Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Loud explosions again rocked greater Khartoum on Wednesday, as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals showed no let-up despite talks in Saudi Arabia. “We were woken by explosions and heavy artillery fire,” one resident of Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman told AFP. During the night, two huge e...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Senegal’s opposition coalition said Tuesday it would stage rallies over a threat to bar one of its leaders, Ousmane Sonko, from presidential elections after he was convicted in a defamation case. Sonko was on Monday handed a six-month suspended term that could jeopardise his bid for the 2024 elections. His possible ...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – At least 17 children died when the boat they were traveling in capsized Tuesday in the Dandeji River in the Shagari Local Government Area of northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto State. An official of the state government, Aluyu Dantani, told Anadolu that their bodies were recovered by local divers. He said they were [&helli...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The African Union Commission (AUC) has welcomed the announcement by Mali’s transitional authorities to hold a referendum on a new constitution in June. The constitutional referendum in the West African country will be held on June 18, according to a presidential decree. The new draft constitution intends to ...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Heavy fighting in Sudan has led to 700,000 people being internally displaced since the middle of April, the United Nations has said, adding that the figure had doubled in a week. “There are now more than 700,000 internally displaced by the fighting which began on April 15,” Paul Dillon, spokesman for the ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Ceasefire talks in Saudi Arabia between Sudan’s warring generals have yielded “no major progress” so far, a Saudi official told AFP, dampening hopes for a quick end to the fighting. Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who heads the param...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): A Senegalese court on Monday handed opposition figure Ousmane Sonko a six-month suspended sentence in an appeal of a defamation case that could jeopardise his run for president next year. Sonko, 48, came third in the 2019 presidential election and intends to stand again in 2024, but two court cases could ruin […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigerian Presidential Election Petition Court in Abuja began hearing petitions on Monday challenging Bola Ahmad Tinubu’s victory in the February presidential election. The five-member tribunal panel led by Justice Haruna Tsammani has announced that it will begin its pre-hearing session with three petitions challe...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $100 million in humanitarian aid to Sudan amid ongoing clashes between two military rivals. More than 550 people have been killed and thousands injured in fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group since April 15, according to Sudan’s Health Ministry. Sa...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): When a maternity hospital in the Sudanese capital came under bombardment, Esraa Hesbalrasoul snatched her premature twins from an incubator and rushed out in a panic. In the chaos, only one of the infants survived. Hesbalrasoul now tends to her baby in a small hospital in the capital’s twin city of Omdurman that [&...
