Dakar, Senegal — AFP Access to mobile internet has been cut in Dakar, as Senegal grapples with a political crisis after President Macky Sall announced a postponement of this month’s election. Many users in the capital said they had been unable to access mobile data on their phones since Monday morning. Senegal’s parliament is...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) — A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years each in prison over charges of unlawful marriage. Judge Qudrat Ullah announced the verdict in the northeastern garrison city of Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, according to local broadcaster ARY. The judge...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison, less than two weeks before the country votes in an election his party has been hamstrung from contesting. Pakistan goes to the polls next Thursday in a ballot already marred by allegations of pre-vote rigging, with Khan [&hell...
Mianwali, Pakistan — AFP Pakistani cricketing legend turned politician Imran Khan is wildly popular in his constituency and ancestral homeland of Mianwali, but the political posters that line the streets do not bear his face and flags do not fly his colours. A relentless crackdown widely attributed to Pakistan’s powerful military h...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – In a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 12 US senators have urged an end to the “persistent harassment” of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is battling a string of graft cases. Earlier this month, a court handed down a six-month prison sentence to Yunus and three of his colleagues [&helli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to negotiate a date for new elections. “I have a proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu: let’s sit down, you and I, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, and set a date,” Lapid said during a meeting of his […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Senegalese Constitutional Council has approved the final list of 20 candidates for the presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25, but two opposition leaders, Ousmane Sonko and Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade, have been excluded. According to the final list released late Saturday, which left out th...
A closer look at the unprecedented hostilities and the wider implications for regional stability By Iftikhar Gilani Following the tit-for-tat airstrikes on militant groups in the Balochistan-Sistan region, Pakistan and Iran have decided to ease tensions after Pakistan’s caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani held talks with his Ir...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s military government said Thursday it thwarted a “coup attempt” by a network of serving and retired security personnel, and civilians. In a statement, government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo said that “a coup attempt had been foiled on Jan. 14” and alleged coup plotters were arrested. A network of...
Moroni, Comoros – AFP Comoros security forces responded with tear gas and arrests on Wednesday after groups, angered by the re-election of President Azali Assoumani, tried to block roads in the capital. Debris and burning tyres were scattered in several streets of Moroni and the Indian Ocean archipelago’s largest street market lay ...
