Kano, Nigeria (AFP): When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north, [&hel...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians will vote for a successor to President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in an unprecedented race between three frontrunners battling to govern Africa’s most populous democracy. After eight years under Buhari, Nigeria still faces huge challenges, from attacks by militants and separatists, a sluggish economy and...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian police have summoned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi for questioning, his movement said on Monday. Ennahda spokesman Imad Al-Hamiri said Ghannouchi will appear before investigators on Tuesday. No information was yet available about the purpose of the investigation. “There is no reason for summoning G...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): When Tolulope Akande-Sadipe decided to run for a second term to represent her constituency in Nigeria’s parliament, she knew her life could be in danger. During the last elections in 2019, when former army general Muhammadu Buhari won the presidency for a second and last term allowed by the constitution, her campaig...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition has slammed a string of “repressive” arrests mainly targeting critics of President Kais Saied, including members of the progressive Islamic Ennahdha movement. Police in the North African country — birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings — have arrested...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s progressive Islamic mainstream opposition movement Ennahda has condemned what it called the systematic abuse of critics in the North African country amid a months-long political crisis. Tunisian security forces have detained Ennahda leader and former Justice Minister Noureddine Bhiri and director of Mosaique Rad...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu, 74, has been declared as the next president-elect of Bangladesh by the country’s Election Commission. Speaking to reporters in the capital Dhaka, Election Commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal said that the ruling Awami League (AL) party nominee Shahabuddin was elected unopposed as the 22nd presid...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso — AFP Foreign ministers from three West African countries that have undergone military coups have called for their reinstatement into two key regional blocs following a trip to the region by Russian envoy Sergei Lavrov. The top diplomats of Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso said in a joint statement that they had [&...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s president has resorted to intimidating the nation’s people, the head of a major labor union in the country said on Friday. “President Kais Saied chose the path of intimidating the people and calling them, directly or indirectly, to fight,” Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi said a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives voted along party lines Thursday to remove one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from her seat on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The 218-211 vote saw all Democrats vote in opposition to removing Ilhan Omar from the panel. Nearly all of the chamber’s [&hel...
