CAIRO, Egypt – The civil war has devastated health and sanitation infrastructure in the war-torn country of Sudan, according to Save the Children, an international non-government organization. The organization has warned that Sudan is at risk of major disease outbreaks. Residents report that the capital, Khartoum, is littered with bodie...
NAIROBI, Kenya / KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Niger’s junta on Wednesday accused French troops of breaching the country’s airspace and plotting to destabilize the West African nation. The accusation came amid growing tensions following the recent military coup in Niger that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum from power. In a statement issued ...
WASHINGTON (AA): The Sudanese government threatened to end the UN mission in the war-torn country if Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ envoy briefed the Security Council, the US said Wednesday. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Washington’s UN envoy, said it “was really outrageous” for Sudan to jeopardize the mission because o...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): The coup that shook Niger nearly two weeks ago triggered an international outcry and curbs on domestic freedoms, yet many people in the capital say the change is a breath of fresh air. Around 30,000 people turned out on Sunday for a rally in a Niamey stadium to support the soldiers who […]
ROME (AA): Forty-one migrants are believed to have died last week in a shipwreck in the central Mediterranean after leaving Tunisia, Italian prosecutors and local media said on Wednesday, citing accounts by survivors who reached the Italian island of Lampedusa. Italian media reported that four survivors told rescuers they were traveling on a 7...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): Doctors in Nigeria called off nationwide public protests scheduled for Wednesday after the government agreed to their demands for pay raises and better working conditions. National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) President Emeka Orji told the media over the phone that the protests were called off after the gover...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): War-torn Sudan is at risk of major disease outbreaks, with thousands of unburied corpses remaining out in the open and the country’s health and sanitation infrastructure destroyed, Save the Children warned Tuesday. Residents say Khartoum is littered with dead bodies from fighting between the forces of army chief Abdel...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Niger’s military junta has blocked officials from the African Union, a West African regional bloc and the UN from visiting the country, a letter by the Foreign Ministry seen Tuesday showed, foiling the latest diplomatic attempts to reinstate the country’s ousted president. Diplomats from the African Union, the UN and the E...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Mali and Burkina Faso asked the UN and African Union on Tuesday to prevent by all possible means any military intervention in Niger, where the military deposed an elected president last month. In a joint letter addressed to the African Union Peace and Security Council and the UN Security Council, the foreign […]
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Fourteen Sierra Leonean soldiers, three current and former police officers and two civilians have been arrested and are under investigation for “subversion”, while a manhunt is underway for eight others, the inspector general said Tuesday. Last week police said they had arrested several people who were...
