BANJUL — Gambia’s Supreme Court dismissed a legal challenge to President Adama Barrow’s recent election victory on Tuesday, ruling that the petition had not followed proper procedure, court documents showed.Barrow won the Dec. 4 poll with 53% of the vo…
NIAMEY, NIGER — At least six people have been killed in attacks by suspected jihadis in Niger near its border with Burkina Faso, authorities said Friday.”The provisional toll is … six dead, including a policeman, two customs officers and three civilian…
PORT-UA-PRINCE, HAITI — More than a dozen people severely injured in a gas truck explosion last week have died, raising the total number of deaths to 90, the deputy mayor of Cap-Haitien, the city in Haiti where the tragedy occurred, said Monday.The cou…
CAIRO — Sudanese took to the streets in the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere across the country for mass protests Sunday against an October military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok but sidelined the movemen…
Ethiopia is the third-largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, sheltering 817,068 registered refugees and asylum-seekers as of 30 November 2021. The overwhelming majority originate from South Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea.10,892 refugees have received C…
ROME, A third of people in the 420-million-strong Arab world do not have enough to eat, the United Nations said, highlighting that 69 million suffered from malnutrition last year. In a report, the world body’s Food and Agriculture Organization said th…
GENEVA, Country officials and campaigners have expressed disappointment after United Nations talks on autonomous weapons systems known as “killer robots” stopped short of launching negotiations into an international treaty to govern their use following…
DAMASCUS, Three civilians from the same family were killed yesterday, by U.S. forces in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour, the state news agency reported.The U.S. forces conducted a large-scale airdrop in the town of Al-Busayrah and surroundi…
KABUL, Afghan police arrested 250 people related to criminal activities in and around the capital city of Kabul, over the past two weeks, Interior Ministry spokesman, Qari Sayed Khosti said today.The arrested people were involved in illegal activities …
MOGADISHU, More than 300,000 people in Somalia’s Galgaduud region have been affected by a severe drought that has gripped most of the country and forced the federal government last month to declare a state of emergency.“There is not enough food, not en…
