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‘AI aunt’ app built for domestic abuse survivors in South Africa
A horrific killing in her own family inspired Leonora Tina, a South African woman, to create an AI Aunt app, so women can safely talk about abuse. According to BCC...
Sudanese paramilitary group agrees to humanitarian truce
The Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF), announced it has agreed to a humanitarian truce proposed by a US-led mediation group, after 2 years of conflict with the Sudanese army, reports...
Sudanese paramilitary group arrests combatants over war crimes
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces announced the arrest of several of its own fighters suspected of involvement in mass atrocities, according to Maghrebi Week on November 3rd. The arrests come...
West Libyan city witnesses violent clashes between militias
The city of Misrata in Western Libya saw a series of violent clashes between rival armed groups on October 23rd, as reported by Maghrebi Week. The skirmishes broke out between...
Morocco: French priest accused of sexually abusing refugees
An investigation by Moroccan media outlet Enass has revealed sexual abuse allegations against French priest Antoine Exelmans, involving migrant children in a refugee centre in Casablanca, according to an article...
Joaquin Flores: EU leaders gamble with the Union’s future
Europe now faces a stark choice forced by its disastrous war policy against Russia: either allow the EU to successfully move toward a centralized state over the heads of its...
Water dispute sparks deadly violence in Chad, 33 killed
In southwestern Chad, a water dispute over a well triggered intercommunal violence, killing at least 33 people, according to the Anadolu Agency on 5th November. The well, which is claimed...
Pirates attack oil tanker off Somali Coast
A Malta-registered gas tanker was targeted by a group of pirates armed with grenades and machine guns off the Somali southern coast, according to BBC Africa on November 6th. The...
UK: Large police presence ahead of Maccabi Tel Aviv game
Police preparations are under way in Birmingham ahead of the controversial football match between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv on November 6th, according to Middle East Eye plus agencies....
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Libyan education minister detained over school textbook shortage
Libya’s education minister has been detained by authorities for negligence amid a school textbook shortage scandal, according to The New Arab via AFP on November...
Senegal: Ex-president treason accusations blocked by parliament
Senegal's National Assembly has blocked a proposal accusing former president, Macky Sall, of "high treason" following an alleged mishandling of finances, Africanews via Agencies reports...
French ex-president goes to jail for campaign conspiracy
Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former French president to be imprisoned after receiving a five-year sentence for funding his election campaign with money from ex-Libyan...
Former French President Sarkozy enters prison for Libya scandal
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has entered prison for obtaining illicit campaign funds from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, according to The National. Insisting he...
Former Algerian minister imprisoned for 7 years on embezzlement charges
The former Labour Minister of Algeria Tijani Hassan Haddam has been sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for embezzling more than $45 million from the nation's...
Politics
Uganda reacts to Mamdani’s mayoral victory in New York City
Following Zohran Mamdani's election as New York's first Muslim mayor, activists in Uganda, where Mamdani was born, described the event as a "big encouragement", according...
Israeli settlers stormed Jerusalem mosque 27 times in a month
A Palestinian ministry has found that Israeli settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque 27 times in October, according to the Middle East Eye and agencies on November...
Zohran Mamdani becomes New York’s first Muslim mayor
Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist from Queens, has been elected as the first Muslim mayor of New York City on the 4th of...
Mali’s lithium project takes off amidst political turmoil
Mali’s lithium project in Bougouni —which is approximately 180 km away from the capital of Bamako— continues its operations in the mine despite political turmoil...
Moroccan party urges Morocco–Algeria parliamentary friendship
On November 3rd, Abdellah Bouanou of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) proposed a Morocco-Algeria parliamentary friendship group during a joint Moroccan parliamentary session of both...
Guinea’s military commander enters presidential race
The military commander who ruled Guinea four years ago has entered the presidential race for the upcoming election. According to BBC News Africa, on November...
Tabloid
Algerian man hailed as hero after saving lives in UK attack
On November 4th, Samir Zitouni, an Algerian railway worker, was hailed as a hero for stepping in to defend people during the mass stabbing train...
Dick Cheney, former US vice president, passes away at 84
The American politician, Dick Cheney, passed away at 84 years old and was known as the Vice President under US President George W Bush, leaving...
UK: Debate grows after Israeli fans banned from football match
The UK government has intervened after Birmingham authorities decided to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending their club’s Europa League match against Aston Villa,...
US ambassador to Israel featured in “Greater Israel” song
The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, was featured in a music video singing “Sweet Home Yerushalayim,” a pro-Israeli rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Sweet Home...
Eurovision delays Israel participation vote to December
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has postponed its decision on whether Israel will participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, following what it described as...
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