Egypt unveils $53B Gaza rebuilding plan
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Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s state prosecutor on Friday appealed against a judge’s decision to release opposition figure Chaima Issa four months after she was detained for “plotting” against the state, her lawyers said. Issa would have walked free following a decision taken by a judge from the counterterrorism court ...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has voiced deep concern that the crackdown on freedoms in Tunisia is now targeting journalists. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said vague legislation was being used to criminalise independent journalism and stifle criticism of the authorities. “It is troubling to see Tunisia, a country tha...
Sewekhaye, Senegal (AFP): An outbreak of violence in Senegal is having a ricochet effect on the country’s sheep herders ahead of the Muslim festival of sacrifice- the Eid al Adha. The deadliest clashes in years broke out in the capital Dakar on June 1 after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two years’ jail, […...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Voters in Sierra Leone will go to the polls on Saturday in the country’s general elections to elect a president, MPs and local councils. Thirteen candidates are in the race for the president in the West African country. Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), who was […]
Maiduguri, Nigeria (AFP): Camps for people fleeing conflict in northeast Nigeria have become overwhelmed after the authorities closed a dozen of the sites over the past year to try to prompt families to return home. For Aisha Usman, who is among those displaced by violence, the situation has made it harder and harder to feed […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): A group of rich nations and development banks have pledged €2.5 billion ($2.74 billion) to help Senegal reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, President Macky Sall announced Thursday at a summit in Paris. “Senegal will receive €2.5 billion in funding from international partners in order to increase the renewable energies i...
Paris, France (AFP): Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a criminal complaint in France for “crimes against humanity” against President Macky Sall, his lawyer said, as well as requesting a probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Sall was in Paris on Thursday and Friday for a global climate finance summit c...
Timbuktu, Mali (AFP): Noisy motorbikes pass through the streets and in the market, as customers saunter between the stands. It seems like just another day in Timbuktu — the northern Malian city whose name resonates from the Sahel’s glorious Islamic past to its conflict-ridden present as a result of foreign intervention and the rise...
ANKARA (AA): The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged the warring parties in Sudan to lay down their arms in a cease-fire ahead of the Muslim religious festival of Eid Al-Adha. In a statement, Hissein Brahim Taha, secretary-general of the Muslim bloc, “appealed to all warring parties in Sudan to work towards a comprehensiv...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP): Ethiopia is preparing to launch the fourth filling of its mega-dam reservoir on the Blue Nile, the country’s deputy prime minister has announced, despite opposition from its downstream neighbour Egypt. The massive $4.2 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been at the centre of a regional dispute...
