MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 10 people were killed and more than 15 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in central Somalia on Saturday, a security official said. The suicide bomber hit a busy restaurant in Beledweyne, the provincial capital of Hiran, a security official told Anadolu Agency over phone on […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Scores of protesters were injured in Sunday’s protests demanding full civilian rule in Sudan, according to local medics. In a statement, the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said 92 demonstrators were wounded, including two by live bullets. On Sunday, thousands of protesters demonstrated in the capital Kharto...
Bamako, Mali – AFP Mali’s lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists said, despite regional sanctions imposed on the country over delayed elections. After staging a coup in the impoverished Sahel state in August 2020, the country’s military rulers initially pr...
Malians gathered in the capital Bamako BAA MU KOW to celebrate the withdrawal of French troops. Some demonstrators carried placards with messages such as “France is a terrorist nation.” Mali’s government on Friday asked France to withdraw its forces from the Sahel state “without delay.” It called into question Paris’ plans to pull out over [&h...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Clashes among Somali security forces in Beledweyne killed Mohamed Hussein Durdage, a senior police commander in the Hiiraan region on Thursday, an official told Anadolu Agency. Beledweyne District Governor Osman Dhisow Dhubow said an elite police unit, Harmcad, that was recently deployed to the central city earl...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has expelled US deputy chief of diplomatic mission in Moscow, the embassy’s spokesman Jason Rebholz said on Thursday amid heightened tensions over Ukraine. Bart Gorman, the second-highest official of the US embassy in Moscow, left Russia late January, Rebholz said in an interview with the state-run RIA news age...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian politician has called for forming a “national salvation front” to pull the North African country out of its political crisis. The call was made by Ahmed Najib Chebbi, a leading member of Al-Amal Party during a gathering of political and parliamentary figures, organized on Thursday in the capital Tunis […...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Niger on Friday confirmed that it has agreed to allow French and European special forces withdrawing from Mali to be deployed on its territory. The announcement came from President Mohamed Bazoum a day after European leaders said forces stationed in Mali for counterterrorism missions will be pulled out due to “multiple [&...
Tourists in Somalia are flocking to visit an Ottoman-era castle as the Horn of Africa country recovers from weak governance and insecurity. Taleh Castle once hosted the Dervish movement led by Sayyid Mohamed Abdulle Hassan, one of the country’s freedom icons. Historical records suggest Hassan, backed by the Ottomans, had launched an armed stru...
A retired teacher who has been collecting materials on African American history for 60 years will put her collection on sale this month in New York City. Elizabeth Meaders, 90, of Staten Island, New York, has turned her house into a kind of museum, with more than 20,000 historical documents and items. Meaders, who loves […]
