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Tunisian President Saied Files Paperwork to Run in October's Election

A supporter of Tunisian President Kais Saied hold his image as he stands under a huge national flag, during a rally along the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, on July 25, 2024, as the nation celebrates the 67th anniversary of foundation of the republic. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
A supporter of Tunisian President Kais Saied hold his image as he stands under a huge national flag, during a rally along the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, on July 25, 2024, as the nation celebrates the 67th anniversary of foundation of the republic. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
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Tunisian President Saied Files Paperwork to Run in October's Election

A supporter of Tunisian President Kais Saied hold his image as he stands under a huge national flag, during a rally along the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, on July 25, 2024, as the nation celebrates the 67th anniversary of foundation of the republic. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
A supporter of Tunisian President Kais Saied hold his image as he stands under a huge national flag, during a rally along the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunis, on July 25, 2024, as the nation celebrates the 67th anniversary of foundation of the republic. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Tunisian President Kais Saied filed papers Monday to run in the October presidential election, where he is expected to face little competition.
Saied submitted 242,224 signatures from registered voters to qualify for inclusion on the Oct. 6 ballot in the North African nation, The Associated Press said.
Four other candidates have gathered signatures to run including Abir Moussi, a right-wing critic of the president who has been behind bars since she staged a protest outside his residence last year. Her attorneys said they filed her paperwork on Sunday.
Tunisia will publish a complete list of candidates by Saturday. The Independent High Authority for Elections requires candidates gather 10,000 signatures to appear on ballots.
Political participation has waned in Tunisia since the country's longtime Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in 2011. Last year's local elections saw a turnout of 11%.

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Heavy Rains Kill Nine in War-torn Sudan

FILE PHOTO: A person drives a vehicle through a flooded street, following a heavy rainfall in Kassala, eastern Sudan, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdel Majid/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A person drives a vehicle through a flooded street, following a heavy rainfall in Kassala, eastern Sudan, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdel Majid/File Photo
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Heavy Rains Kill Nine in War-torn Sudan

FILE PHOTO: A person drives a vehicle through a flooded street, following a heavy rainfall in Kassala, eastern Sudan, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdel Majid/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A person drives a vehicle through a flooded street, following a heavy rainfall in Kassala, eastern Sudan, July 26, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdel Majid/File Photo

Heavy rains have triggered building collapses that have killed nine people in northern Sudan, as the country reels from almost 16 months of fighting between rival security forces, a medic told AFP Tuesday.

"Nine people have died as a result of their houses collapsing," said an employee at a hospital in Abu Hamad, a small town in Sudan's Nile state, some 400 kilometres (nearly 250 miles) north of Khartoum.

"Many injured people continue to arrive at the hospital", the source added.

Each year in August, peak flow on the Nile is accompanied by heavy rains, destroying homes, wrecking infrastructure and claiming lives, both directly and indirectly through water-borne diseases.

The impact is expected to be worse this year after more than a year of fighting that has pushed millions of displaced people into flood zones.

"Heavy rains caused most of the houses to collapse and all the shops in the market collapsed," a witness in Abu Hamad told AFP by telephone.

Last week, a flash flood caused the deaths of five people in Port Sudan, on the Red Sea coast.

Aid groups have repeatedly warned that humanitarian access, already hampered by the war, will be made near-impossible in some areas as the rainy season hits.

Sudan faces what the United Nations has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis in recent memory, as fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces shows no sign of abating.

Some 10.5 million people have been forced from their homes, while the main battlegrounds teeter on the brink of all-out famine.

The war has already pushed the nearly half a million residents of the Zamzam camp outside the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher into famine, a UN-backed assessment said last week.