The International Monetary Fund said it had approved $7.6 million debt relief to Burundi to help address the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It said the relief for three months would be potentially raised to $24.97 million over the next 21 months if resources are available. “IMF debt relief will help free up resources […]

Counting continued on Monday in Syria after voters cast their votes to choose a new parliament for the war-torn and economically troubled country. The election took place in Syria on Sunday without any real opposition to President Bashar al-Assad’s Baath Party. According to a member in the election committee, mainly 90 per cent of the […]

Muslims gathered in the Kenyan city of Mombasa for Friday prayers for the first time since March when all places of worship were ordered to close as part of coronavirus restrictions. The authorities have now allowed them to reopen but only if strict rules are followed. At Arab Boys Mosque, no children or old people […]

The US Commerce Department on Monday announced it has blacklisted 11 Chinese businesses for involvement in human rights violations against the Uighur minority, cutting off the firms’ access to American goods. Washington, together with other western nations and rights groups, has accused Beijing of interning at least a million Muslims from the Uighur ethnic group […]

Sudan’s former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, faces trial from Tuesday over the military coup that brought him to power more than three decades ago. Bashir, 76, who is already behind bars for corruption, could face the death penalty if convicted over his 1989 coup against the democratically […]