DAKAR, Senegal – Two people have been killed in protests against the arrest of an opposition leader in Senegal. The Senegalese government has announced blocking access to cell phones and the Internet following the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. The government also dissolved Sonko’s party, the Patriots of Senegal (PASTEF...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): France has received authorization from certain Nigerien authorities to intervene militarily to free Niger’s president, who was detained last week as part of a putsch led by his presidential guard, the junta said in a statement issued Monday. “In keeping with its policy of seeking ways and means to intervene militar...
GENEVA (AA): The EU has vowed to support any measures adopted by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the recent coup in Niger. The bloc “will support them (measures) rapidly and resolutely,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. The EU joins the strong condemnation expressed by the he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s parliament on Monday passed a bill which allows a role for the powerful army in the “country’s development,” state media reported. The bill to amend the Pakistan Army Act 1952 was passed by the lower house, or the National Assembly, a week after it got a nod from the Senate. Senators [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): A Senegalese court in the capital Dakar on Monday ordered the detention of opposition leader and presidential hopeful Ousmane Sonko, his lawyer said. Judge Maham Diallo issued a “warrant of committal” against Sonko after hearing charges leveled against him, Khoureychi Ba told reporters. Sonko was charged with multiple coun...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Rival Palestinian political leaders meeting in Egypt decided on Sunday to form a committee on intra-Palestinian reconciliation. President Mahmud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met for rare face-to-face talks in the coastal city of El Alamein along with representatives of most Palestinian political factions. The lates...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Chad’s transition President Mahamat Idriss Deby held talks on Monday with Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, the commander of Niger’s presidential guard who declared himself the head of a transitional government after last week’s military coup. Deby also met with Niger’s deposed President Bazoum Mohamed and former head of state Is...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – More than 100 people were reportedly injured in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, as the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) protested against the government. A police vehicle and three public buses were reportedly set on fire and several private vehicles were damaged during the protests. The opposition a...
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): At least six people were killed Sunday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp. The fighting between Fatah and Islamists in the camp, which erupted overnight, killed a Fatah military leader a...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West. In the third coup in as many […]
