By Reuters Interest rates in Turkey are rising amid expectations that government policies will become more orthodox no matter who wins May 14 elections, and after a regulatory change to make holding Turkish lira more attractive to counter FX demand, bankers said. Despite soaring inflation, the central bank has slashed its key rate to 8.5%

By Anadolu Agency The death toll in the ongoing clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has climbed to 144, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Doctors (CCSD) said in a statement Tuesday. “The number of casualties is rapidly increasing with the continuation of the aggressive fighting and the

Police officers of the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia from Uganda, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia gather at a base in Mogadishu/AFP By The East African About $200 million could have been paid out in compensation to families of African Union (AU) peacekeepers killed or injured in Somalia since 2007, in what

In this photo taken from video released by Russian TV Pool on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at an undisclosed location. The Kremlin says Putin has visited headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. (Pool Photo via AP) By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday visited command

By Reuters A U.S. diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan in an apparent attack by fighters linked to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday, calling the incident “reckless” and “irresponsible”. Fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary RSF that erupted on Saturday has killed at

Credit Photo/Facebook Police officer Ahmed Rashid who is accused of killing two young men in Nairobi has finally taken plea to murder charges. Appearing before High Court judge Diana Mochache, Rashid pleaded not guilty. Rashid took plea after High Court judge Diana Mochache dismissed his application on jurisdiction. Justice Mochache ruled that the court has

The Italian coast guard ship Peluso enters the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Monday, April 17, 2023, with some 300 migrants saved from the sea. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli) By The Associated Press Italy’s right-wing government pressed ahead with plans to crack down on migrants as they arrived by the hundreds on Monday at a Sicilian

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murthy attend a reception to celebrate the British Asian Trust, at The British Museum, in London, Britain, February 9, 2022. Photographer Tristan Fewings/Reuters The Independent By Jon Stone Rishi Sunak is under investigation after facing allegations of a possible failure to declare the shares his wife

Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (left), the head of the ruling military council and his deputy Sudanese paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo greet supporters at different events in 2019/ AFP By The East African Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary unit that often runs a parallel command system but says it plays alongside the

Photo source: @US7thFleet/Twitter By Anadolu Agency China on Monday called a US warship’s voyage through the Taiwan Strait a “hyped up” transit. According to US Army’s 7th Fleet, its Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit on Sunday through waters “where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply