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Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls for the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month. “The leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, meets a delegation from the...

Thousands of people have rallied in Bangladesh’s capital to demand the prosecution of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and those responsible for hundreds of deaths in a mass uprising against her government in July. The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement organized what it called the March for...

The Taliban government says it will close all national and foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) employing women in Afghanistan. In a letter published on X on Sunday night, the country’s Ministry of Economy warned that failure to comply with the latest order would lead to NGOs losing their...

Polls have closed in Chad’s first parliamentary election in 13 years, which the government has presented as a key step towards ending a military rule. Provisional results are expected by January 15 and final results by January 31 in the large, mainly desert Central African nation of 18 million...

Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, says holding elections in the war-ravaged country could take as long as four years. It is the first time the new Syrian leader has commented on a possible electoral timetable since opposition fighters, led by al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), ousted...

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko said Friday that his government would submit legislation to repeal a law by former president Macky Sall granting amnesty for deadly political violence. The controversial amnesty was granted just before March 2024 elections as Sall sought to calm protests...

Mozambique’s president-elect has called for “non-violence” and “unity” after widespread rioting this week sparked by his governing party’s contested election win. Daniel Chapo, of the long-governing Frelimo party, said on Friday that he “regretted” the violence, and promised that after his...

Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has reached an agreement with rebel factions to come together as one force under the Defense Ministry, according to the new Syrian general administration. A meeting between al-Sharaa and the heads of the groups “ended in an agreement on the dissolution of all...

At least 21 people have been killed in unrest since Mozambique’s top court confirmed the governing party Frelimo’s victory in disputed elections, the interior minister says. A total of “236 acts of serious violence were reported” since Monday across the Portuguese-speaking African country, in which...

Syria’s new rulers have pledged to create special tribunals for those who have “committed crimes against Syrians” under deposed President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to the interim government’s spokesman. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid, Obaid Arnaut said a key part of the...