January 28, 2023   Officials said the man helped facilitate a network of ISIS affiliates around the world. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, said Bilal al-Sudani was a key member of the terrorist group, which is growing in Africa. ALEX BRANDON/AP   By Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper | The New York Times   WASHINGTON – U.S. Special Operations ...

  January 27, 2023   Lawyer and political expert Hamadi Redissi said the new assembly would ‘not have to approve the government, nor can it censor it without a two-thirds majority’ of both parliament & a council of regional representatives, whose make-up has yet to be defined A man walks past an electoral billboard for the Tunisian national election scheduled ...

  January 27, 2023   By U.S. AFRICA COMMAND   The U.S. military conducted a successful counterterrorism operation in Somalia STUTTGART, Germany – The U.S. military conducted a successful counterterrorism operation in Somalia. Additional details will be provided in the coming days. Given the remote location of the operation, the assessment is that no civilians were injured or killed. Protecting ...

  January 26, 2023   An air raid alert wailed across the country as people were heading to work. File/AFP   By Olena Harmash and Tom Balmforth | REUTERS   Russian warplanes launched a wave of missiles at Ukraine during rush hour on Thursday morning and Ukrainians took cover in shelters as air defence forces shot down incoming salvos, officials ...

  January 25, 2023   Geneva – The International Air Transport Association (IATA) welcomes the reclassification of airspace over Somalia and the surrounding region to Class A. This will take place at one minute past midnight on 26 January 2023 when air traffic control services will be operationally restored after a 30-year disruption. Some of the region’s busiest airways – ...

  January 25, 2023   An M23 rebels stand with theirs weapons during a ceremony to mark the withdrawal from their positions in the town of Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, on Dec. 23, 2022. The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels ...

  January 24, 2023   Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is interviewed by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, in front of an audience at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, U.S., October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis   By REUTERS   WASHINGTON – Documents marked as classified were discovered at former US Vice-President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, ...

  January 24, 2023   Trial begins in Brooklyn court for Genaro García Luna, who is accused of protecting the violent Sinaloa cartel Genaro García Luna in Mexico City, Mexico on 29 November 2012. Photograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters   By Oscar Lopez in Mexico City and Agencies   The trial of a former top Mexican law enforcement official got under way ...

  January 24, 2023   By U.S. AFRICA COMMAND   STUTTGART, Germany – At the request of the Federal Government of Somalia and in support of Somali National Army engagements against al-Shabaab, U.S. Africa Command conducted a collective self-defense strike on Jan. 23, 2023. The strike occurred in a remote area near Xaradheere, Somalia, approximately 396 km northeast of Mogadishu ...

  January 24, 2023   Authorities in Eswatini must launch a probe into the killing of a prominent human rights lawyer gunned down this past weekend, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Monday. © Unsplash/S’mile Vilakati Eswatini’s capital city, Mbabane.   By UN Org   Thulani Maseko, who was also a pro-democracy activist, was shot dead ...