KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s parliament on Monday passed a bill which allows a role for the powerful army in the “country’s development,” state media reported. The bill to amend the Pakistan Army Act 1952 was passed by the lower house, or the National Assembly, a week after it got a nod from the Senate. Senators [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): A Senegalese court in the capital Dakar on Monday ordered the detention of opposition leader and presidential hopeful Ousmane Sonko, his lawyer said. Judge Maham Diallo issued a “warrant of committal” against Sonko after hearing charges leveled against him, Khoureychi Ba told reporters. Sonko was charged with multiple coun...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Rival Palestinian political leaders meeting in Egypt decided on Sunday to form a committee on intra-Palestinian reconciliation. President Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met for rare face-to-face talks in the coastal city of El Alamein along with representatives of most Palestinian political factions. The lates...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Chad’s transition President Mahamat Idriss Deby held talks on Monday with Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, the commander of Niger’s presidential guard who declared himself the head of a transitional government after last week’s military coup. Deby also met with Niger’s deposed President Bazoum Mohamed and former head of state Is...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – More than 100 people were reportedly injured in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) protested against the government. A police vehicle and three public buses were reportedly set on fire and several private vehicles were damaged during the protests. The opposition a...
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): At least six people were killed Sunday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp. The fighting between Fatah and Islamists in the camp, which erupted overnight, killed a Fatah military leader a...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West. In the third coup in as many […]
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Firebrand Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko said Sunday he had started a hunger strike from custody after being arrested this week, as his lawyers condemned his arrest. Senegal’s public prosecutor on Saturday announced seven new charges against the politician — a vocal critic of President Macky Sa...
WASHINGTON (AA): The military’s overthrow of the democratically-elected government in Niger has jeopardized continued US assistance for the West African nation, the White House has warned. “We remind those attempting this power grab by force that an overthrow of democratically-elected President (Mohamed) Bazoum would place the US&#...
United Nations, United States (AFP): The United Nations insisted Friday it is still providing humanitarian assistance on the ground in Niger but was forced to suspend aid flights after the coup closed borders. A UN spokesperson had said on Thursday that this week’s putsch in troubled Sahel country had put humanitarian operations on hold....
