Mo Salah: A day in the life of the ‘Egyptian King’
Mohamed Salah is smiling.
They ended one week of strikes
Nurses in Zimbabwe have called off their strike Monday and sued their employers.
Deported to Libya, Ex-Gitmo Detainees Vanish. Will Others Meet a Similar Fate?
Deported to Libya, Ex-Gitmo Detainees Vanish. Will Others Meet a Similar Fate? Photo The system set up under President Barack Obama to send low-level Guantánamo detainees to stable countries is at risk of collapsing under President Trump, current and former officials said. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters WASHINGTON — In President Barack Obama’s drive to close the Guantánamo prison, his administration struck deals with about three dozen nations to take in lower-risk detainees from dangerous countries. Resettling them in stable places would increase the chances they would live peacefully, officials argued, rather than face persecution or drift into Islamist militancy.
But a decision this month by Senegal to deport two former detainees to their chaotic birth country of Libya has raised the prospect that the resettlement system is starting to collapse under President Trump. After a traumatic journey, the Libyans fell into the hands of a hard-line militia leader who has been accused of prisone..
They stopped a Russian nuclear deal
Two South African environment champions have won the Goldman prize for stopping a Russian nuclear deal.
Why Kenya is having a record revival
Inside a record store in Kenyatta market, Nairobi, crate-digging enthusiasts search for African music gems. At stall 570 vinyl culture is thriving.
By Stifling Migration, Sudan’s Feared Secret Police Aid Europe
By Stifling Migration, Sudan’s Feared Secret Police Aid Europe Photo Undocumented immigrants arrested last year by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. The European Union has made the country a nerve center for an effort to counter human smuggling, but many migration advocates say the moral cost is high. Credit Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters ABU JAMAL, Sudan — At Sudan’s eastern border, Lt. Samih Omar led two patrol cars slowly over the rutted desert, past a cow’s carcass, before halting on the unmarked 2,000-mile route that thousands of East Africans follow each year in trying to reach the Mediterranean, and then onward to Europe.
His patrols along this border with Eritrea are helping Sudan crack down on one of the busiest passages on the European migration trail. Yet Lieutenant Omar is no simple border agent. He works for Sudan’s feared secret police, whose leaders are accused of war crimes — and, more recently, whose officers have been accused of torturing migrants.
Indirectly, he is al..
Colossal statue of ‘forgotten’ pharaoh brought to life
Archaeologists have virtually reconstructed a statue of ancient Egyptian King Psamtik I, after uncovering thousands of fragments.
Absolute monarch renames Swaziland
The king of Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarch, has changed the name of his country to the “Kingdom of eSwatini” to mark the 50th anniversary of independence — and to avoid confusion with Switzerland.
Fired Zimbabwe nurses offer free health care to public in protest
Fired Zimbabwean nurses offered a free clinic to the public in a demonstration outside the country's parliament Friday.
Nigeira’s Buhari faces backlash over comments on young Nigerians
President Muhammadu Buhari has faced backlash on social media over comments on Nigerian youth.