KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc decided Sunday to maintain sanctions imposed on Niger following a July military intervention that deposed elected President Mohamed Bazoum. Since the July 26 intervention, ECOWAS has imposed economic sanctions on Niger including the closure of borders ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish court has issued an arrest warrant for the son of Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in connection with a fatal motorcycle accident in Istanbul. The arrest warrant for the Somali president’s son was issued, alleging his involvement in the incident that resulted in the death of motorcycle rider Yunus Emre [&h...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 12,000 people have been killed in war-torn Sudan since April, the UN humanitarian affairs office said on Thursday. The deaths include “1,300 people who were killed between 28 October and 24 November,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement. The conflict...
United Nations, United States – AFP At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council on Friday ended the world body’s political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United Nations Int...
Lagos, Nigeria — AFP Hairdresser Shola Abiodun Adeyemi begins preparing lunch by pouring out a glug of bright green biofuel gel into her stove, as many Nigerians seek to reduce cooking expenses. The cost of living has skyrocketed in Nigeria since President Bola Ahmed Tinubu ended a fuel subsidy in May. Bioethanol — a cheaper, [&hel...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Deadly attacks on government institutions in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown was an attempted coup to remove the government, an official said Tuesday. “The incident was a failed attempted coup. The intention was to illegally subvert and overthrow a democratically elected government,” said Information Minist...
Dolow, Somalia – – AFP The floodwaters in the southwestern Somali district of Dolow may have started to recede — for now — but distraught families who have lost their homes and livelihoods in the muddy deluge are now at risk of potentially fatal diseases. Shukri Abdi Osman, a 34-year-old mother of three, is sheltering [...
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 ...
