Freetown, Sierra Leone – AFP Armed clashes erupted in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown on Sunday in what the government said was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew. Witnesses told AFP they heard gunshots and explosions in the city’s Wilberforce district, where the armoury is located alo...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The East African Community (EAC) officially embraced Somalia as its eighth member state during the 23rd ordinary summit of EAC heads of state. In a communique by the EAC Summit of Heads of State, the regional bloc said that the leaders from the region agreed to admit “the Federal Republic of […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The UN Security Council is suffering from “almost complete paralysis” over the siege of Palestine and Palestinians’ ongoing suffering at the hands of Israel, Algeria’s president has said. “The Israeli settlement occupation is indifferent to the UN Security Council, does not pay any attention to what it says, does ...
Diamniadio, Senegal — AFP Senegalese President Macky Sall has inaugurated a United Nations regional headquarters near the capital Dakar to house all UN operations in the country, AFP journalists reported. The United Nations House sits on a 13-hectare (32-acre) site in the new town of Diamniadio, some 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Dakar, ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Hundreds of people, including foreign nationals in Djibouti, participated in the African Peace March in solidarity with Palestinians in the Djiboutian city of Arta on Friday. The peace rally was organized by Djibouti’s Sports Ministry. The marchers were waving banners with peace slogans and flags of several countries,...
United Nations, United States – AFP The presence of United Nations peacekeepers, whose shortcomings can frustrate local populations, is not a “magic wand” for conflict zones, said their leader Jean-Pierre Lacroix, who supports an expanded tool kit to protect civilians in increasingly complex territory. From Lebanon to the Dem...
ALGERIA (AA) – The Algerian administration has finally appointed an ambassador to Madrid after 19 months of “suspended relations.” “The Spanish government has approved the appointment of Abdelfetah Daghmoum as Algeria’s ambassador to Spain,” said the Algerian Foreign Ministry, according to the official Algerian news agency, A...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – South Africa summoned the Israeli Ambassador to Pretoria, Eliav Belotsercovsky, in connection with his recent alleged conduct relating to Israel’s war against Palestine war. Belotsercovsky is accused of making disparaging remarks about those who are speaking out against attacks on Palestinians. “Ambassador Belotsercov...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least eight people were killed in northeastern Nigeria on Thursday when a mine planted on a road allegedly by Boko Haram exploded in the Ngala region in Borno state, reports said. Two members of the government-backed Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) were among those killed while many others sustained injuries. [&...
Tunis, Tunisia — AFP Tunisia’s parliament has begun debating a bill that would criminalize any normalization of ties with Israel as besieged and impoverished Gaza continues being pounded by deadly airstrikes leading to a death toll approaching 10,000. The draft bill defines “normalization” as “recognition of the Z...
