Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has said he discussed his country’s listing by the US as a state sponsor of terror with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on his visit to Khartoum. Sudan wants to be removed from the list so sanctions can be lifted. The country has been listed since the 1990s when al-Qaeda…
Tunisia’s prime minister-designate on Tuesday unveiled the country’s second government in six months, which must now seek approval from lawmakers incensed by how the administration was formed. Hichem Mechichi had previously declared his intention to form a cabinet dominated by independent technocrats able to “present urgent solutions” for a country where a sluggish economy has been further…
Discussions due to resume on Monday with negotiators saying compromises have been reached. The military government that seized power in Mali wants a military-led transitional body to rule the country for three years and has agreed to release deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, a source in a visiting West African delegation said on Sunday. “The junta…
Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta has resigned, after being detained by soldiers on Tuesday. In a televised address he said he was also dissolving the government and parliament, adding: “I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power.” He and PM Boubou Cissé were taken to a military camp near the capital…
Residents, security sources say gunfire heard at army base in Kati, about 15km outside capital Bamako. Gunfire has been heard at an army base near Mali’s capital, Bamako, with the Norwegian embassy talking of a possible military mutiny amid an ongoing political crisis in the Sahel state. Soldiers on Tuesday fired their guns into the…
Monitoring Defense and security from August 10th to 17th 2020-CC
Current studies show that the Novavax vaccine administered on non-human primates has shown protection against SARS-Cov-2 infection in the nasal passages and lung disease. The University of WITS has launched a second COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa by US-based biotech company Novavax. The clinical trial starts on the heels of another vaccine trial which started…
Terrifying Violence Several dead and around many more wounded Sunday evening after a thunderous car suicide bomber exploded the security gates of an upscale hotel open in the Lido beach area of Mogadishu, Somalia. In what was a terrifying and chaotic episode of violence. According to Col. Ahmed Aden, a police officer, the attackers invaded…
ISIL-linked fighters capture Mocimboa da Praia port close to a major gas field following days of fighting. Fighters captured a heavily defended port in the far northern Mozambique town of Mocimboa da Praia, close to the site of natural gas projects worth some $60bn. It was one of several attacks on the town – 60km…
A Region Under Water Soaking wet with no dry land in sight, Bor South and Twic East counties in Jonglei, Eastern South Sudan are inundated by heavy and incessant rains with the water level rising to 1.5 meters. Many homes have been destroyed, some have even lost their lives and around 200,000 people have already…