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By AP Yemeni government forces were fighting Houthis on and near the Bab el Mandeb Strait, a vital maritime traffic waterway. In a Sky News Exclusive aired on Sunday, footage showed armed Yemeni government forces nearby the Bab el Mandeb Strait. Houthis fighters were also nearby the area, according to Sky News correspondents. “What’s happening now is different to our previous wars with the Houthis,” said Tafiq Al-Haboun, Commander of Larj National Security Forces, adding that it was much more advanced. “They have superior weapons like drones, Kornets and long-range ballistic missiles. All of these weapons are only just now…
By Rédaction Africanews Authorities began on Sunday to remove a migrant camp on the beach of Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, ahead of a mid-October visit by Spain’s king and queen, police said. The camp sprang up in the wake of a July 30-31 influx into the tiny territory of more than 70,000 people from neighbouring Morocco. Although most of them returned to Morocco within days, thousands remain in Ceuta, sleeping rough in the streets or on the beach. The sudden inflow, during which scores died, sparked alarm across the European Union and created a political crisis for Madrid.…
By GERALD IMRAY A Laotian citizen deported by the United States to Eswatini under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown was released from a maximum-security prison in the African nation on Sunday after being held there for more than a year, his lawyer said. Phone Chomsavanh was among five immigrants deported to Eswatini — where he has no ties — in July 2025 in the early days of the Trump administration’s secretive and highly contentious third-country deportation program. Chomsavanh’s U.S.-based lawyer, Tin Thanh Nguyen, said in a statement announcing his release that he had only been informed that he was being…
By DENNIS NIPAH and EDWARD ACQUAH The Indigenous Akuapem people in eastern Ghana celebrated this week their military victory over the Ashanti Empire 200 years ago, a vast, sprawling and powerful 18th-century West African state. The battle helped reshape the area into what has become part of modern Ghana. The empire might be long gone, but the battle has not faded from memory. Two centuries later, the Akuapem people still come together to honor their victory by reenacting the war. The festival, called Akuapem Odwira, is also a means of purification, spiritual renewal and thanksgiving, they say. The two-week-long celebration,…
By EDITH M. LEDERER On Jan. 1, the next United Nations secretary-general will take over an aging organization still controlled by World War II powers. What will the world need from that person? Once a major player in solving conflicts and crises around the world, the 81-year-old institution has been sidelined from the top table in trying to end the wars in Iran, Ukraine and Gaza. And its precarious financial situation — caused mainly by the billions of dollars the United States owes — has forced major cuts to its humanitarian and development programs where it has remained a key…
By Al Jazeera Somalia will not accept Israeli presence in the country “under any circumstances” and will resist any attempts to be pulled into the Middle East’s crises, its President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tells Al Jazeera. Speaking in an exclusive interview, Mohamud said that Israel was planning to establish a naval base in Berbera and use the city’s airport, adding that its real aim was to get closer to the Gulf states and Iran. end of listBerbera is a port city on the Gulf of Aden coast in Somaliland – the self-declared republic in northwestern Somalia that Israel recognised last…
Author, food educator and culinary curator Ozoz Sokoh has devoted her career to exploring the shared cultural links between foods within and outside Africa. It’s work that hasn’t gone unappreciated. Her cookbook “Chop Chop: Cooking the food of Nigeria” won a prestigious James Beard “Emerging Voice in Books” award, a Nautilus Gold award and was named a New York Times Best Cookbook of 2025. Showcasing recipes and stories from the country’s six regions, Nigeria-born Sokoh says she wanted the book to “create a foundational understanding of Nigerian cuisine and reflect to people all the ways we’re similar, in spite of…
Almost 40 years after “A Different World” first showed TV viewers life at the fictional Hillman College, a new generation of students is arriving. Now, in the Netflix sequel, the show’s view of Black college life includes more of the African diaspora. One of the new students at Hillman in the 10-episode-reboot is Kojo Achebe, a Ghanaian Nigerian international student from London who wants to be a fashion designer. He is played by British Nigerian actor Chibuikem Uche, who draws on his own family and culture to bring the character to life. Showrunner Felicia Pride made a deliberate choice to…
By Rédaction Africanews with AP The United Nations says at least 150,000 people have fled their homes in Yemen due to renewed fighting that has killed hundreds. This follows the rapid advance by the Iran-backed Houthi fighters’ down the country’s western coast to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in recent weeks. The rebel group has been involved in clashes with Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. “We came under attack by the Houthis at around 6pm., and we left our home with nothing but the clothes we were wearing,” said Abu Walid who did not give his real name out of fear for…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP Loud explosions were heard in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Saturday, as the Houthis reported airstrikes in the area by Saudi forces. Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-affiliated media outlet, reported “Saudi aggression” against the capital, without providing details on the targets or casualties. The channel had earlier reported missile strikes on the telecommunications network in the north-western governorate of Saada, a Houthi stronghold. Saudi Arabia bombed the Yemeni capital on Thursday night for the first time since renewed fighting broke out between the two sides in July, the Houthis claimed. After several years of calm,…