MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia will elect its next president on May 15, the presidential election committee announced on Thursday, with two former presidents among more than a dozen candidates expected to contest for the coveted position. The Federal Parliament of Somalia’s 15-member committee responsible for organizing the elec...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Hamza Shehbaz of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) took oath as the new chief minister of Pakistan’s largest province of Punjab on Saturday after a long-drawn legal battle. National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath to Hamza as the 21st chief minister of the bellwether...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators staged rallies on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a deadly sit-in dispersal, in which dozens of protesters were killed. More than 60 protesters were killed when security forces violently dispersed a protest camp outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on June 29...
NUR SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan will hold a referendum to amend 33 provisions of its basic law which constitutes one-third of the country’s constitution, the leader of the Central Asian nation said on Friday. “We will put a resolute barrier against nepotism and paternalism, corruption and compradors,” said Kazakh President Kassy...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Lawmakers in Somalia’s lower house of parliament chose Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as its new speaker early Thursday after a much anticipated election held inside the heavily protected Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu. Over 250 parliamentarians took part in the election following severa...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A growing rift between Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble is sending the wrong signals to citizens and the donor community. Mohamed, widely known as Farmajo, and Roble publicly disagreed Wednesday over which security team should oversee the security of the election proc...
PARIS (AA) – Emmanuel Macron has won a second term as French president, according to the full results released by the Interior Ministry on Sunday’s run-off election. Macron, the candidate of La Republique En Marche! Party, received 58.6% or 18,779,809 votes. Turnout was 72.37%, according to the ministry, the lowest since 1969. Macron ent...
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libya’s newly appointed government of Fathi Bashagha has dismissed reports about having been asked by Tunisia to leave the country where he had been residing. In a statement, the Libyan Foreign Ministry termed the reports as “fake” and “malicious rumors targeting the bilateral relations between the government and its Tunisian ...
NEW DELHI – Higher education authorities in India have urged Indian nationals not to enroll in any college or educational institution in Pakistan. In an advisory issued on Friday April 22 for Indian nationals and overseas citizens, the University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education said that students are advis...
TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has rejected a presidential decree to amend the laws of the country’s election commission. “President Kais Saied, who put the country on the path of economic and financial collapse, continues to trample on the constitution, of which Chapter 70 prohibits any change to electoral articles by...
