ANKARA
Here are the main stories that The Anadolu Agency's English News Desk will cover on Friday, April 3, 2015:
TURKEY
ANKARA -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will receive Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
ANKARA -- Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will meet with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, PM Algirdas Butkevicius and FM Linas Antanas Linkevicius during his visit to Lithuania.
ANKARA -- Energy Minister Taner Yildiz to attend The Anadolu Agency Editor's Desk.
SPECIAL REPORT
Key policies of top UK parties ahead of May election.
By Karim Adel El-Sayed
ANKARA (AA) -- At the close of the first week of the official U.K. general election campaign, The Anadolu Agency looks at the key policies of the six most influential parties in British politics.
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Muslims from different Asian and African countries are expected in South Africa for a three-day annual Ijtima in Johannesburg. Delegates will listen to lectures by different scholars and connect with fellow believers.
SUDAN
KHARTOUM -- President Bashir launches his re-election campaign.
SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN
SANAA -- Follow up on Saudi-led military operation against Houthi militants in Yemen.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Somalia's Bantus demand rights (photos).
By Yassin Juma
MOGADISHU (AA) – Between the two only permanent rivers in arid Somalia, the Juba and Shabelle, lays one of the most fertile lands in the continent. It is Somalia's food basket and a land that has been fought over by successive warlords during two decades of conflict. This is the home of a minority community known as the Jareerwayne, or Somali Bantu, who number one million out of the country's population of 10 million.
Economic hardship overshadows Easter in S. Africa.
By Hassan Isilow
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – Many South Africans will miss out on the traditional trip to their ancestral homes during the upcoming Easter holiday due to the rising cost of living.
Christians and Muslims divided over Liberia's state religion.
By Evelyn T. Kpadeh
MONROVIA (AA) – As Liberians continue debating proposed changes to the country's constitution, calls have emerged to reinstate Christianity as the state's official religion, sending shockwaves through the Muslim community, which wants the state to maintain its secular nature.
SE ASIA-PACIFIC
CHINA
BEIJING -- Former security chief Zhou Yongkang formally charged with bribery, abuse of power and intentional disclosure of state secrets.
THAILAND
BANGKOK -- U.S., EU and Thai media associations condemn "absolute power" granted to junta chief-cum-Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha.
BANGKOK -- Word Health Organization says will it investigate one of its officials after his Ethiopian domestic worker accused his family of treating her like a slave.
PHILIPPINES
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- At least five people dead, 14 rescued, after boat with around 50 onboard capsized in waters off Sulu island province in Muslim south.
