Thursday, January 28, 2021
Amnesty International on Wednesday urged Morocco to release dissident historian and rights activist Maati Monjib, who has been in pre-trial detention for a month on money-laundering accusations. “The Moroccan authorities must immediately and unconditionally...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Seven children and an adult were kidnapped from an orphanage by unknown criminals outside Nigeria’s capital Abuja, police said Monday. Aged between nine and 14, the children from the orphanage in Abaji “were plucked away between 1 am and 2 am on Saturday...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Authorities have declared a curfew in and around a city in southeastern Nigeria after clashes erupted between the army and a local militia, killing at least one person, officials and witnesses said Tuesday. The governor of Imo state, Hope Uzodinma, said a curfew had...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday replaced the country’s top military commanders in a sudden overhaul after months of pressure over deteriorating security. Buhari, a former army general, was first elected in 2015 on vows to crush a bloody jihadist...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
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Monday, January 25, 2021
A tropical cyclone that hit central Mozambique on the weekend has displaced thousands of people and caused severe flooding in an area battered by two deadly cyclones in 2019, response teams and aid agencies said. Cyclone Eloise made landfall in the early hours of...
Monday, January 25, 2021
Greece and Turkey bowed to EU pressure on Monday and locked horns in the first direct talks in nearly five years over their explosive eastern Mediterranean standoff. The three-and-a-half hour meeting ended without a breakthrough after the uneasy NATO...
Monday, January 25, 2021
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Monday, January 25, 2021
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Monday, January 25, 2021
A priest missing since Tuesday in Burkina Faso’s jihadist-plagued southwest has been found dead, security and local sources said Thursday. “The priest’s lifeless body was found in the Toumousseni Forest” in the Cascades region bordering Ivory...
Monday, January 25, 2021
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Friday, January 22, 2021
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Friday, January 22, 2021
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
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Thursday, January 21, 2021
Malian security forces fired tear gas at dozens of demonstrators in the capital Bamako on Wednesday during an unauthorised rally against France’s military role in the country. The protesters, who were in a central square in the West African city, fled before...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Libyan envoys at UN-backed talks in Egypt agreed Wednesday to hold a constitutional referendum before planned elections in the war-torn country later this year, Egypt’s foreign ministry said. Egypt “welcomes the agreement reached today between the Libyan...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
The Muslim Brotherhood’s existential fight: can it manage a comeback? The Arab Spring a decade ago gave Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood a brief shot at power, but today many of its followers are dead, in jail or in exile. Still, the Muslim Brothers vow to be...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Mali’s capital Bamako has banned a demonstration against France’s military role in the West African country, the city’s government said Wednesday, citing health concerns. Daniel Dembele, the chief of staff to Bamako’s governor, told AFP that...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Young Tunisians clashed with security forces overnight and protest organisers called for anti-government rallies Wednesday after five days of riots in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi acknowledged their “legitimate” anger in a...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Egypt and Qatar agreed Wednesday to restore diplomatic relations, Egypt’s foreign ministry said, after a three-year-long Saudi led freeze on ties with Doha ended this month. Gulf powerhouse Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt,...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A fire at a Libyan naval academy near the capital Tripoli killed two senior officers and a civilian, the health ministry said Wednesday, without identifying the root cause of the blaze. Health ministry spokesman Amine al-Hachemi said on Twitter that “the blaze...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
A priest has gone missing in southeastern Burkina Faso, triggering fears of a kidnapping in the Sahel state, which is struggling with a five-year-old jihadist offensive, the Catholic Church said Wednesday. The bishop of Banfora, Lucas Kalfa Sanou, said Father Rodrigue...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has replaced the army’s top generals after intensifying jihadist attacks threatened a major natural gas plant in the country’s north. While the presidency did not give reasons for the military reshuffle, it may...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Nigerian troops regained control of a military base in the northeast hours after it was seized by jihadists, sources told AFP on Sunday. Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State militant group captured the base in Borno state on Saturday, after launching raids earlier...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his bellicose foreign policy. Ties between Ankara and Brussels have plunged to a nadir not...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Three crew members died and three others are missing after a cargo ship sank in bad weather in the Black Sea off Turkey, local officials said Monday. Turkish rescue workers saved six crew members on board the Palau-flagged bulk carrier Arvin despite difficult weather...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Facebook complies with Ankara, agrees to appoint in-country rep Facebook said on Monday it will appoint a representative in Turkey to comply with a new social media law aimed at forcing platforms to quickly remove contentious posts. The US social media giant’s...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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