By Anadolu Agency Niger’s military junta has blocked officials from the African Union, a West African regional bloc and the UN from visiting the country, a letter by the Foreign Ministry seen Tuesday showed, foiling the latest diplomatic attempts to reinstate the country’s ousted president. Diplomats from the African Union, the UN and the Economic

By Anadolu Agency The Indian parliament began debating Tuesday a no-confidence motion that opposition parties have brought against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Last month, the Lok Sabha – the lower house of parliament – admitted the motion, brought in by India’s newly formed opposition alliance against the government. While the Indian ruling

Benaisha Poole-Watson, famous realtor and business mogul is the first Afro-Latina to own an FDIC bank. Photo Credit: Instagram, Benaisha Poole- Watson By Face2Face Africa Benaisha Poole-Watson, a famous realtor and business mogul, is the first Afro-Latina to own an FDIC bank. She is a native of South Central Los Angeles’ Crenshaw District, where she

An Egyptian family walks near vehicles as power cuts to reduce energy consumption are executed by the Egyptian government during the current brutal heat wave, in Cairo, Egypt August 3, 2023. Photographer Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo By Reuters Egypt’s natural gas production fell to a three-year low in the first five months of 2023, figures

Security forces take security measures at the area after bomb attack during the passage of an African Union Transition Mission in Somalia convoy in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 03, 2023. Photo A A /via AFP By The East African The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) is keeping its exit plan, preparing a pool

Reuters/Anna Voitenko By Reuters Ukraine is seeing “significant results” from U.S. and German air defence systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, despite waves of Russian air strikes that included a hit on a blood transfusion centre. Russia reported that it had shot down a drone heading for Moscow in the third such attack in

By Anadolu Agency Turkey on Saturday condemned “in strongest terms” a new provocation by the PKK terror group in Sweden targeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We condemn in the strongest terms the fact that a PKK-affiliated group was allowed to make propaganda with the symbols of a terrorist organization and to commit an outrageous

Railway in Uganda By The African Exponent Uganda is embarking on the restoration of a historic British-era railway line after failing to secure funding from China for a new standard gauge railway (SGR). The existing rail line, built during British colonial rule, has been out of use for almost four decades. The revived rail project

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan /File Photo Reuters Evening Standard By Bill McLoughlin Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan has been arrested on corruption charges, his lawyer has said. According to his lawyer, Khan was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore on Saturday. Legal experts say a conviction in the case

Credit Photo Daily Sabah/Ankara, Turkey The Turkish government has said that they are deporting more than one million people who are immigrants. Most of these people are born in Syria, Somalia and other Africans who are not legally in the country. In recent months, the immigration authorities in Turkey have launched campaigns targeting Africans, including