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Basketball: NBA co-launches new African league to involve 12 nations

The US National Basketball Association (NBA), in association with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), will launch as of January a new African Basketball League that will involve 12 African nations for a yearly tournament, Reuters reports. The first tournament in January 2020 will gather 12 national teams. Angola, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tunisia will […]

Burkina Faso: at least 24 killed in attack on Protestant church  

At least 24 people were killed Sunday in a jihadist attack against a Protestant church in Pansi, a village in northern Burkina Faso, according to security and local sources. The pastor of the church was kidnapped by Islamist terrorists. Several people fled to the town of Sebba, where five people, including a pastor, were assassinated […]

US Defense Secretary confirms Iran plotted to assassinate Saudi FM

US Secretary of Defense Tuesday told US CBS that Iran sponsored an assassination attempt on his friend and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir in 2011 when he was Saudi ambassador to Washington James Mattis told CBS’s Face the Nation that Iran directed two assassins to plant explosives to target Al-Jubeir while he was in Washington. […]