Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Two leading opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied are to be freed after spending more than five months in jail, their defence committee announced Thursday. Chaima Issa, a member of the main opposition coalition the National Salvation Front, was arrested in February along with former minister Lazhar Akremi. Both were ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi held a meeting in Cairo with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to discuss the conflict in Sudan and a dam project on the Nile River. The talks came ahead of a summit of Sudan’s neighboring countries in Cairo on Thursday to discuss means of resolving the Sudanese conflict. […]
ANKARA (AA): At least 87 Sudanese civilians were buried in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur state, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) has said. “The bodies of at least 87 ethnic Masalit and others allegedly killed last month by Rapid Support Forces and their allied militia in West Darfur have been buried in […]
CAIRO (AA): Sudan’s neighboring countries on Thursday agreed in a meeting held in Cairo to establish a ministerial mechanism to stop the fighting between the Sudanese belligerent parties. It came in the final statement of the summit read by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. “It has been agreed on establishing a ministerial m...
Ben Guerdane, Tunisia (AFP): More than 600 migrants forced out of Tunisia’s port of Sfax to the desert borderlands with Libya are being sheltered and given humanitarian aid, the Red Crescent said on Wednesday. However, smaller groups of people remain stranded near the frontiers with Algeria and Libya. Hundreds of migrants from sub-Sahara...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA): The UK government has announced that it has imposed new sanctions on businesses that are fueling the “devastating conflict in Sudan” by providing funding and arms to the warring militias. “These sanctions will ensure that any assets held in the UK by these conglomerates and companies will be frozen,” the Foreign Offic...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): Sudan’s warring sides must face “accountability” for the “crimes” committed in their conflict, which risks spiralling into a regional crisis, the head of UN mission in the country has said. The fighting, which has gone on for three months, “risks morphing into an ethnicised, tribalis...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): A prominent Malian TV and radio journalist has been acquitted of charges that he falsely claimed a former premier had been murdered while in detention under the ruling junta. Mohamed Youssouf Bathily was placed in custody on March 13 after allegedly saying former prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga had not died from [&he...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Sudan has said that it views “positively” an Egyptian initiative to host a summit of neighboring countries to look into ways of resolving the Sudanese conflict. Egypt is set to host a summit of Sudan’s neighbors to discuss means of ending the conflict there. “We look positively at the Egyptian initiative to [&hellip...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday arrived in Kenya, commencing his highly anticipated Africa trip. After meeting with Kenyan leader William Ruto, the two leaders announced revitalizing their diplomatic bonds by inking new agreements. Speaking during a joint media briefing televised nationwide, Raisi said: “The Afri...
