AMMAN: Jordan’s Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya discussed security cooperation with his Egyptian counterpart Mahmoud Tawfiq during an official visit to Cairo on Friday.
Jordan News Agency reported that the meeting focused on cooperation between the two ministries as well as the latest developments in security issues.
Al-Faraya lauded the technical, scientific and training capabilities that he witnessed during his visit to the Egyptian Interior Ministry.

KHARTOUM: War-torn Sudan’s capital experienced a communications blackout for several hours on Friday, residents said, as the army and paramilitary forces waged intense battles across Khartoum and humanitarian groups warned of worsening crises.
“Violent clashes” shook the capital, witnesses told AFP over the phone, after residents woke up to an outage of vital Internet and mobile phone connections.
The source of the malfunction was not clear, though mobile and Internet networks were restored by the afternoon.

HARARE: President Ebrahim Raisi has received a red carpet welcome in Zimbabwe on the last leg of the first Africa tour by an Iranian leader in 11 years.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa greeted Raisi as “my brother” on the tarmac after the Iranian
leader’s plane landed at Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare.

“When you see him you see me. When you see me you see him,” Mnangagwa told a crowd waving Zimbabwean and Iranian flags that gathered around the two heads of state.

UNITED NATIONS: The Syrian government has given the United Nations approval to use a border crossing from Turkiye to continue delivering aid to northwest Syria for another six months after the Security Council failed to renew its authorization for the operation.
The UN aid deliveries would have to be “in full cooperation and coordination with the Syrian Government,” Syria’s UN Ambassador Bassam Sabbagh wrote in a letter on Thursday to the Security Council, seen by Reuters.

TUNIS: A Tunisian judge on Thursday released two prominent political opponents of President Kais Saied, nearly five months after they were arrested on suspicion of plotting against state security services, their lawyer Monia Bouali told Reuters.
Chaima Issa and Lazahr Akremi were detained in February along with 20 other political leaders in a crackdown the opposition says aimed to establish authoritarian rule by Saied, who in 2021 dissolved parliament and seized wide-ranging powers.