Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): West Africa’s regional bloc on Wednesday said a military intervention in junta-ruled Niger was “the last resort” as Nigeria cut electricity supplies to intensify pressure on the country’s coup leaders. Military chiefs from the group met on Wednesday to frame a response and a delegation was in Niger...
ISTANBUL (AA): The interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan said Wednesday that it held talks with several countries, including the US and the UK, on a range of subjects in Qatar. Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi is leading a delegation in the Gulf nation’s capital Doha, meeting with representatives from the US, the...
ISTANBUL (AA): Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reiterated Islamabad’s invitation to Türkiye to become part of the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Calling CPEC a “roaring success,” Sharif said it is “bound to increase the quantum of business transactions through sea and land between China and Paki...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked Prime Minister Najla Bouden without explanation Tuesday night and replaced her with former central bank executive Ahmed Hachani, whom he tasked with overcoming the “colossal challenges” facing the cash-strapped North African country. No official explanation was given for Bo...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): France and Italy have begun to prepare to fly out their citizens and other Europeans from Niger, six days after a coup that toppled one of the last pro-Western leaders in the Sahel. President Mohamed Bazoum — a staunch ally of France and other Western countries — was overthrown on July 26 […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AA): The military coup in Niger on July 26 has put the spotlight on the country’s uranium reserves. The European Union has said that the military coup in major uranium producer Niger does not pose a problem for supplies of nuclear fuel for it. “There is no supply risk as such when it […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it will provide $1.2 billion to Yemen to cover its budget deficit. The primary aims of this fresh economic assistance were to assist Yemen in addressing its budget deficit, and strengthen the existing bonds between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. Yemen has been [&hellip...
ROME (AA) – Political instability and climate change are the main causes of hunger and malnutrition in Muslim countries. The head of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS), Yerlan Baidaulet, said that half of the countries facing hunger and malnutrition in the world are Islamic countries. Speaking to Türkiye’s Anadolu news age...
WASHINGTON (AA): US officials met with representatives of the Taliban and “technocratic professionals” in Doha for talks on Sunday and Monday. They urged Afghanistan’s rulers “to reverse policies responsible for the deteriorating human rights situation” in the country, “particularly for women, girls and vulnerable communities...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The director general of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has said that Bangladesh will get the nuclear fuel for its lone nuclear power plant this September. Alexey Likhachev said this during a meeting with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the latter’s office in the capital Dhaka, the premier’s Pres...
