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Sudan rejects link between removal from US terrorism list and
KHARTOUM - Sudan does not want to link its removal from the list of American terrorism which hinders access to foreign funding for the country's economy with the normalization of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday.
Sources said this week that US officials have indicated in discussions with a Sudanese delegation that they want Khartoum to follow the UAE and Bahrain and open relations with Israel.
Sudan's designation as a sponsor state of terrorism dates back to its ousted leader…
Dozens killed in jihadist attack on Nigeria’s governor’s convoy
The death toll from a jihadist attack on the convoy of the regional governor of northeastern Nigeria has risen to 30, security sources said on Saturday.
Two sources told AFP deaths from Friday's attack in the returning Borno state had doubled as more bodies were found and now included 12 police officers, five soldiers, four members of a government-backed militia and nine civilians.
"The number has risen to 30 as many corpses were picked in the surrounding areas after the attack," said one of the sources, adding that…
opposition parties and some elected officials boycott the senatorial election
In Madagascar, about thirty opposition political parties met on Friday 25 September at the Panorama Hotel in the center of the capital Antananarivo.
Among them the TIM party of former President Marc Ravalomanana and the HVM of the outgoing head of state Hery Rajaonarimampianina.
The latter rejects the holding of the senatorial election on 11 December 2020. An election that they consider constitutional and hasty, especially because several municipalities do not have large voters, and because validation of the executive…
United States-trained forces recapture strategic Somalia town
MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S.-trained Danab forces recaptured a strategic city in the hostile Lower Shabelle region on Friday, officials said in a statement, in a huge success against the militants, who wreaked havoc on the nation of the Horn of Africa in recent years.
Reports indicate that the military team under the command of Danab, a contingent of the Somali National Army , stormed Mubarak's region in Lower Shabelle and successfully flushed out the militants, who controlled the key city which is a major supply…
Senegal celebrates 18 years of Joola drama
In Senegal, it is the 18th anniversary of Joola's sinking this Saturday, one of the deadliest in history. On September 26, 2002, the ferry connecting Casamance in the south of the country to Dakar sank off the coast of Gambia. Nearly 2,000 people died, only 64 survived.
With our correspondent in Dakar, Charlotte idrac
In the context of the pandemic, the memorial is marked with sobriety this Saturday: no large gatherings, the victims' associations call for a minute of silence at. 12 UT. But for the survivors and…
Al-Shabab says they executes spy agent and soldier in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Al-Qaeda ally in Somalia, Al-Shabab claims to have publicly executed two men on Friday afternoon accused of spying for a regional intelligence agency and a soldier in the Hiran region, in the center of the country.
The terror group announced the killings on its affiliated online media, claiming they were carried out by a firing squad in a public square in the strategic town of Buq Aqable, an al-Shabaab stronghold in the state. federal government of HirShabelle.
The two men - Abas Mohamed accused of…
African court requests that former Ivorian President Gbagbo’s suffrage be restored
Ivory Coast should allow former President Laurent Gbagbo, who is barred from running in next month's main presidential election, to vote in the vote, the African Court of Human Rights and Peoples' Rights said on Friday.
The court, set up by members of the African Union in 2004, asked Côte d'Ivoire to "take the necessary steps to immediately remove all obstacles" that prevented Gbagbo from being added to the electoral roll.
Ivory Coast withdrew its recognition of the Court's jurisdiction back in April this year.…
Somali parliament to vote on new electoral deal
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's parliament votes today on an electoral deal reached between President Farmajo and the leaders of the country's federal states on September 17 in Mogadishu following discussions under pressure from the US embassy.
The political deal is expected to gain support from MPs in both lower and upper houses, with sources indicating that First Vice President Abdiweli Mudey is against the pact and is campaigning for the amendment.
If the deal passes, the government, together with the federal…
Laurent Gbagbo symbolic victory before ACHPR
36 days before the Côte d'Ivoire presidential election, the African Court of Human Rights re-enters the debate. Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, whose candidacy was invalidated by the Constitutional Council on 14 September, scores one point. The court ordered the postponement of his conviction of Ivorian justice in the so-called "breach of the BCEAO" case and his re-registration on the electoral roll.
With our correspondent in Abidjan, Pierre Pinto
It is an ordinance, that is, a preliminary ruling of the…
The hero from ‘Hotel Rwanda’ admits they have formed a militant group behind armed attacks
Paul Rusesabagina, the polarizing hero from the hit film "Hotel Rwanda", admitted in a court in Kigali on Friday that he had helped form an armed group, but denied any role in its crimes.
Rusesabagina is famous for his portrayal of Don Cheadle in the 2004 film, in which a moderate hutu is shown saving hundreds of lives in a luxury hotel during the 1994 genocide, leaving about 800,000, mostly Tutsi, dead.
However, a more complex picture has emerged since he appeared in Kigali under arrest under mysterious circumstances…