Wednesday, November 15, 2023
At least two children died when fire swept through an informal camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria, destroying more than a thousand tents, emergency officials said on Wednesday. The fire broke out at the Muna Alamdari camp near the Borno State capital...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called Israel a “terror state”, stepping up his condemnation of the spiralling civilian toll of its war against Hamas militants in Gaza. Erdogan’s latest — and one of the most heated —...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrived in Turkey for treatment in the early hours of Thursday, Turkey’s Anadolu agency reported. Two planes carrying the patients, many of them children, landed at Ankara...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
More than 260 Libyan and international companies on Wednesday attended a forum in Benghazi organised by the country’s eastern authorities with the hope of rebuilding the flood-ravaged city of Derna. On September 10, Storm Daniel hit the east coast of Libya,...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
France24 says a rare geological phenomenon has occurred in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains following a large earthquake on September 8. While the earthquake’s scars are still visible, new water sources have emerged in the region, providing much-needed relief in...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
US World & News Report discusses the public pressure and protests in Morocco and other Arab nations in response to Israel’s war with Hamas. Tens of thousands of people in Morocco have demonstrated in support of the Palestinians, and there are demands to...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
The military leaders who took power in Niger this year have commissioned a giant pipeline that will carry crude oil to neighbouring Benin, public television said Wednesday. The nearly 2,000-kilometre-long oil pipeline will allow Niger — one of the world’s...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Tunisia’s president said Wednesday that the escape of five prisoners convicted of “terrorism” was a well-planned operation that had clearly been in the pipeline for “months”. The government has urged Tunisians to be vigilant following the...
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Egypt will help evacuate “about 7,000” foreigners and dual nationals from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, the foreign ministry said, with officials saying some 400 people were expected to cross Thursday. For the first time after weeks of deadly fighting...
Monday, October 30, 2023
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Monday, October 23, 2023
An aid convoy entered the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday via the Rafah border crossing, AFP correspondents on the Egyptian and Palestinian sides said, the third since war erupted on October 7. More than a dozen lorries crossed Rafah, the correspondents said, adding to...
Monday, October 23, 2023
The European Union on Monday took a legal step towards imposing sanctions on Niger’s new military rulers, who overthrew the democratically elected leader in July. The 27-nation bloc has condemned the ouster of Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, which...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
In Libya: Several hundred people protested in Tripoli and other Libyan cities late Tuesday over the deadly strike on a Gaza hospital, according to AFP journalists. In Tripoli, hundreds of demonstrators of all ages, brandishing Palestinian flags and some covering...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Burkina Faso’s junta-led government signed a deal with Russia on Friday for the construction of a nuclear power plant to increase the energy supply to the Sahel country where less than a quarter of the population has access to electricity. It is the latest move...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Flooding after heavy rains in eastern Ghana have forced nearly 26,000 people to leave their homes at the request of the authorities, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) said Tuesday.Crops have been destroyed and schools shut after two hydro-electric...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Tunisian President Kais Saied sacked the economy minister on Tuesday and appointed the finance minister to the role on an interim basis, the presidency announced without giving any explanation. In a brief statement published on its official website, the presidency...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Thousands of angry protesters gathered outside the French embassy in Tunisia on Tuesday, also denouncing the US, after a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital killed at least 200 people. The health ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said at least 200 people died in the strike,...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Relief convoys which have been waiting for days in Egypt were Tuesday headed towards the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Palestinian enclave of Gaza, aid officials said. The blockaded territory has been under sustained Israeli bombardment since Gaza’s...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Niger’s military regime said Tuesday that six soldiers and 31 “terrorists” had been killed in fighting in a restive region plagued by insurgents linked with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Clashes between armed forces and “terrorist...
Monday, October 16, 2023
Hundreds of supporters of Abir Moussi, a prominent opponent of the Tunisian president, gathered on Sunday in the capital to protest her detention, AFP journalists said. Moussi, who has on multiple occasions accused Saied of carrying out “a coup”, was...
Monday, October 16, 2023
By Sarah Benhaida: The Gaza Strip has only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left”, the regional head of the United Nations’ World Health Organization told AFP on Monday, as pressure mounts for assistance to arrive. If aid is not allowed into...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
A Moroccan appeals court on Wednesday reduced to eight months the sentence for a human rights activist convicted of comments considered offensive to the king and the judiciary after. Saida El Alami is still serving a separate three-year sentence for...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Niger’s military leaders have ordered the United Nations coordinator to leave the country within 72 hours, blaming the world body for hindering international recognition of the post-coup regime. The expulsion order comes a day after the United States cut off...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
An Egyptian policeman shot dead two Israeli tourists and their Egyptian guide Sunday, local media and Israeli authorities said, as war raged for a second day between Israel and Palestinian militants. Israel’s National Security Council later said its citizens...
Monday, October 9, 2023
Egyptian presidential hopeful Ahmed al-Tantawi on Monday said eight of his supporters had been arrested, bringing the total number of his backers in detention to 96. Egypt announced last month that it would be holding its presidential election on December 10-12, with...
Friday, October 6, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
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