ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has voiced concern over the current tense situation in Sudan following a delay in the signing of a final agreement to resolve the country’s months-long political crisis. In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Sudan’s rivals to work to overcome obstacles to civilian […...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Amid rising political tensions in Pakistan, President Arif Alvi has refused to sign a legislation recently approved by the parliament that limits some key powers of the country’s top judge. The President’s Office said in a statement that Alvi has returned the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill, 2023, to the parl...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz pleaded not guilty to corruption charges when he appeared for questioning Thursday in a court in the capital Nouakchott. Aziz, 66, faces multiple charges including illicit enrichment, abuse of office, influence peddling and money laundering along with nine other d...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Pro-democracy activists in Sudan marched against the army and paramilitaries Thursday as the civilian opposition marked a key anniversary in the decades-old struggle against military rule with new protests. April 6 is a symbolic date for Sudan’s civilian opposition — the anniversary of uprisings in 1985 and 2...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has said that the signing of an agreement to resume the country’s democratic transition was delayed with the intention of “laying solid framework that maintains the momentum and vigor of the revolution.” On Wednesday, the opposition Forces of Freedom and Change coalit...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday overturned the country’s electoral authority’s decision to postpone elections in a key province. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial had reserved the judgment on Monday after over a week-long hearing. It ordered t...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Sierra Leone has banned political street rallies, a tradition that has for decades characterised electoral campaigns, less than three months before the presidential election, the government said Monday. Election periods are “no time for dancing and merriment”, but rather “times for deep reflectio...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon is ready to hold municipal elections next month, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has announced. “I am bound by law to hold elections, and I am convinced that these elections must be held on time,” Mawlawi told a press conference as quoted by the National News Agency on Monday. He […]...
Jizzakh, Uzbekistan (AFP): On stage in front of a few hundred people, an entertainer desperately tries to sell a controversial April referendum that could extend the rule of Uzbekistan’s autocratic leader until 2040. The April 30 vote is on a constitutional amendment that would introduce seven-year presidential terms and allow President ...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Sudanese leaders have postponed the signing of an agreement to resume a short-lived democratic transition, an official said on Saturday, amid continued disagreement between military factions. A coup in October 2021 led by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had derailed the transition to civilian-led rule that began follow...
