Walking...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has welcomed the launch of a national dialogue facilitated by the UN and the African Union. The SRF is an alliance of political and armed groups formed in 2011 to oppose the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. “We welcome the planned launch of dialogue between Sudanese […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced late Sunday that he is running for a second term in the country’s highly anticipated presidential election. Addressing the nation in a short video posted on his Twitter account, Mohamed said he is seeking a second term as president to continue the cou...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s national electoral body on Sunday said its chairman will not get involved in partisan politics or run for the country’s presidency in the general elections early next year. In a statement, Rotimi Oyekanmi, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, describ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Heavily armed unidentified militants launched an attack on a prison in northwest Burkina Faso overnight Saturday, and about 60 inmates managed to escape, local media reported Sunday. The attack at the civilian prison in the town of Nouna, in the province of Kossi in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, left one […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said the “heinous massacres” committed during the French colonial era in Algeria “can’t be forgotten.” In a message on the 77th anniversary of the massacre which began on May 8, 1945, committed by the French colonial army against Algerian demonstrators, Tebb...
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 48 people were killed by gunmen in three villages in northwestern Nigeria on Friday, according to local authorities. Aminu Suleiman, a local official in Bakura in Zamfara State, confirmed the attacks on Sunday, saying that bandits on motorcycles attacked people in Sabon Gari, Damri, and Kalahe, local media reported. Nig...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA): Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has said that it refuses to engage in a “sham” dialogue that deepens the current political crisis in the country. On Thursday May 5, the Tunisian President Kais Saied had pledged to issue a decree soon to hold a national dialogue in Tunisia. “This dialogue is [a new attempt] […]
