Africa Parrot

Justice D U. Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, issued a bench warrant on James Richard Nolan, a Briton, for jumping bail and failing to appear before him for trial. Nolan, one of the directors of Goidel Resources Limited, a Designated Non-Financial Institution, DNFI, and another company, ICIL Limited, […]

Medical staff saved the life of a pilgrim whose heart stopped beating for two minutes while performing the Umrah rituals in Mecca, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday. The Pakistani patient suffered an aortic valve stenosis which blocked blood flow and caused their heart to stop. They were rushed to the al-Haram Hospital […]

Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption authority has arrested a judge who allegedly received a bribe to influence his ruling. The National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nazaha) tweeted on Monday saying that a judge had taken a $133,000 (500,000 riyal) bribe, an initial payment out of a total of $1.06 million (4,000,000 riyals). The judge, Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz al-Juhani, from […]

The US Navy said Tuesday it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among bags of fertilizer aboard a ship bound to Yemen from Iran, the first-such seizure in that country’s yearslong war as a cease-fire there has broken down. The US Coast Guard ship USCGC John Scheuerman and guided-missile destroyer USS The […]

UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed inaugurated the new Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Indonesia’s city of Solo with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday, the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported. The two leaders performed a ‘greetings prayer’ upon entering the mosque for the first time and signed a commemorative plaque that will be hung […]

Tiffany Trump, daughter of former US President Donald Trump, married her Lebanese fiancé Michael Boulos on Saturday at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Although the wedding was almost threatened by the arrival of Hurricane Nicole, the ceremony took place at 4:30 p.m. at the club and private residence of the former president and went ahead […]

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have offered their condolences and condemned a deadly bomb attack in central Istanbul on Sunday, which killed at least six people dead. The Kingdom’s King Salman, as well as the Crown Prince and President, sent cables to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Saudi Press Agency […]

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday has sacked Charles Adu Boahen, minister of state for finance, after allegations of corruption were circulated by popular Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. A statement from the presidency states that the president fired Mr Adu Boahen after being made aware of allegations levelled against him in an expose, […]

US President Joe Biden said on Sunday he was “incredibly pleased” with the turnout in the US election, as the Democrats looked on course to keep control of the Senate next year after the party’s candidate won re-election in Nevada. Speaking to reporters in Cambodia ahead of an East Asia Summit, Biden said the turnout […]

The Bayonne Police Department is mourning one of its own after a police captain died suddenly while on duty. “It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the death of Bayonne Police Department Captain Paul Jamolawicz,” said Police Chief Robert Geisler in a statement. “Captain Jamolawicz died unexpectedly tonight while on-duty serving our […]

Iranian activists behind protests over Mahsa Amini’s death called on Saturday for major demonstrations next week, marking three years since a bloody crackdown on unrest sparked by fuel price hikes. The call to commemorate those slain in the 2019 protests on Tuesday comes as Iran grapples with more than eight weeks of nationwide demonstrations that […]

Ethiopia’s government and Tigrayan rebels have agreed to facilitate immediate humanitarian access to “all in need” in war-ravaged Tigray and neighbouring regions. Saturday’s agreement followed talks in the Kenyan capital Nairobi this week on the full implementation of a deal signed between the warring sides 10 days ago in South Africa to end the brutal […]

The African Union Chairman and President of Senegal, Macky Sall has planned to attend an upcoming G20 summit in Bali, two government officials said on Friday. Sall’s visit, his first to a G20 summit, would come after his participation in the COP27 UN climate meeting in Egypt, where he was a major campaigner for affluent […]

Turkey has appointed an ambassador to Israel after a gap of four years in the latest step towards normalizing ties with the Jewish state. Sakir Ozkan Torunlar, a veteran diplomat who had served as Turkey’s consul general in Jerusalem between 2010 and 2014, was named to the post in a presidential decree late Friday, Turkish […]

Twitter’s relaunched premium service was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved. The premium service, Twitter Blue, grants blue-check “verification” labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month. It’s the latest whiplash-inducing change to the service where uncertainty has become the norm […]

A mosque in the Bronx has been welcoming migrants from Africa for a year and a half. Imam Omar Niass of the Bronx has been welcoming migrants from Africa for a year and a half now, housing adult single men, mostly from Senegal, in his mosque. At one point, he had over 150 men staying […]

The Gambian Inspector General of Police, Abdoulie Sanyang, has received Golden Star Award. This was disclosed in a congratulatory message by the Gambia Police Force on Friday November 11, 2022. “The Gambia Police Force joins the rest of Africa in congratulating the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Abdoulie Sanyang Esq., for being conferred Golden Star […]

Iran’s top diplomat has accused Western countries of promoting violence in the Islamic republic. This, he said, was made possible through helping protesters to make weapons and Molotov cocktails. Street violence has flared across Iran since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, after her arrest for allegedly flouting the country’s […]