African leaders offered condolences and pledged their assistance, as rescuers in Turkey and Syria continued to search through the rubble for survivors following the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that leveled wide swaths of the region. The initial quake, with an epicenter near Nurdaği, was followed by dozens of aftershocks that leveled buildings…
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Turkey’s ambassador to Tunisia has denied reports that extremist fighters from Syria are being transferred to Libya, a claim that has circulated in Libyan news outlets aligned with General Khalifa Haftar and the Libyan National Army (LNA) based in the country’s east. The new ambassador in Tunis, Refik Ali Onaner,…
The United States government has put its previously threatened economic sanctions on Turkey into force, targeting top Turkish government agencies and officials as tensions between the two nations in the Middle East continued to escalate. “The Turkish government’s actions are endangering innocent civilians and destabilizing the region, including undermining the…
The African nations on the United Nations Security Council voted in favor Tuesday of Russia’s resolution on the chemical weapons situation in Syria which – along with one introduced by the United States – failed to pass. It was the latest in the long struggle to achieve consensus and act…
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Botswana is the only African nation among the 26 countries so far making financial contributions to support an investigation into serious crimes committed during the Syrian conflict. The International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) will be led by Catherine Marchi-Uhel, a French judge appointed this week to lead the IIIM….
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to adopt a resolution Wednesday that would condemn the use of chemical weapons in Syria and appeal to its government to cooperate with an investigation. Ten of the UNSC members voted in favor of the resolution, including Egypt and Senegal, while Ethiopia abstained…
The United States launched dozens of Tomahawk missiles in an attack on a Syrian airfield early Friday, in what U.S. President Donald Trump said was a response to the use of chemical weapons on civilians in Idlib earlier in the week. About 60 missiles were launched from the USS Ross…
Egyptian authorities said Tuesday that they had arrested five people in connection with a troubling photo shoot involving a child, which they planned to pass off on social media as images from the Aleppo crisis in Syria. Security officials near the Suez Canal discovered the Port Said residents, who were…
“Has Africa even come up in this debate?” That’s what one person weighing in on social media wanted to know, and he wasn’t the only one to notice the absence of discussion about African nations and foreign policy during the final U.S. presidential debate. Watching in the wee hours, some…
Russian and Egyptian forces begin joint military exercises this weekend at Al-Alamein, a city on the Mediterranean coast to the west of Alexandria. The nine-day exercise runs through October 26 and will focus on strategies for removing armed terrorists in a desert environment. It is one of 30 such exercises Egypt…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times