ANKARA (AA) – France is not boycotting African artists, the country’s culture minister has said in response to reports of an order to stop cooperation. French broadcaster BFMTV had reported that a government letter sent to the authorities on Thursday asked to stop collaboration with artists from Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali. “I am extrem...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned of the dangers posed by the unexploded ordnances in the flood-hit eastern Libyan city of Derna. “Unexploded ordnances and abandoned munition stores could also pose an additional challenge to residents, emergency responders, and authorities,” an ICR...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and the country’s central bank decided to donate a total of 2 billion Moroccan dirhams (about $200 million) to the bank account designated for the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck the country last Friday. On Sunday, the Moroccan government announced the establishment of sp...
ANKARA (AA) – More than 38,640 people have been displaced due to devastating floods in Libya, the UN migration agency said on Friday. At least 30,000 individuals were displaced in Derna due to Storm Daniel, with 3,000 in Al-Bayda, 2,595 in Al-Marj, 2,195 in Benghazi, 350 in Soussa, 300 in Almkheley, 200 in Wardeah and […]
GENEVA (AA) – Providing shelter, food, and medical supplies to people in Libya and Morocco who survived two massive lethal natural disasters is the top priority, the UN’s humanitarian affairs chief has said. Speaking at a UN press conference about the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 and the devastating floods in Libya on [&...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisia’s renowned Bardo museum reopened to the public on Thursday, AFP journalists reported, after over two years of closure coinciding with a power grab by President Kais Saied. The largest museum in Tunisia, with collections of rare mosaics and other artefacts housed in a 19th century Ottoman governor’...
Aswan, Egypt – AFP Thousands fleeing war in Sudan have taken refuge in the Egyptian city of Aswan on the Nile, where families are helping keep the tourism industry afloat far from the horrors they left behind. “We finally made it to Aswan,” said Hisham Ali, 54, who reached Egypt after an odyssey that took […]
Imi N’Tala, Morocco – AFP Nine-year-old Moroccan girl Ibtissam Ait Iddar was fortunate to have been rescued from under the rubble, but like other children she remains traumatised by the earthquake that devastated her village. “My father called me and I cried back ‘I’m here, I’m here’,” Ibtissam r...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Four people were killed and 18 others kidnapped during an attack by bandits in Giyawa village in northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto state, police said Thursday. Ahmed Rufai, the state police command’s spokesman, said the assailants also carted away valuables including livestock. He said seven of those abducted later...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two soldiers were killed while four others, including two Somali federal lawmakers, were wounded in a suicide car bomb blast at an army camp in the central state of Galmudug early Friday. The camp located in the village of Las Ga’amey was hosting senior national and regional officials, including […]...
