GENEVA (AA): The EU on Friday condemned the attack by al-Shabaab on a base of African Union forces in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region. “This latest attack against soldiers conducting peace support operations in Somalia only reinforces our commitment to stand with the region and to hold to account those responsible for these continuously ...
TORONTO (AA): Sporadic clashes continue in Sudan despite a short-term cease-fire between the warring parties, a UN spokesperson said Friday. “The latest information is that there’s still some sporadic fighting. We are not officially monitoring the truce,” Stephane Dujarric said at his press briefing when asked about the statu...
Ziguinchor, Senegal (AFP): Ousmane Sonko, the popular Senegalese opposition leader facing a rape trial, said Wednesday that he would lead a “caravan of freedom” across the country as he travels to face judges in Dakar. Sonko, who has a keen following among Senegal’s large youth population, has branded the trial a political pl...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Rival Libyan groups reached an agreement on long-awaited presidential and legislative elections in the country during a meeting in Morocco. The Libyan Joint Committee ‘6+6’, formed jointly by Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council for the preparation of electoral laws, has made an announcement ...
ANKARA (AA): Egypt has denied Ethiopian claims of reaching an agreement on the period of filling a hydroelectric dam being built on the Nile River. Egypt and Ethiopia have been logged in a years-long dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, a tributary of the Nile River. Egypt views the […]...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting between Sudan’s warring generals has displaced more than one million people inside the country since it erupted on April 15, the International Organization for Migration said Wednesday. A further 319,000 people have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN agency added. It said more than 132,000 ref...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a memorandum of understanding with the International University of Rabat in the field of artificial intelligence and aeronautics research, according to the Israeli liaison office on Wednesday. The deal aims to establish a center of excellence in artificial intelligence and aeronauti...
Nairobi, Kenya (AFP): More than a million Somalis have been displaced within their own country in just over four months through a “toxic” mix of drought, conflict and floods, humanitarian agencies said Wednesday. Around 433,000 people were forced from their homes between January 1 and May 10 as a grinding insurgency raged and clash...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting had eased but not stopped in Sudan on Wednesday, the second full day of a ceasefire that has raised cautious hopes among beleaguered civilians that aid corridors and escape routes will open soon. Sporadic air strikes and artillery fire have still echoed across the capital, residents told AFP, but US and [&hellip...
Conakry, Guinea (AFP): Private media and online outlets in the West African state of Guinea on Tuesday launched a one-day boycott of news in protest at press and internet restrictions by the ruling junta. Espace TV and Kalac TV posted an image of two hands pushing apart steel bars against a backdrop of the national […]
