BAGHDAD (AA) – At least 125 people were injured on Saturday in sporadic clashes between supporters of prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and Iraqi security forces, the country’s Health Ministry confirmed. The ministry said in a statement that 100 protesters were injured in clashes with security forces during a demonstration and sit-in...
ANKARA (AA) – The US Embassy in Baghdad has called on Iraq’s political rivals to abstain from violence amid tension following the nomination of a new prime minister. In a statement, the embassy said it is “closely monitoring the unrest in Baghdad … (and) concerned by reports of violence.” It renewed calls for Iraqi parties [&...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Fresh demonstrations erupted in Sudan on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Thousands of protesters rallied in the capital Khartoum, with demonstrators blocking a number of roads with barricades and burning tyres. Security forces shut roads leading to the Presidential Palace and the headqua...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Local Senegalese citizens and the country’s diaspora voted in Senegal’s general elections on Sunday to choose members of the 165-seat parliament to govern for the next five years. Voting booths and polling stations opened at 0800 GMT, with local media reporting a moderate turnout. “There was no major inciden...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Multiple casualties were reported on Friday after a bomb blast targeted senior regional government officials in the southwestern Somali city of Baidoa, officials said. A security official in Baidoa told Anadolu Agency that initial reports said Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, justice minister in the South West State, is among t...
Conakry, Guinea — (AFP): Protests against Guinea’s ruling junta held in defiance of a protest ban have brought the capital Conakry to a standstill, with clashes breaking out in some neighbourhoods. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), an influential coalition of political parties, trade unions and civil so...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A court in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced six men to death for “committing crimes against humanity” in 1971. Five of the convicts were present for the sentencing in the capital Dhaka. One of the accused has died since the case was launched in November 2015. A three-member tribunal convicted the defendants...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Thursday it had arrested a spy network accused of working for Israel’s intelligence service Mossad. “The Iranian police have arrested the chief and members of an espionage group affiliated with the Zionist regime,” the Intelligence Organization of the Law Enforcement Command said in a statement cited by the state ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Opposition legislators in Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over increasing insecurity in parts of the country. Buhari has six weeks to “take stronger action and resolve this issue of insecurity,” Philip Aduda, a member of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, said at a...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest over a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates ...
