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Views: 1 Alaa Abdel Fattah spent most of the past decade behind bars and his detention has become a symbol of Egypt’s return to autocratic rule under President el-Sisi. gyptian authorities have refused to release dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah despite serving out his five-year sentence, his sister said Sunday. Abdel Fattah, 42, was arrested on September 29, […]

Views: 4 Nigeria’s banking reserves surged to N26.8 trillion in August 2024, a substantial increase from N19.4 trillion a year earlier, as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) continues its aggressive monetary tightening under Governor Yemi Cardoso. The jump comes in response to the CBN’s efforts to contain rising inflation and curtail excessive liquidity in the financial

Views: 5 H.E. Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan Al Nahyan also participated in the launch event for Liberia’s UN Security Council campaign. ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, September 29, 2024/APO Group/ –The United Arab Emirates’ delegation continued its participation in several key high-level meetings during the fourth day of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly

Views: 2 Russia has destroyed no fewer than 125 Ukrainian drones over its territory. The Ukrainian Defence Ministry revealed this on Sunday, with regional governors reporting some damage but no casualties from the attack. In a post on its Telegram, the ministry said 125 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs were destroyed and intercepted by air defence systems

Views: 2 CENTCOM says strikes ‘will disrupt ISIS’ capability to conduct operations against US interests; also targeted Islamic State training camp earlier this month, killing 28 terrorists. In Syria, 37 terrorists affiliated to the jihadist Islamic State group and an al-Qaeda-linked group were killed in two strikes, the United States military said Sunday. Two of