ISTANBUL (AA) – An activist group in Morocco has urged the government to block a Japanese-owned cargo ship, Vertom Odette, suspected of transporting weapons to Israel from passing through its territorial waters. Sailing under the flag of Luxembourg, the commercial ship departed from India on April 18 and is set to arrive at the Spanish [...
Diamniadio, Senegal – AFP Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched a national consultation to reform and modernise the justice system, a priority for the new leader who left prison just 10 days before his election victory. Faye, his prime minister Ousmane Sonko, and several of their party members were imprisoned durin...
A Sudanese film producer defied censorship on Palestinian content on social media by creatively evading algorithms. Due to restrictions placed on mentioning “Gaza” or “Palestine” because of Israeli pressure, Amjad Al Nour utilized ambiguous language and mixed signals to circumvent detection. He has been raising awarenes...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Several hundred Tunisians marched through the capital chanting “down with the dictatorship” as they protested a spate of arrests under a presidential decree critics say is being used to stifle dissent. Two Tunisian media figures received one-year jail sentences earlier on Wednesday after making comments t...
UN human rights chief Volker Türk is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe if the Sudanese town of Al-Fashir comes under attack. The capital of North Darfur is currently facing escalating violence with arbitrary killings, village burnings, and a tightening siege cutting off aid and trade. The ongoing conflict between military and paramilitar...
Niamey, Niger – AFP The US troop withdrawal from Niger, at the demand of the West African nation’s military rulers, has begun and will be over by September 15 “at the latest”, a joint statement said Sunday. The two sides announced they had reached a disengagement agreement and US forces deployed as part of an […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence Friday against Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of the Ennahda Movement, in the case known as “Lobbying,” according to the Tunisian state news agency. A court sentenced Ghannouchi to three years on Feb. 1 on accusations of receiving foreign funding for ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – A young Nigerian has developed a drone to deliver medicine and medical supplies to patients in rural areas of the country’s impoverished northwest region. Jubrin Musa, a 25-year-old secondary school dropout in Nigeria’s city of Kano, said he began working on the project 12 years ago. “I couldn̵...
KAGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad’s Constitutional Council has confirmed transitional President Gen. Mahamat Idriss Deby as the winner of the May 6 presidential election. Deby garnered 61% of the vote compared to his main challenger, Prime Minister Succes Masra, who won 18.54%, according to final results announced by Constitutional Counci...
Port Sudan, Sudan — AFP Clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries earlier this week in the key Darfur town of El-Fasher, the United Nations has said, killing at least 27 people in one day. Eyewitnesses have reported air strikes, artillery fire and machine gun clashes battering the city since Friday, when an [&h...
