DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Eleven soldiers were killed and 20 injured in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, the army announced Thursday. The military headquarters in the Madjoari department of Kompienga province in eastern Burkina Faso was directly targeted by artillery and gunfire, according to the army statement. Following the attack, 15 te...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders were arrested Wednesday in South Sudan’s capital Juba. Sudanese Communist Party Secretary General Mohammed al-Khatib and leading party member Saleh Mahmud were on a political mission to meet with rebels who are non-signatories to the Juba peace agreement, party spokesman Fa...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – South Sudanese journalists gathered Wednesday at Al Jazeera’s office in the capital Juba to express their solidarity with the family of slain Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the news broadcaster. Thirty-two journalists went to the office carrying placards bearing the late journalist’s image. The head...
LAIKIPIA, Kenya – An ornamental plant brought by the British colonialists to Kenya in the 1940s has been killing indigenous vegetation, especially grasses and bushes, thus creating food shortages for livestock and wild animals. Scientists say that the invasive plant Opuntia stricta or the prickly pear, is spreading fast across northern Kenya, ...
JOHANNESBURG – Thousands of South Africans have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of a white student who was recorded urinating on the belongings of a Black student at Stellenbosch University. Nearly 50,000 people had signed the petition to expel Theuns Du Toit, who urinated on the desk, textbooks and laptop of Babalo Ndwayana,...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the US decision to redeploy troops to Somalia. In a Twitter post, Mohamud’s office said that the president thanked and appreciated his US counterpart Joe Biden for authorizing the deployment of American troops to Somalia. The US is a reliable ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Head of Libya’s High Council of State, Khalid al-Mishri, on Wednesday called on parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashaga to resign. His call came one day after Bashagha arrived in the capital Tripoli to take control of the government from Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, who has refused to hand over power. [&h...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commiserated with the victims of a gas explosion near a private secondary school in the Sabon Gari area of northern Kano state, where officials confirmed nine fatalities. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed that nine bodies have been recovered so far from the rubbl...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Rescue workers in Burkina Faso found no survivors in a flooded zinc mine’s rescue chamber after eight miners became stranded 32 days ago due to heavy rains, the government said Tuesday. The miners were not found in the room. Rescue teams had taken a long time to reach the room due […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha announced late Tuesday that he will base his government in the city of Sirte as of Wednesday. In a statement from Sirte on clashes that erupted between armed groups after he attempted to enter the capital Tripoli, Bashagha said they believe in the democratic...
