TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – A total of 125 irregular migrants were rescued from a sinking boat off the Libyan city of Homs, the country’s migration foundation reported Saturday. The Libyan Foundation for Migrant Assistance and Humanitarian Services said Coast Guard crews were assisting irregular migrants that were on board the dinghy. The irre...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Twenty people were killed in a terror attack on a gold mine in Burkina Faso, media outlets reported Saturday. An unknown number were injured when motorcyclists and gunmen attacked the small-scale Kougdiguin gold mine in the north of the country. An attack March 12 on a gold mine in the Sahel […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan’s army chief General Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan has threatened to expel the head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS), Volker Perthes, over “blatant interference” in the country’s affairs. Al-Burhan, who heads the ruling Sovereign Council, called on the UN official to “stop...
Tunis, Tunisia – Rached Ghannouchi, the speaker of Tunisia’s dissolved parliament was questioned over allegations of “conspiracy against state security.” Rached Ghannouchi, the 81-year-old speaker who also heads the Islamically oriented Ennahdha party, attended in response to the summons from judicial authorities of the...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has announced plans to build a “new republic”, amid a political crisis in the North African country. “We are determined to cleanse the country and move forward in building a new republic according to the results of electronic consultations,” Saied said in a televised s...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Few Tunisians showed interest in the online poll that was organized by President Kais Saied about presidential system in the country. Saied seized power last July in what critics branded a coup, abruptly suspending the mixed presidential-parliamentary system enshrined in the North African country’s constitution...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – More than 30 lawmakers have been summoned by Tunisia’s anti-terrorism unit, the country’s parliament speaker said on Thursday. “This is a serious development,” Rached Ghannouchi told the Qatar-based Al Jazeera television, without giving any further details. There was no comment from the Tunisian presidency on Ghannouchi’s...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – At least eight Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush in the Bandiagara region, the country’s military announced on Wednesday. The Malian army said in a statement that the soldiers patrolling between the Songoiba and Yaokanda districts in the Bandiagara region were ambushed by unidentified persons. Mali has been b...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Sudan’s de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday started his first official visit to Egypt since last year’s military coup. Burhan, greeted on arrival by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a ceremony broadcast live on state television, was accompanied by the head of general i...
Algiers, Algeria – AFP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having a “deadly” impact on the Arab world, particularly through spiralling wheat prices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Algiers Wednesday. He was speaking on the final leg of a trip that began with an unprecedented summit in an Israeli kibbutz, attend...
