Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio looked on course for re-election on Monday after the electoral commission said he had a clear lead with 60 percent of the votes counted. Bio had garnered 55.86 percent of ballots cast, more than the 55 percent required for victory after Saturday’s first round o...
CAIRO, Egypt – India and Egypt signed a strategic partnership treaty on Sunday committing to cooperate in various sectors of the economy. The treaty, signed by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Cairo, also promises Indian investment in the Suez Canal Authority. Egypt has also established ...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Police in Sierra Leone fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters on Sunday evening, authorities said, as voters awaited the results of a fiercely fought general election. Opposition All People’s Congress (APC) presidential candidate Samura Kamara said on Twitter that live bullets had a...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s army has dismissed three senior officers, including a three-star general, after an inquiry into last month’s violent protests which erupted following the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the military spokesman said on Monday. Addressing a press conference in Rawalpindi, Major Gen. Ahmad...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Vote tallying was underway in Sierra Leone on Sunday, the electoral commission said, following fiercely fought elections that were mostly calm despite significant delays in some areas. Tallying, which consists of adding up counted ballots from each polling unit at the regional level, would take place in the capita...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Malian voters overwhelmingly approved changes to the constitution in a referendum, marking a key step in the ruling junta’s declared plans to restore civilian rule, provisional results showed Friday. The military has made the draft constitution a cornerstone for the rebuilding of Mali. Ninety-seven percent of the refe...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s state prosecutor on Friday appealed against a judge’s decision to release opposition figure Chaima Issa four months after she was detained for “plotting” against the state, her lawyers said. Issa would have walked free following a decision taken by a judge from the counterterrorism court ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Voters in Sierra Leone will go to the polls on Saturday in the country’s general elections to elect a president, MPs and local councils. Thirteen candidates are in the race for the president in the West African country. Incumbent President Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), who was […]
Paris, France (AFP): Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has filed a criminal complaint in France for “crimes against humanity” against President Macky Sall, his lawyer said, as well as requesting a probe by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Sall was in Paris on Thursday and Friday for a global climate finance summit c...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Alie used to work eight hours a day driving a commercial tuk-tuk in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown but as fuel prices soar he now finds himself working 18-hour days just to make ends meet. “Everything is going uphill — there are no jobs, and (problems with) the electricity and water supply,̶...
