Category: Rest of Africa

The ministry called for Tunisians to be vigilant following the escape from Mornaguia prison just outside the capital Tunis."Five dangerous individuals serving prison sentences related to terrorist cases" escaped Mornaguia prison at dawn on Tuesday, the ministry said.Among the escapees was 44-year-old Ahmed al-Malki, nicknamed...

The border authority in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip said that Egypt had agreed to let in 81 of the most badly wounded on Wednesday through Rafah, the only crossing not controlled by Israel.

But on September 7, they quickly realised that something unusual was happening.

On Thursday, he went on trial to face 783 counts of corruption, fraud, money laundering and related charges stemming from alleged kickbacks in a 1990s arms deal.

In an interview with Nation.Africa on Tuesday, Attiya argued that the uncertainties surrounding Israel's war with Hamas, coupled with the possible infiltration of militants among the fleeing refugees, made it untenable to accept refugees.

The Jeddah talks, also supported by the US, essentially involve the protagonists: The Sudanese Armed Forces (Saf) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Both sides said on Wednesday they are willing to re-enter negotiations.

The forces of Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have been locked in deadly fighting since mid-April, killing more than 9,000 people and displacing nearly six million.

Following a coup in 2020 the new military rulers in June ordered the peacekeepers out, proclaiming the "failure" of their mission and denouncing its alleged "instrumentalisation" of the human rights issue.

The EHRC said in a press statement that priority should be given to the sustainable resolution of the conflict in the Eastern African country's second most populous region.

Tinubu immediately appealed to the opposition groups that had sued in court to support his government for the sake of Nigeria’s development.