DUBAI: The UAE and Brazil have launched a partnership to exchange knowledge and expertise in economic fields as part of a Government Experience Exchange Program, Emirates News Agency reported on Sunday.
The new partnership was announced during a visit by a Brazilian official delegation headed by Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo, president of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense, to the UAE.
WAD MADANI, Sudan: Residents of Khartoum awoke Sunday to artillery and rocket fire, hours after an air strike in the city’s south killed at least 20 civilians including two children, according to Sudanese activists.“The death toll from the aerial bombardment” in southern Khartoum “has risen to 20 civilian fatalities,” according to a statement by the neighborhood’s resistance committee. They are among many volunteer groups that used to organize pro-democracy demonstrations and now provide assistance to families caught in the crossfire between the army and paramilitary fighters.
TUNIS: Tunisian authorities placed Abdel Karim Harouni, the senior official in the opposition Ennahda Islamist Party, under house arrest, the country’s main opposition coalition said on Saturday.
Harouni heads the Shoura Council, the highest-ranking body in Ennahda, which was the biggest political party in the parliament closed by President Kais Saied in 2021.
The Salvation Front coalition said “the arbitrary decision” against Harouni was in the context of the arrest of leaders of Ennahda and the closure of its headquarters.
