Afroasia Online : The United States and its negotiating partners agreed “in secret” to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year’s landmark nuclear agreement in order to meetRead More
ABIDJAN – Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo on Wednesday denied charges of crimes against humanity during political violence in 2010 and said she had suffered attempted rape whileRead More
Sudanese officials said President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned on Thursday from a one-day visit to Uganda made in defiance of an international warrant for his arrest on charges of genocide.Read More
Juba – For the second day in a row South Sudan’s rebels have failed to organise their leader’s much-anticipated return to the capital, Juba, after more than two years ofRead More
Cairo – Three Egyptian riot policemen were killed Tuesday in a rocket attack on their convoy in the Sinai Peninsula, where authorities are fighting a jihadist insurgency, the interior ministryRead More
AFROASIA NEWS – Ethiopia has declared two days of national mourning for the killing of at least 200 people by gunmen from neighbouring South Sudan without providing any information aboutRead More
An American-made Iraqi army tank that locals have fondly nicknamed “The Beast” is playing a major role driving the Islamic State group from a town on the frontlines, a PentagonRead More
AFROASIA NEWS ONLINE – The wealthiest nations are failing the most disadvantaged of their children, the United Nations reported Wednesday in a study that showed widening disparities even between theRead More
HONOLULU — The U.S. Navy officer in charge of a flight crew that located three castaways on a remote Pacific island said Monday he has never seen or heard ofRead More
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)- Israeli occupation authorities have recently published four new tenders for the establishment of hotels, commercial offices, and park in Ma’aleh Adumim settlement illegally built in occupied east Jerusalem,Read More
Dakar – Senegal has voted overwhelmingly in favour of limiting presidential terms to five years, the country’s interior minister said on Tuesday, after a weekend referendum widely seen as aRead More
Cairo – An Egyptian court on Tuesday released on bail a student arrested more than two years ago for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-torture slogan, his lawyer and aRead More
Harare – President Robert Mugabe, who cancelled an appearance at a cultural festival in New Delhi, never actually arrived in India, his former information minister Jonathan Moyo said on Thursday.Read More
Geneva – South Sudan lets fighters rape women as payment, the UN rights office said on Friday, describing the country as “one of the most horrendous human rights situations inRead More
Luanda – Angola’s powerful veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa’s second-longest serving leader after 36 years at the helm, on Friday said he would leave politics in 2018, afterRead More
