AFP, BANJUL, Gambia: Gambia’s exiled strongman Yahya Jammeh plundered millions of dollars in his final weeks in power leaving state coffers “empty”, an aide to new President Adama Barrow said as West African troops prepared to secure his arrival. Jammeh flew out of The Gambia on Saturday,…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Powerful weekend storms roared through the southeastern United States, killing 18 people as violent weather left a trail of destruction, authorities said. Families in Dougherty County in the state of Georgia huddled on the side of a road Sunday, surveying the wrath of a storm that destroyed…

AFP, CAIRO: Key developments in Egypt since its January 2011 uprising that brought down president Hosni Mubarak who ruled for three decades: The revolution…

AFP, MOKHA, Yemen: Yemeni government forces captured on Monday the port of Mokha as they pushed to oust Huthi rebels from the Red Sea coastline, an AFP journalist said.Government forces were combing the port, a journalist accompanying the troops said, almost three weeks after the loyalists launched…

AFP, CAIRO: The Egyptian army said Monday that assailants killed five soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces have been targeted in a spate of jihadist attacks. “The armed forces mourn with great sadness and sorrow the five martyrs who were martyred in Sinai at the hands of disloyal…

AFP, KUALA LUMPUR: Ten people are confirmed dead and about 30 missing after a boat believed to be carrying Indonesian illegal immigrants capsized in rough seas off Malaysia, officials said Monday. The bodies of six women and four men were washed ashore at a beach near the east coast town of Mersing…