MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s national electoral body on Sunday said its chairman will not get involved in partisan politics or run for the country’s presidency in the general elections early next year. In a statement, Rotimi Oyekanmi, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, describ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Heavily armed unidentified militants launched an attack on a prison in northwest Burkina Faso overnight Saturday, and about 60 inmates managed to escape, local media reported Sunday. The attack at the civilian prison in the town of Nouna, in the province of Kossi in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, left one […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday dismissed Israeli claims about its sovereignty over Jerusalem, saying the city is part of the occupied Palestinian territories. “East Jerusalem, with its Islamic and Christian holy sites, is the eternal capital of the State of Palestine in accordance with international l...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels said Sunday a gas ship held by the Saudi-led coalition was released. Houthis say the vessel carrying 8,259 metric tons of gas was seized by Saudi-led coalition on April 27. “The ship is expected to arrive at al-Hudaydah port within hours,” Ali Measar, a spokesman for the Houthi-run […]
JERUSALEM (AA): Israel has extended the closure on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip until Monday. In a statement, Israel’s military liaison unit to the Palestinians, known as COGAT, said the move was taken after a security evaluation of the situation in the Palestinian territories. The statement said medical and humanitarian cases w...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said the “heinous massacres” committed during the French colonial era in Algeria “can’t be forgotten.” In a message on the 77th anniversary of the massacre which began on May 8, 1945, committed by the French colonial army against Algerian demonstrators, Tebb...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Syrian President Bashar al Assad met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an unannounced one-day visit to Tehran on Sunday, according to local media. It was Assad’s second official visit to Iran since Syria’s civil war erupted in 2011. His last visit was in February 2019. Sunday’s meeting was ...
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 48 people were killed by gunmen in three villages in northwestern Nigeria on Friday, according to local authorities. Aminu Suleiman, a local official in Bakura in Zamfara State, confirmed the attacks on Sunday, saying that bandits on motorcycles attacked people in Sabon Gari, Damri, and Kalahe, local media reported. Nig...
SANAA, Yemen (AA): UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg has welcomed the release of Houthi prisoners by the Saudi-led coalition. On Friday May 6, dozens of Houthi prisoners were freed as part of a humanitarian initiative by Saudi Arabia to “support peace efforts” in Yemen. “I welcome the release of detainees by the Saudi-led coalition, [&hel...
RAMALLAH, PALESTINE: Israeli forces raided the village of Silat al-Harithiya in the West Bank city of Jenin, destroying the house of a Palestinian Omar Jaradat, who was accused of killing an Israeli settler last year. Clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces following the demolition. Hapless Palestinians threw stones and firebom...
