Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Police in Sierra Leone fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters on Sunday evening, authorities said, as voters awaited the results of a fiercely fought general election. Opposition All People’s Congress (APC) presidential candidate Samura Kamara said on Twitter that live bullets had a...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): At least 14 civilians have been killed in war-torn Sudan’s capital as rival forces are locked in a key battle over control of the Khartoum police headquarters, activists said Monday. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which since mid-April has been fighting Sudan’s regular army, announced late Sunda...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): Al-Shabaab men executed five civilians on Sunday in southeastern Kenya. The attack took place in Salama and Juhudi villages in Lamu County, which shares a porous border with Somalia. Lamu County Commissioner Louis Rono confirmed the deaths, saying police were still determining the extent of the carnage. The attack by the S...
ISTANBUL (AA): Egypt and India on Sunday signed a declaration to raise their cooperation to strategic partnership. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Cairo on Saturday on his first visit to Egypt for talks on ways of enhancing relations between the two countries. On Sunday, Modi met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi wher...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Vote tallying was underway in Sierra Leone on Sunday, the electoral commission said, following fiercely fought elections that were mostly calm despite significant delays in some areas. Tallying, which consists of adding up counted ballots from each polling unit at the regional level, would take place in the capita...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Artillery fire, air strikes and gun battles rocked Sudan’s capital on Saturday, witnesses told AFP, as the UN urged a stop to “wanton killings” that have left decomposing bodies in Darfur. While fighting rages, relief efforts have stalled after more than two months of fighting between rival generals. Ho...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA): The UN Security Council will vote on June 30 on whether the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali will continue. Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop called for the immediate termination of MINUSMA at the UN Security Council session on June 16. Diop explained the reason for the withdrawal request as a “crisis of [&...
ISTANBUL (AA): Malik Shiraz is frantically searching for his brothers in Kalamata, a small town on the southern Greek coast engulfed in a frenzy since last week’s deadly migrant shipwreck. “It was such a small boat. Why did the agents put so many people on it?” he asked, desperation palpable in his voice. By “agents” […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has announced that the second Negev Summit which was scheduled for July would be held in September “if the context is favorable,” according to media reports. “We hope that the context will be favorable to the holding of this important event,” Bourita said at a news conference ...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Malian voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum, marking a key step in the ruling junta’s declared plans to restore civilian rule, provisional results showed Friday. The military has made the draft constitution a cornerstone for the rebuilding of Mali. Ninety-seven percent of the refe...
