Fakhri Barghouti grimaced in pain as an exultant crowd lifted him onto their shoulders next to his son Shadi, released from an Israeli jail on Saturday under a Gaza ceasefire deal. Though Barghouti, 71, shed tears of joy at seeing his son, he was also in physical pain. The night before, Israeli forces stormed his family home in the occupied West Bank village of Kobar, warning him not to celebrate his son’s release and assaulting him, he said. “They entered after midnight, smashed everything, took me into a side room and beat me before leaving,” Barghouti told AFP. “I…
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Sudan’s army chief said Saturday that a transitional government would be formed soon, as the military makes major gains against rival paramilitaries in the capital and central parts of the war-torn country. Speaking in Port Sudan, the country’s de facto capital, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the new administration — described as either a “caretaker government” or a “war government” — would be composed of “independent” experts. “We are seeking to form a government in the coming period that will complete the tasks of transition,” Burhan said. He added that its main objective would be to help “accomplish the remaining…
A suspected jihadist attack on a convoy escorted by Malian soldiers and Russia’s Wagner mercenaries has killed 32 people in northern Mali, officials said on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday between the northern cities of Gao and Ansongo, they said. The death toll was initially put at 10 but soon rose to 32. “We have more than 30 bodies from the scene,” said a hospital source in Gao. “The jihadists ambushed a civilian convoy escorted by Malian soldiers and Wagner mercenaries,” a local official told AFP, requesting anonymity. “There are civilians and soldiers among the dead.” A…
El Salvador’s Congress, with support from anti-gang crusader President Nayib Bukele, has approved tougher punishments for corruption and several violent crimes, including doubling the maximum prison sentence for murder to 60 years. Bukele has carried out a sweeping crackdown on crime, including rounding up suspects without warrants and opening a maximum-security prison — Latin America’s largest. Bukele’s crackdown on street gangs has led to a sharp fall in homicides and is praised by many Salvadorans, although rights groups have criticized his methods as ignoring people’s basic rights. Under the new laws passed Friday, the crime of aggravated homicide will…
Horror swept through the crowd of onlookers in Tel Aviv’s “Hostage Square” on Saturday as the three emaciated faces of hostages freed by Hamas in Gaza appeared on screen. Ohad Ben Ami, Eli Sharabi and Or Levy appeared to the crowds of supporters, on the huge display in the square, flanked by Hamas fighters during the fifth such release of hostages as part of an ongoing ceasefire deal for Gaza. It was the first time, however, since the ceasefire came into effect on January 19 that hostages released by Hamas appeared so physically marked by their ordeal. The hundreds…
17 hours ago The director of the film, an actor, playwright, director of stage plays, films and curator of visual arts, Awam Amkpa is a Nigerian-American professor of drama, film, and social and cultural analysis at the New York University in New York and Abu Dhabi. 18 hours ago It was the accomplished filmmaker and member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Femi Odugbemi, who first broke the cheery news on his social media handles. The news was that The Man Died, the film that takes audiences through Wole Soyinka 2 days ago The Nollywood film industry…
South Africa condemned on Saturday US President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze aid to the country over a law he alleged allows land The post South Africa condemns 'misinformation' after Trump freeze aid appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.
US President Donald Trump announced Friday he will name himself to be chairman of the Kennedy Center, putting his aggressive rightwing stamp on Washington’s premier cultural venue. Trump broke the news in a post on his social media platform as he engages in a blizzard of policy changes upending the city and the country, attacking people, causes and policies he says are dangerously left wing. In a way, this appointment is another form of retribution, which Trump is seeking in his second term as he goes after perceived enemies: in his first term, from 2017 to 2021, the Republican…
Leaders of Central Africa demanded the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group stop its offensive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and called on Friday for the opening of an aid pipeline. “We strongly condemn the M23 armed group supported by Rwanda and call upon them to immediately end their offensive,” representatives from the 11-nation Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) said in a statement after an emergency meeting of the group’s peace and security council. “We call for the immediate withdrawal of the Rwandan armed forces from Congolese territory,” the heads of state and government officials added after the…
President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg’s denials. The law would “enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,” Trump said in an executive order, which also noted foreign policy clashes between the two countries over the Middle East. Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa with most farmland still owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid and the government under pressure to…