The European Union (EU) has initiated measures to impose sanctions on members of Niger’s military junta, marking a significant development three months after they seized power in a coup. On Monday, the EU Council revealed that it had taken steps to enact a framework that would empower it to impose sanctions on “individuals and entities […]

South African opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ held Monday (Oct. 23) a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Pretoria. Crowds gathered in front of the Israeli Embassy as Julius Malema, renewed calls for the closure of the embassy and urged retailers to stop selling Israeli goods. Monday marked the 17th day of the latest Israel-Hamas war that […]

Authorities say more than 1,300 sub-Saharan African migrants reached Spain’s Canary Islands, a seven-island Atlantic archipelago, this weekend. One vessel carried a record 321 people. Another record was set earlier this month when 8,561 migrants arrived on the islands in the first two weeks of October. Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has attributed the record […]

The United States has suspended most financial assistance to the central African country of Gabon in response to August’s military takeover. “The United States has concluded that a military coup d’état has taken place in Gabon,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement released Monday. Miller said the aid had been temporarily paused […]

For the second day in a row, trucks carrying aid have crossed from Egypt into war-torn Gaza, as Israel intensified strikes on the Palestinian enclave in the war sparked by Hamas’s bloody attack. Seventeen aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Sunday, to provide assistance to the Palestinian territory, which has been bombarded […]

Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum is with his family and is doing well, a relatives told AFP Sunday, after claims by the country’s new military rulers this week that he had tried to escape. “He is at the presidential residence [in Niamey] with his wife and son and is doing well,” the family member said, […]