KAMPALA, Uganda / JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Ugandan armed forces have killed 567 members of the ISIS-affiliated rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo since December 2021, President Yoweri Museveni said in an address on Thursday night. The ISIS-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group, which has been fighting to ove...
DOHA, Qatar (AA/AFP) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani discussed developments in war-torn Sudan on Thursday with Sudanese de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, according to the Qatari state news agency QNA. In a meeting in Doha, Sheikh Tamim reiterated Qatar’s call for warring rivals to stop “the fighting in Sud...
NIAMEY, NIGER – Hundreds of protestors gathered in Niger’s capital Niamey on Thursday in the latest protests against the presence of French troops in the West African country, where the military ousted the elected yet unpopular president more than a month ago. Along with hundreds of protesters, Nigerien singer Aichatou Ali Soumaila also ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – A court in Nigeria has rejected a request by the country’s main opposition parties to nullify the victory of Bola Ahmed Tinubu in February’s presidential election. The Presidential Election Petition Court in a judgement announced Wednesday in the capital Abuja said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Par...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The chairman of Morocco’s House of Councillors, the country’s senate, delayed his visit to Israel due to a health emergency, the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) said late on Wednesday. Enaam Mayara’s first-ever visit to Israel was scheduled to start on Thursday upon an invitation by the Knesset Speak...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned a high-ranking leader and a regional commander within Sudan’s Rapid Security Forces (RSF). Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, the senior RSF official, is being sanctioned for the RSF’s “acts of violence and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Ennahda Movement said on Wednesday that Tunisian security forces had detained two of its leading members. The progressive Islamic party stated that Abdel Karim Harouni, a former minister and head of the movement’s Shura Council, was arrested late Tuesday. It also stated that Mondher Ounissi, the party’s vi...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco said Wednesday that it plans to launch a green hydrogen project next year amid a growing global demand for clean energy. Green hydrogen is a sustainable and environmentally friendly form of energy produced through the electrolysis of water using renewable energy sources such as wind or solar power. In a [&he...
– African countries have comparative advantage in renewables such as abundance of solar, wind, and geothermal resources, say analysts KAMPALA, Uganda, (AA) – As the Africa Climate Week kickstarts in Nairobi, Kenya, analysts have said the continent can offer solutions to the global environmental crisis. Katongole Hadija, who teaches...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called Tuesday for measures to slow the birthrate in the Arab world’s most populous country, citing China’s one-child policy as an example. “We need 400,000 births per year,” said the leader of the country of 105 million inhabitants which recorded nearly ...
