Tuesday, February 7, 2023
By Remi Banet with Youssef Karwashan in Aleppo: Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled bitter cold Tuesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 7,800 people. The latest toll showed 5,894 people killed...
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
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Monday, February 6, 2023
Three children died and 11 were injured, two of them seriously, when a school made of straw and wood caught fire in central Niger on Monday, local officials said. The fire broke out in a classroom in a school in Zinder and spread swiftly, fanned by the harmattan...
Monday, February 6, 2023
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
A policeman and a civilian were killed and seven were wounded in an attack in jihadist-torn eastern Mali, officials said Wednesday. The attack occurred Tuesday evening at a checkpoint in San, a town some 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of the capital Bamako and about...
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
A powerful Tunisian trade union Wednesday condemned the arrest of one of its top officials, saying it was linked to President Kais Saied warning workers against striking for “political ends”. The arrest of Anis Kaabi, the UGTT’s top official for...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
A Malian court has sentenced a man to death over the 2019 killing of three peacekeepers in the south of the country, the UN mission in Mali said on Wednesday. The Bamako criminal court convicted the accused — who was not named — on Tuesday of acts of...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Egypt’s Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s most prestigious educational institution, has called for the boycott of Swedish and Dutch products after far-right protesters destroyed Korans in those countries. Al-Azhar, in a statement issued Wednesday, called...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
By Delphine Touitou: France said on Thursday that it was recalling its ambassador from Burkina Faso “for consultations,” a day after agreeing to demands to pull its troops from the country. Around 400 French special forces are deployed in the deeply...
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Egypt and India announced Thursday a “strategic partnership” to increase trade by billions of dollars and strengthen diplomatic ties, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi concluded a visit to New Delhi. Facing a worsening economic crisis, Egypt is scrambling...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
France said Wednesday it will withdraw its contingent of hundreds of troops stationed in Burkina Faso within a month, after the junta ruling the Sahel country demanded the pullout. The withdrawal will mark the latest scaling down of France’s military presence in...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered an 1,800-year-old “complete residential city from the Roman-era” in the heart of the southern city of Luxor. The city, dating to the second and third centuries, is the “oldest and most...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
The head of a leading campaign group in Niger has been detained in a case involving an army air strike on suspected jihadists in the south of the country, prosecutors said. Abdoulaye Seydou, head of an activist group called M62, appeared before the Niamey criminal...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
By Laurent Lozano and Hademine Sadi: Mauritania’s ex-president Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz goes on trial on graft charges on Wednesday in an exceptional prosecution of a former African head of state. Abdelaziz, a 66-year-old former general, faces charges of having...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Major Arab states boycotted a ministerial meeting hosted by Libya’s interim government on Sunday, with just five of the Arab League’s 22 members sending their top diplomats and even the bloc’s secretary general staying away. The snub underlines Arab...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
The World Health Organization on Monday appealed for $2.54 billion for its work in 2023 to help millions of people facing health emergencies around the world. The UN health agency said that it was currently responding to an unprecedented number of intersecting health...
Monday, January 23, 2023
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni agreed Monday to strengthen energy cooperation with Africa’s top gas exporter Algeria, the latest European country seeking supply deals to help reduce reliance on Russia. “Facing the great energy crisis that Europe in...
Monday, January 23, 2023
By Matthieu Demeestere: Under the terms of a plea deal struck with Belgian investigators, former Italian lawmaker Pier Antonio Panzeri has begun to spill the beans in the graft scandal rocking the European Parliament. Panzeri is the central figure in a suspected...
Monday, January 23, 2023
Moroccan lawmakers on Monday voted unanimously to review ties with the European Parliament, accusing it of meddling after a resolution that urged the kingdom to respect press freedom. Members of both houses of Morocco’s parliament met in the capital Rabat for a...
Monday, January 23, 2023
Members of the Egyptian Bar Association on Sunday called off a days-long strike held in protest against the jailing of six colleagues, a statement said. The association had announced Thursday an open-ended strike to condemn their colleagues’ sentencing to two...
Saturday, January 21, 2023
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Saturday, January 21, 2023
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Friday, January 20, 2023
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Friday, January 20, 2023
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Friday, January 20, 2023
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Friday, January 20, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
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Thursday, January 19, 2023
The Egyptian Bar Association announced Thursday an “unlimited” strike to condemn the imprisonment of six colleagues for a court brawl with three clerks earlier this month. “We are immediately suspending all of our activities, we will stop appearing...
