Saturday, December 5, 2020
Mali’s interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African country’s transition to civilian rule, with the military retaining a strong role. Young army officers in the conflict-ridden Sahel state toppled...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
European Council chief Charles Michel said Friday that Turkey has not de-escalated its stand-off with Greece and warned EU members now need to consider tougher options. “I think that the cat and mouse game needs to end,” Michel said, referring to...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
A yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria has killed 172 people so far, the World Health Organization said Friday. The outbreak poses an extra challenge to the country’s health system as Africa’s most populous nation deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, several...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday he hopes France will get rid of Emmanuel Macron as soon as possible, the latest salvo in an escalating war of words between the two leaders. Turkey is embroiled in a series of disputes with France and its EU partners,...
Saturday, December 5, 2020
Two journalists from the Russian television channel NTV have been arrested by Turkish police for allegedly filming a drone production unit without permission, NTV and a Turkish source said Friday. Moscow and Ankara have agreed to jointly monitor a Russian-mediated...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Islamist militants in Mozambique killed two dozen soldiers in an ambush attack, military sources told AFP, a significant show of force against the military’s struggle to quell an insurgency in the north. A shadowy jihadist group has wreaked havoc in the northern...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Britain is deploying 300 troops to the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali to help strengthen security and human rights there, its defence ministry said Thursday. The British troops will provide the UN mission with “a highly specialised reconnaissance capability,...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Two forestry workers were killed and two soldiers were reported missing after an attack early Friday in southwestern Niger, the first in the region in almost a year, sources said. “Assailants targeted a position of the Nigerien armed forces and the water and...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Hundreds of medics protested in Tunisia on Friday after a young doctor died in a hospital elevator accident in the country’s northwest. Badreddedine Aloui, 27, plunged to his death Thursday down an elevator shaft after the lift doors opened but with no elevator...
Friday, December 4, 2020
Moroccan police said Friday they have arrested three men in the northern city of Tetouan suspected of “terrorist plots” and links to the Islamic State group. The three had recorded a “video in which they pledge allegiance to the supposed emir of...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Twenty thousand foreign forces and mercenaries are in Libya despite a ceasefire and long-standing arms embargo, the UN envoy said Wednesday, calling the situation a “shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty”. Libya has been wracked by violence and chaos...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
An Algerian soldier was killed Wednesday during a clash with armed Islamists in the country’s northeast, the defence ministry said in a statement. Lelmaya Sifeddine was killed “during a new clash with a terrorist group” during an ongoing operation in...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
The Berbers of Egypt: By Hager Harabech Siwa Oasis, Egypt, Dec 2, 2020 – Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Morocco hopes to launch an ambitious vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus by year-end, but its efforts have sparked suspicion and rumours in the country, hard-hit by the pandemic. The North African kingdom is hoping to immunise 20 million adults against...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Three people died on Wednesday when a dilapidated building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a security source said. “Ambulances and civil protection workers are at the scene” and search operations are underway, said the source, who did not...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Egypt is to “temporarily close” its investigation into the murder in Cairo of Italian student Guilio Regeni, for which Rome named Egyptian security officials as suspect, the two countries said Monday. The judiciary services of the two countries, in a joint...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Egyptian police have detained a photographer for disrespect after he shot images of a dancer in ancient costume at the Pyramid of Djoser outside Cairo, a security source has confirmed. Rumours had swirled on social media for days that the model, Salma al-Shimi, had...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
After years of violence and lawlessness during which the Malian town of Menaka changed hands between rebels and Islamists, a fragile calm has finally returned due to joint patrols by federal troops, militiamen and UN peacekeepers. Situated in the desert northeast of...
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
Monday, November 30, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to weigh on global oil demand, the OPEC oil producers’ club on Monday began a meeting in which they are expected to decide on an extension of production cuts. “2020 continues to be a year of immense challenges caused...
Monday, November 30, 2020
The incompetent Arab regimes: Opinion by Arezki Daoud Arab governments have perfected the science of fake news and deceptive propaganda. Twitter and Facebook have long been inundated with tweets and posts that have been praising regimes in the Arab world, in...
Monday, November 30, 2020
Suspected militants attacked several Malian and foreign military bases with mortars and rockets in the north of the country on Monday, military sources said. No casualties were immediately reported in the attacks on Menaka, Gao and Kidal in what appeared to be a rare...
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Leaders from southern African countries met for urgent security talks on Friday and agreed on a “regional response” to the Islamist insurgency ravaging parts of northern Mozambique. Five presidents conferred for an extraordinary summit in the Botswana...
Sunday, November 29, 2020
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
A ship management company is in talks to free three Greek sailors kidnapped earlier this month by pirates off the Nigerian coast, Athens’ Merchant Navy Ministry said Sunday. Three of the five-strong crew were snatched from the Togo-flagged bunkering vessel...
Sunday, November 29, 2020
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Sunday, November 29, 2020
A weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on the Boko Haram jihadist group left at least 110 dead, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country said Sunday. “At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this...
