By Mumen KhatibB and Giuseppe Cacace: Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is stretchered onto a plane to Abu Dhabi — one of the Gaza war’s first evacuees to the United Arab Emirates for urgent medical treatment. In the dead of night at Egypt’s El Arish airport, near the […]
Moroccan mining company Managem, controlled by Morocco’s royal family, has refuted allegations linking its mining activities to arsenic contamination in the local water supply. Associated Press says Managem Group, a subsidiary of Al Mada Group, released a statement countering claims made in a report by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. The report suggested hazardous levels […]
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune dismissed his prime minister on Saturday, replacing him with a seasoned diplomat, the presidency said. Tebboune named Nadir Larbaoui, currently serving as director of the presidential cabinet, to replace Prime Minister Aimene Benabderrahmane. Before heading Tebboune’s cabinet, Larbaoui was a longstanding diplomat, having served as Algeria’s permanent representative to the United […]
Mali’s army has retaken the town of Kidal from Tuareg-dominated rebels. Here we look at the significance of the place which has for years been a northern stronghold for the separatists. – Where and what is Kidal? – Kidal occupies a special place in the geography and consciousness of the Sahel region. A former French […]
Jubilant Malians have taken to the streets and the ruling junta issued triumphant statements saying the military’s takeover of a key rebel-held town validated its strategic choices. The capture of Kidal — a historic centre of independence insurgencies and a crossroads on the road to Algeria — is the most notable military success by the […]
The United Nations said it resumed humanitarian flights in Niger on Wednesday, suspended after a July coup in the country where more than four million people are in need of aid. “The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) resumes domestic flights on Wednesday,” the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, told AFP in Niger’s capital, Niamey. OCHA’s office […]
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 — verbal attacks against Israel came two days before he plans to make a sensitive visit to […]
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 airport shortly after 00:30 am local time (2130 GMT). Turkey has sent a ship […]
