Muhamad Yehia PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya’s anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full U.N. peacekeeping operation. Ruto visited Haiti to assess the progress of the Multinational Security Support …
Read More »UN chief Guterres ‘gravely alarmed’ by reports of RSF assault on al-Fashir
Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely alarmed” by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a U.N. spokesperson said on …
Read More »In Nigeria’s food belt, fears of another flood as Cameroon opens dam
BENUE, Nigeria, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm and in a major river nearby, pointing to impending floods in Benue state, a major food producer in the central belt. Two …
Read More »Hezbollah leaders among 37 killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
Sahar ragab BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Two Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb , Israel’s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including women and children. Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade fire Saturday, a day after …
Read More »Iran condemns a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand for the Iranian national anthem
Iran expressed its deep displeasure Friday over a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand during the Iranian national anthem at an event in Tehran, state-run media said, following a similar incident in Pakistan earlier in the week. The incident involving the Taliban delegate to the Islamic Unity Conference in the Iranian …
Read More »Hezbollah leader vows retaliation against Israel for attacks on devices as both sides trade strikes
Muhamad Yehia BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting would not be able to return until the war in Gaza …
Read More »Mali officials close livestock markets over suspected links to militants
Muhamad Yehia BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Authorities in Mali’s capital announced Thursday after a deadly attack by al-Qaida-linked militants that they were closing several livestock markets that typically are run by an ethnic group that officials associate with the militants. The al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM claimed responsibility for the attacks …
Read More »Israeli airstrike in Beirut kills Hezbollah commander and more than a dozen
Muhamad Yerhia BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut neighborhood on Friday. It was the deadliest such strike on Lebanon’s capital in decades, with Lebanese authorities reporting at least 14 people killed and dozens more wounded in the …
Read More »A war with Hezbollah may be looming. Is Israel prepared?
Muhamad Yehia JERUSALEM (AP) — With Israel’s defense minister announcing a “new phase” of the war and an apparent Israeli attack setting off explosions in electronic devices in Lebanon, the specter of all-out combat between Israel and Hezbollah seems closer than ever before. Hopes for a diplomatic solution to the …
Read More »Nigeria warns of possible flooding as Cameroon releases water from dam
Muhamad Yehia ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s government warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon. The Nigerian hydrological agency said on Wednesday that water would be released from the Lagdo dam gradually and could cause flooding, but that there …
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