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Thousands of Tunisian demonstrators have gathered in the capital on Sunday to protest against President Kais Saied’s “exceptional measures”. Government critics have described the latest measures as “a coup”. At the end of July Kais Saied’s dismissed the Prime Minister and froze parliament. Many see the president’s latest actions as a return to autocracy and the status quo that led… Read More

Algerian president Abdelmajid Tebboune demanded “total respect for the Algerian state” from Paris. The crisis between France and Algeria started after comments issued in early October by president Macron on the french press accusing Algiers of maintaining a “political-military” system by serving its people an “official history” that “is not based on truths”. The comments sparked outrage in Algiers that… Read More

Fourteen men, including a former president, will go on trial in Burkina Faso over the assassination in 1987 of Thomas Sankara, the country’s revolutionary leader and a pan-African icon. Near the Thomas Sankara memorial site, where he was assassinated 34 years ago, street vendors and visitors say they expect the trial “to shed light on his murder. Dubbed Africa’s Che… Read More

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate on Saturday visited a vast German open-pit coal mine and a village that is to be bulldozed for its expansion, saying the destruction is “really disturbing” and has implications far beyond Germany. The visit by Nakate and other young climate activists comes a few weeks before U.N. climate talks open in Glasgow, Scotland on Oct.… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago North Korea marked the 76th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party of Korea on Sunday. The capital city Pyongyang was decorated with flags and placards with the Workers’ Party emblem of a hammer, sickle, and brush. Under light rain in the morning, citizens went through the routine of showing respect to the country’s former leaders… Read More

Last updated: 9 hours ago Lebanon’s two main power plants were forced to shut down after running out of fuel plunging the country into darkness on Saturday. Lebanon is grappling with a crippling energy crisis made worse by its dependency on fuel imports. Erratic power supplies have put hospitals and essential services in crisis mode. The Lebanese increasingly depend on… Read More

Last updated: 57 minutes ago Palestinians and activists pick olives next to the Israeli outpost of Evitar in solidarity with Palestinians whose land was confiscated by Israeli settlers, in the village of Beita, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. More about Sourced from Africanews Read More

Last updated: 48 minutes ago Several thousand demonstrators gathered in central Tunis on Sunday to protest against President Kaïs Saied’s “exceptional measures”, which his critics have called a “coup”. Following nationwide anti-government protests, on July 25, Saied abruptly dismissed his Prime Minister, took on all executive powers and froze the parliament. On September 22, he reinforced these measures by giving… Read More

Gloria Narvaez, Colombian nun who was kidnapped more than four years ago by al-Qaida-linked extremists in Mali has been released. The nun was kidnapped in February 2017 near Mali’s border with Burkina Faso. The conditions of her release have not been revealed. Assimi Goita, President of Mali’s transitional government , members of army with Colombian nun Gloria Narvaez She was… Read More

Migrants in Libyan capital, Tripoli, demand immediate deportation to a safe location due to r living conditions in detention centres and ill-treatment by Libyan authorities. Dozens of migrants protested Saturday outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) headquarters in the Libyan capital, Tripoli where protesters held banners. Sudanese migrant Omar Idris claimed that they have been beaten, detained… Read More