Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Morocco’s highest court has rejected the final appeals of two journalists — Omar Radi and Soulaimane Raissouni. The two were imprisoned on sexual assault charges, and reject the allegations, according to their lawyer. The Court of Cassation in Rabat “rejected our appeal and confirmed the prison sentences...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The African country of Somalia, which had been plagued by extreme drought for 40 years, is now struggling with rains and flooding. The United Nations has called for urgent humanitarian action to help Somalia. The drought had killed 40,000 people in the country. Now, floods have displaced thousands and destroyed wha...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): At least 34 people were killed in a traffic accident early Wednesday morning in Algeria’s Tamanrasset southern province, according to a statement by the Algerian civil defense. There was “a collision between a bus transporting passengers and a car,” the civil defense said, adding that the bus caught fire. As many a...
GENEVA (AA): EU faces challenges as arrivals increase and applications for asylum reach record highs, the executive director of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has said. Presenting Asylum Report 2023 on figures of last year to the European Parliament, Nina Gregori said it was “quite dramatic and unprecedented year.” In ...
ISTANBUL (AA): China’s President Xi Jinping on Tuesday hosted visiting Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune for bilateral talks in Beijing, pledging to “deepen exchanges and cooperation.” “Sixty-five years ago, China and Algeria were brought together by the common cause of opposing imperialism and colonialism and see...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Israel has recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara region, Moroccan authorities announced on Monday. This came in a message Moroccan King Mohammed VI received from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Moroccan Royal Court said that the letter stated “the decision of the Israeli Prime ...
Al ‘Assah, Libya (AFP): Libyan border guards rescued dozens of migrants left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water and food, an officer said Sunday. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were forcibly taken to desert and hostile areas bordering Libya and Algeria after racial unrest in early July in Sfax, T...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): At least five civilians were killed in western Sudan over the weekend, a doctors association said on Monday. “Five people were killed and 17 others were seriously injured, as a result of projectiles hitting the Ombada Al-Sabil neighborhood,” the Ombada Committees said. The number of casualties may increase as many people ...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA): Clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have forced over 19,000 refugees to relocate to neighboring South Sudan, the UN has said in a report. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in South Sudan said over the weekend that the number of arrivals […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Nine people were killed and four others injured in a building collapse in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Monday, according to local media. A 4-storey building collapsed in Hadayek el Kobba neighborhood in Cairo, Youm7 newspaper reported. Civil defense forces rushed to the site of the collapsed building to extract the victims fr...
