Dakar, Senegal – (AFP) Senegal’s main opposition leader has called for a fresh demonstration to be held on June 29, despite the previous one being banned and the ensuing clashes that left three dead. Ousmane Sonko, who came third in the last presidential election, also called on citizens to “bang pots and pans” in prote...
Beirut, Lebanon – (AFP) Prime Minister Najib Mikati has said that Lebanon is ready to expel Syrian refugees living in the country if the international community does not work to repatriate them. Lebanon, grappling with its worst ever economic crisis, has the world’s highest proportion of refugees in its population, with the governm...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s government said late Monday that the eighth and last body of a group of miners who were reported missing in April had been found, bringing to an end more than two months of searching in a zinc mine. The miners were reported missing on April 16 in the Perkoa […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 13 Syrian regime soldiers were killed when their bus came under attack on Monday, according to the state news agency SANA. SANA said the attack took place in the northern countryside of Raqqa province, which is controlled by the PKK. Two other soldiers were injured in the attack. Several buses […]
Bamako, Mali – (AFP): Militants massacred more than 130 civilians over the weekend in central Mali towns, the latest mass killings in the troubled Sahel region. Local officials reported scenes of systematic killings by armed men in Diallassagou and two surrounding towns in the Bankass circle, a longtime hotbed of Sahelian violence. ̶...
Guwahati, India – (AFP) At least 26 more people have died in monsoon flooding and lightning strikes in India, as millions remained marooned in the country and neighbouring Bangladesh, authorities said Monday. Floods are a regular menace in India and Bangladesh, but experts say climate change is increasing their frequency, ferocity and un...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP) Hundreds demonstrated on Sunday in Tunisia’s capital against a planned referendum on constitutional changes and President Kais Saied’s recent firing of dozens of judges. The new constitution is the centrepiece of reform plans by Saied and is set to go to referendum on July 25, exactly one year after he ...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – (AFP) The Palestinian Authority on Sunday called on Israel to hand over the gun that allegedly fired the shot which killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh was shot and killed on May 11 while covering an Israeli army operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has hailed South Africa and Spain’s Catalonia region over their criticism of Israeli “crimes” against Palestinians. In a statement, Hamas said it appreciates the South African call for the international community “to hold Israel accountable for its crimes and violations against the...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is facing new inflows of asylum seekers from neighboring Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, according to the UN refugee agency. Speaking on the eve of the World Refugees Day, observed June 20 every year, Qaiser Khan Afridi, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refuge...
