MOGADISHU, Aug 16 (PRENSA LATINA) — A Somali elite unit freed 33 children in an operation against the armed group Al-Shabaab in the southwest of the Lower Shabelle region, the website hiiraan.com reported. The rescue was carried out in Kurtunwaarey, an area considered a stronghold of the insurgent group in…

Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok KHARTOUM, Aug 16 (NNN-Xinhua) — Sudan and Egypt reiterated importance of reaching a binding agreement regarding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) with commitment to negotiations to resolve the dispute. “It has been stressed on the necessity of the negotiations to reach a binding agreement…

HARARE, Aug 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate soared to almost 840 percent in July, the statistics agency said Saturday, adding to the country’s desperate economic woes even as the government refused to acknowledge a growing sense of crisis. The southern African nation has been grappling with more than…

ALGIERS, Aug 16 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Algeria has launched Islamic finance products in a bid to attract money from the informal market, but bankers warn it will take more to fix the country’s struggling economy. Falling oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic have battered the North African country, triggering alarm bells…