NEW YORK (AA) – About 100,000 children have been affected by the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco last Friday, the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) said Monday. ”While UNICEF doesn’t yet know the exact number of children killed and injured, the latest estimates from 2022 indicate that children represent almost a third of ...
ANKARA (AA) – France has dismissed reports that Morocco rejected Paris’ offer of financial assistance to help people affected by the massive earthquake, saying the North African country is sovereign and can choose which peer’s assistance to accept. “Morocco, which is a sovereign country… chose to prioritize the arrival ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed, including a lawmaker and a local municipality staffer, in a bomb blast in Somalia’s central state of Galmudug on Monday. The attack took place in El-Garas town, which the Somali National Army said to have liberated from al-Shabaab fighters with the help of locals. Mohamed...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The head of Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has declared three days of national mourning for the victims of deadly floods that have ravaged the North African country. Speaking during a Cabinet meeting in Tripoli, Dbeibeh said flags will be flown at half-staff on all public buildings duri...
Talat Nyacoub, Morocco — AFP Moroccan rescuers supported by newly-arrived foreign teams faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages, on the third day after the country’s strongest-ever earthquake. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the Atlas mountains late Friday southwest of th...
Milestone achievement follows the enactment of legislation in June, which paves the way for Shariah-compliant financial activities within the country KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda’s central bank has taken a significant step in bolstering its financial landscape by issuing its inaugural Islamic banking license. This milestone achievement follo...
A group close to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on the military posts BAMAKO, Mali – A suicide attack was carried out Friday at a military base in the landlocked West African nation of Mali. The attack occurred just one day after deadly attacks by terrorists on an army camp and a passenger […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The death toll from a deadly earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,497 people, according to the country’s Interior Ministry on Monday. In a statement, the ministry said 2,476 other people were injured in the magnitude-7 earthquake that jolted the North African country late Friday. The United States Geological Survey (USGS)...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – At least 40 people were killed in an airstrike on a marketplace in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, according to an activist group. In a statement, the Emergency Room group said the attack targeted an open market in Mayo neighborhood in South Khartoum. It was not yet clear who was […]
Dakar, Senegal – AFP Senegal President Macky Sall on Saturday designated Prime Minister Amadou Ba as the ruling party’s candidate for the 2024 presidential elections, presidential and governmental sources said. Sall, who took power in 2012 and was re-elected in 2019, announced in July after months of political uncertainty that he w...
