ABUJA, Nigeria (AA): Gunmen killed nine farmers in northern Nigeria, local media reported Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday in the Birnin Gwari Area of Kaduna State, which has been facing attacks from armed gangs in recent times. A total of 214 people lost their lives and 746 were kidnapped in attacks carried out […]
Nouakchott, Mauritania GMT (AFP): The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday, a litmus test for the veteran head of state ahead of next year’s presidential poll. The elections were the first since 2019, when President Mohamed Ou...
Washington, United States (AFP): Warring sides in Sudan have reached an agreement for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, the United States and Saudi Arabia said Saturday in a joint statement after talks in Jeddah. Representatives from both army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed not to s...
ISTANBUL (AA): Qatar has condemned the storming and vandalising of its embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as clashes continue in the African nation between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. In a statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said the embassy building was stormed by irregular armed forces. “T...
Nigeria (AA): The death toll from this week’s attacks on two communities in Nigeria’s central Plateau State has risen to 125, according to a local official. Joseph Gwankat, the national leader of the affected community, shared that additional bodies were discovered on Friday in nearby bushes and farmlands, four days after gunmen in...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA): Two US embassy workers kidnapped in Nigeria on Tuesday have been rescued, police said Friday. Police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga said in a statement the US mission staff abducted on a major road in southeast Anambra State were rescued early Friday unhurt by a joint security team. “In the early hours of Friday, […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): A Tunisian court on Thursday released two students arrested earlier this week for a song criticising police, shortly after President Kais Saied denounced their detention as “unacceptable” amid a public outcry. Dhia Nassir and Youssef Chalbi, aged 26 and 27, were arrested on Monday in the town of Nabeul, east o...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): Suspected separatists carried out the ambush on a US consulate convoy in southern Nigeria earlier this week that killed three local staff and four security escorts, police said on Thursday. Gunmen opened fire on the two vehicles on Tuesday in southeastern Anambra State, in a region where the outlawed Indigenous People of ...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian journalists on Thursday protested against “repressive” anti-terror laws they say are being used to intimidate the media after a broadcaster was jailed for five years earlier this week. Dozens of protesters gathered in front of the national union of journalists’ headquarters in the capital Tunis,...
Jos, Nigeria (AFP): More than 3,000 people have been displaced in central Nigeria after at least 85 people were killed in ongoing clashes between herders and farmers, officials said Thursday. The violence erupted on Monday, with an initial death toll of 30, in several villages of Plateau State, an area which has struggled with ethnic […...
