KHARTOUM, Sudan – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has welcomed the launch of a national dialogue facilitated by the UN and the African Union. The SRF is an alliance of political and armed groups formed in 2011 to oppose the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. “We welcome the planned launch of dialogue between Sudanese […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced late Sunday that he is running for a second term in the country’s highly anticipated presidential election. Addressing the nation in a short video posted on his Twitter account, Mohamed said he is seeking a second term as president to continue the cou...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s national electoral body on Sunday said its chairman will not get involved in partisan politics or run for the country’s presidency in the general elections early next year. In a statement, Rotimi Oyekanmi, a spokesman for the Independent National Electoral Commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, describ...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Heavily armed unidentified militants launched an attack on a prison in northwest Burkina Faso overnight Saturday, and about 60 inmates managed to escape, local media reported Sunday. The attack at the civilian prison in the town of Nouna, in the province of Kossi in the Boucle du Mouhoun region, left one […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA): Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said the “heinous massacres” committed during the French colonial era in Algeria “can’t be forgotten.” In a message on the 77th anniversary of the massacre which began on May 8, 1945, committed by the French colonial army against Algerian demonstrators, Tebb...
ISTANBUL (AA): At least 48 people were killed by gunmen in three villages in northwestern Nigeria on Friday, according to local authorities. Aminu Suleiman, a local official in Bakura in Zamfara State, confirmed the attacks on Sunday, saying that bandits on motorcycles attacked people in Sabon Gari, Damri, and Kalahe, local media reported. Nig...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA): Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has said that it refuses to engage in a “sham” dialogue that deepens the current political crisis in the country. On Thursday May 5, the Tunisian President Kais Saied had pledged to issue a decree soon to hold a national dialogue in Tunisia. “This dialogue is [a new attempt] […]
GENEVA (AA): The UN human rights chief on Saturday expressed deep distress over recent violent clashes between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia, in which at least 30 people were reportedly killed and more than 100 others were injured. “I call on the Ethiopian authorities to promptly initiate and conduct thorough, independent, and tr...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA): Health experts have assured the people in the Democratic Republic of Congo that the Ebola pandemic is no longer a threat because the country now has an Ebola vaccine and medications. The UN radio in DR Congo reported that the Ebola vaccine and medicines have been developed and the disease, according to […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AA): Tunisian journalists have protested against what they say is growing repression and intimidation against the press since President Kais Saied’s power grab last year. The demonstration was organised by the national journalists’ union, the SNJT, which has condemned authorities’ attempts to “tame”...
