Egypt unveils $53B Gaza rebuilding plan
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OVIEDO, Spain (AA): Human Rights Watch has slammed Spain and Morocco for failing to credibly investigate the Melilla border tragedy a year ago, claiming there has been “no justice” for those who lost their lives. “Both Spain and Morocco have exonerated their security forces following flawed or insufficient investigations into the violence at t...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Alie used to work eight hours a day driving a commercial tuk-tuk in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown but as fuel prices soar he now finds himself working 18-hour days just to make ends meet. “Everything is going uphill — there are no jobs, and (problems with) the electricity and water supply,̶...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Clashes resumed on Wednesday between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group after the expiry of a 3-day cease-fire, according to witnesses. Sounds of artillery shelling were heard in Bahri, north of the capital Khartoum, with billows of smoke seen rising from the area. Jet fighters were al...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): Multiple casualties are feared after two huge bomb blasts rocked Somalia’s southwestern town of Bardhere in the Gedo region on Wednesday. The explosions targeted a base housing the Somali national army and Ethiopia’s forces serving under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), according to State Minist...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Sierra Leoneans will vote in tense elections on Saturday, with President Julius Maada Bio hoping to secure a second term despite a crippling economic crisis which sparked deadly protests last year. The West African country, which never fully recovered economically from a 1991-2002 civil war and the Ebola epidemic ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Two people were killed and 31 others injured in a train derailment in eastern Tunisia, according to local media on Wednesday. A driver and his assistant were killed when a train on the Tunis-Gabes route derailed late Tuesday, state radio reported. The cause of the accident was not yet clear. Tunisia has seen […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): Algerian President Abdelmajid Tebboune on Tuesday sacked Communication Minister Mohamed Bouslimani and asked the Ministry’s Secretary General to temporarily run its affairs. The Algerian Presidency didn’t provide details on the reasons for removing Bouslimani, but the incident took place shortly after a local...
Nairobi, Kenya (AFP): The head of the UN’s refugee agency on Tuesday urged Sudan’s neighbours to keep their borders open despite security worries. Filippo Grandi warned in an interview with AFP that the two-month-old war threatened to spread insecurity in the “fragile” nations that border Sudan. “My appeal to all ...
Nairobi, Kenya (AFP): The head of the UN’s refugee agency Filippo Grandi said on Tuesday that more than 500,000 people have fled the fighting in Sudan. “Today we pass the mark of half a million refugees from Sudan following the beginning of the conflict,” he said at a press conference in Nairobi. “Two million people [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA): There is an air of mourning in Bandli, a small village nestled among lush green hills in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Grief has gripped this village since last week’s shipwreck off the coast of Greece, a tragedy that has likely claimed the lives of hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers. Bandli and its people are […]
