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Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Warring generals in Sudan have agreed to extend by five days a humanitarian ceasefire they repeatedly violated and which failed to deliver promised aid corridors. Residents told AFP they could hear gunfire after dark on Monday, shortly before the ceasefire extension was announced. Earlier, they reported street battles in...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): Long-time political kingmaker Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as Nigerian president, succeeding Muhammadu Buhari, a former general who stepped down after two terms in office. The 71-year-old southerner takes over from the 80-year-old northerner as Africa’s most populous nation faces a sea of economic troubles and a se...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Gunfire rang out Sunday in the Sudanese capital, adding to truce violations which United States and Saudi mediators said hindered the delivery of desperately needed aid. Witnesses in Khartoum told AFP they could hear “shooting in the south of the city”, on the sixth day of the one-week ceasefire which expires...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA): Calm prevailed in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Monday after overnight clashes between rival militias. In a statement, the Tripoli Security Directorate said all roads in central Tripoli were reopened following the clashes. It, however, did not provide any details about the damage. The government-run Ambulance and Emergency...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): The governor of war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, Mini Minawi, on Sunday called on citizens there to “take up arms”, six weeks into the brutal conflict. Much of the heaviest fighting has raged in the capital Khartoum and in Darfur, near the border with Chad, since the conflict erupted on April 15....
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Somalia’s government and federal member states said Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elections set for June 2024. The move follows a pledge by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in March to end a complex indirect system in place since 1969. “The basic principles should be t...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Clashes continue between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum despite a ceasefire agreement. A 7-day ceasefire came into force between the rivals on May 22 following talks between the two conflicting parties in Saudi Arabia. On Friday, Saudi Arabia and the United ...
Kano, Nigeria (AFP): Incoming Nigerian president Bola Tinubu faces significant security challenges as violence has resurfaced following a lull for elections. Attacks or kidnappings by criminals known as “bandits” in the northwest and centre are common. While in the northeast there is an insurgency by militants, in the southeast the...
New York, United States (AFP): United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was “shocked” by a letter from Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reportedly requesting the replacement of special envoy Volker Perthes amid a brutal war with paramilitaries. Guterres “is proud of the work done by Volker Perthes and reaffirm...
ISTANBUL (AA): The US Treasury Department has accused Russia’s private paramilitary company Wagner Group of providing missiles to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and “contributing to a prolonged armed conflict.” Earlier on Thursday when the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Wagner’s head in Mali, Ivan Aleksan...
