RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – For 106 days, Palestinian Ahmad Hreish from the West Bank city of Ramallah has languished in a prison in Jericho known locally as “the slaughterhouse,” where Palestinian political detainees are sent and tortured by the forces of the “Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS).” Hreish’s family shar...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Ennahda deputy leader Ali Laarayedh has condemned terrorism accusations by the government against the opposition as an attempt to “distract” attention away from economic woes. Tunisian judicial authorities summoned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi and Laarayedh for questioning on Monday regarding accusations of sending Tu...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Hundreds of people took to the streets of Niger capital Niamey on Sunday to protest against the presence of French troops in the country. During the protest, which was organized by civil society organizations operating under the umbrella of the M62 movement, they marched from Toumo Square to the National Assembly. [&helli...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The interim Afghan government and the US have swapped prisoners under the Doha Agreement, an official announced on Monday. The last Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo prison, Haji Bashar Noorzai, was handed over to acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi at Kabul airport, said Hafiz Zia Ahmad, deputy spokesman for the Foreign Min...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A Pakistan court on Monday quashed terrorism charges against former Prime Minister Imran Khan for “threatening” a judge and police officials. A two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah ordered the police to remove the terrorism charges against Khan. In his speech during a ...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AA) – The death toll from recent border clashes between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan rose to 59, Kyrgyzstan’s Health Ministry said on Monday. In a statement it said another 13 bodies were brought to medical facilities in Kyrgyzstan’s Batken region, where fighting at a disputed section of the border started on Wedn...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall Saturday named Amadou Ba as the country’s prime minister, the presidency announced on Saturday. Sall had abolished the prime minister post following his reelection in 2019. Last year, he cited his duties as the chairman of the African Union to justify the restoration of the position bu...
LONDON (AA) – The controversy over the right to protest in the UK has come under the spotlight since the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The British police’s handling of anti-monarchy protesters has been severely criticized. British police arrested a woman in Edinburgh for holding an anti-monarchy sign, reading “Not my King,” targeting the ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has said a decree is ready to call voters to legislative elections on Dec. 17. “A draft decree to hold elections on Dec. 17 is ready,” Saied said during a Cabinet meeting held in the capital Tunis on Thursday. “Personal voting does not involve exclusion of anyone,” […]
ANKARA (AA) – UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged Sudan’s army chief, Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, and his deputy to withdraw from the country’s political scene. The call has been made in a UN Security Council report on the situation in Sudan and the activities of the UN mission in the country. Guterres urged […]
