Libyan Interior Minister Emad al-Tarabelsi (R) and Tunisian Interior Minister Khaled Nouri (L) sign a security agreement in Tripoli, Libya, on June 12, 2024. The Ras Ajdir border crossing, a vital land link between Libya and Tunisia, will partially reopen on Thursday following months of closure, the Libyan Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday. (Libyan National

By The Associated Press A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing at least 49 people and leaving another 140 missing, the U.N. agency said Tuesday. The boat was carrying about 260 Somalis and Ethiopians from the northern coast of Somalia on the 320-kilometer (200-mile) journey across the Gulf of Aden when

By Anadolu Agency Rwanda accused the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday of presenting fabricated allegations to UK courts about the country’s treatment of asylum seekers amid concerns about a migration deal that Britain signed with Kigali. The accusations came a day after the UN refugee agency warned UK judges that it

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima. Credit to Photo/ Facebook By Reuters Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed when the military plane they were travelling in crashed, President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrying Chilima, who was seen as a potential candidate

Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud held a meeting with the King of Norway, King Harald V, and Crown Prince Haakon Magnus at the royal palace in Oslo. Read: Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh history of corruption 2012-2017 Read: Somalia Hassan Sheikh’s government is facing a widespread financial crisis and the causes The corrupt President Hassan Sheikh’s and the

By Reuters Search and rescue operations will continue until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is found, the southern African nation’s president said late on Monday. Chilima, 51, was aboard a military aircraft with nine others that left Lilongwe, the capital, at 09:17 a.m. (0717 GMT), Malawi’s Office of the President

The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said there was no official statement from the Somalia government, which Ethiopia was informed that Ethiopian troops will be withdrawn from Somalia end of the year 2024. Read: United Nations congratulates Somalia on UN Security Council chair The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nabu Tedla said that

French President Emmanuel Macron By Anadolu Agency French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday dissolved the lower chamber of the French parliament, or the National Assembly, and called snap elections after the far-right National Rally (RN) inflicted a heavy defeat on his camp in European elections. The first round of the legislative elections will be held

Kinshasa, June 7, 2024. Photographer Justin Makangara By Reuters More than 50 defendants, including six with U.S., British, Canadian or Belgian citizenship, appeared in court in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday charged with taking part in a failed coup and other offences that carry the death penalty. Armed men briefly occupied an office

The village of Pedi is seen, following the search for missing British TV doctor Michael Mosley on the southeastern Aegean Sea island of Symi, Greece, June 8, 2024. Photographer Panormitis Chatzigiannakis By Reuters The body of British TV presenter and healthy living advocate Michael Mosley has been found on the Greek island of Symi, a