MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali lawmakers from both houses of parliament who gathered in a hangar inside heavily fortified Mogadishu International Airport elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president Sunday, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo. Mohamud, who was Mohamed’s immediate predecessor as ...
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisian opposition leader Ghazi Chaouachi, who is the Secretary-General of the Democratic Current, has announced on social media that he will appear before court after a judicial investigation was opened against him on charges of “disturbing public order.” “I was informed a while ago by the Bar Association of a de...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Ten of the 43 ministers in Nigeria’s Federal Cabinet on Friday resigned from office ahead of this month’s pre-election exercise by political parties before next year’s general elections. Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed said President Muhammadu Buhari held a valedictory session with t...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Citing security reasons, police in Somalia on Saturday announced a curfew in the capital Mogadishu ahead of the country’s long-delayed presidential election scheduled for Sunday. Abdifitah Aden Hassan, a police spokesman, said movement of the people and traffic will not be allowed, adding the curfew will last un...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s Presidential Election Commission has finally concluded the registration of candidates for the May 15 polls. Thirty-nine candidates have registered, including incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, two former presidents, a former prime minister, a former mayor of Mogadishu, several former minis...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Arab Joint List on Monday voted against a no-confidence motion in the Knesset, a move that kept Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition government alive. The Arab Joint List, which is not a member of the coalition but has six seats in the Knesset, justified its move as a way to block […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The voter turnout of the Lebanese diaspora in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections reached 60%, according to the country’s foreign ministry. Foreign Ministry official Hadi Hashem said between 128,000 and 130,000 expatriates in 58 countries cast their votes out of 225,000 eligible Lebanese voters worldwide. “The turnout of expatr...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has welcomed the launch of a national dialogue facilitated by the UN and the African Union. The SRF is an alliance of political and armed groups formed in 2011 to oppose the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. “We welcome the planned launch of dialogue between Sudanese […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced late Sunday that he is running for a second term in the country’s highly anticipated presidential election. Addressing the nation in a short video posted on his Twitter account, Mohamed said he is seeking a second term as president to continue the cou...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s national electoral body on Sunday said its chairman will not get involved in partisan politics or run for the country’s presidency in the general elections early next year. In a statement, Rotimi Oyekanmi, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, describ...
