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Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia and Japan launched a pan-African investment conference on Saturday, seeking to counter the influence of rival China whose economic imprint on the continent has steadily grown. The conference takes place amid a “complex” international environment caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine...
ANKARA (AA) – Frank McKenzie, who led US Central Command from 2019 to April 2022, has said that Washington engaged in failed nation-building in Afghanistan and insisted on a Western model for the country which was completely wrong. “We began to engage in nation-building operations and maybe some of that was necessary in a narrower ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Somalia has renewed its bid to join the East African Community (EAC), a seven-nation intergovernmental bloc that the country had been seeking membership of for over 50 years. The bloc had rejected Somalia’s application over a decade ago in March 2012, citing sporadic conflicts and weak institutions. However, with t...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia summoned its ambassador from Morocco on Saturday amid a dispute over a visit to the North African nation by the head of the Polisario Front that is seeking independence of the Western Sahara. The move came one day after Morocco recalled its envoy from Tunisia in protest of a meeting […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA/AFP) – A civilian was killed and another injured in clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday. Emergency services spokesman Osama Ali reported that Mustafa Baraka, a comedian, was killed in the clashes that erupted in several areas in the capital. No information was yet available about casualti...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Hundreds of Iranians attended a funeral service in Tehran on Friday for the country’s best-known contemporary poet, Hushang Ebtehaj, who died earlier this month aged 94. Ebtehaj, whose Persian pen name was Sayeh (the Shadow), shot to fame composing lyrical poems themed on love and solitude, as well as reflections on t...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday the fate of a revived nuclear deal is up to Iran, and that an agreement would be “useful” even if it doesn’t settle everything. Asked during a visit to Algeria about the chances of success in reviving the 2015 agreement between Tehran and world powers, Macro...
Syria (AFP): Kurdish forces said Friday they had arrested dozens of suspects at a camp in Syria housing relatives of Islamic State group members. Al-Hol is the largest camp for displaced people who fled after ISIS was dislodged from its last scrap of Syrian territory in 2019 by Kurdish-led forces backed by a US-led coalition. […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The stateless Rohingya refugees living in congested camps in Bangladesh’s district of Cox’s Bazar have lauded the UK’s decision to intervene in their case against Myanmar before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The UK announcement has given persecuted Rohingya Muslims in the country and aroun...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has signed an agreement with Nigeria to return ownership of over 500 looted Benin bronze artifacts. The deal signed by the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage and Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments will see almost a third of the artifacts remain in German museums on loan, while the rest […...
