KIGALI, Rwanda – The transition government in Mali has accused the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) of ignoring a court order to lift sanctions. UEMOA instructed all financial institutions under its umbrella to suspend Mali in January after the junta delayed elections. The measures were announced in conjunction with sanct...
On Thursday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame laid a wreath at a memorial as the African nation remembered the 1994 genocide. More than 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed. Of those, more than 250,000 people are buried at the memorial site in the capital Kigali. Thursday’s ceremony marked the beginning of […]
Muslim students in the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba are frustrated after many schools prevented prayers and other activities during the month of Ramadan. After meeting with secondary school principals, the Addis Abeba City Education Bureau said education should be free from religious activities. Several reports this week showed many schools p...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Rwandans paused Thursday to mark the 28th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group at nationwide remembrance ceremonies to honor 1 million people killed in 100 days. Thousands gathered at memorial sites in the national capital of Kigali and across the country to lay wreaths on graves where [&h...
DOUALA, Cameroon – A court in Burkina Faso has sentenced the country’s ex-president for the murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara 35 years ago. The military court in the capital Ouagadougou sentenced Blaise Compaore in absentia while he is in exile in Ivory Coast. Compaore was not present during the 6-month trial during which th...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The United States has urged Tunisian President Kais Saied to make a “quick” return to democratic rule in the country. The call was made by US Ambassador Donald Blome during his meeting with the Tunisian president at the Carthage Palace on Tuesday evening at the end of his tenure in the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday met with his Malian counterpart Sadio Camara in Ankara and condemned the latest terror attacks in Mali. The two officials held a one-on-one meeting along with talks with delegations behind closed doors. According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, Akar and Camar...
HOUSTON, Texas – Eighty-year-old Helen Lewis Johnson is an African American historian for the Black Heritage Society. He remembers the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 as if it were yesterday. “I was enjoying being home with my four children while on a spring break…when the […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The head of the UN refugee agency has demanded that European countries apply their generosity towards Ukrainian refugees to others as well as 90 more people died in a fresh “tragedy” in the Mediterranean Sea. “More than 90 people have died in another Mediterranean tragedy,” Filippo Grandi said on T...
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algeria’s Culture and Arts Ministry joined three other ministries to end the use of the French language in official correspondence due to increasing tensions between Algiers and Paris. In a statement, Culture and Arts Minister Soraya Mouloudji instructed the ministry officials to use the Arabic language in internal correspon...
