Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to attend 26th General Assembly of Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association.

ANKARA - Following COVID-19 normalization process in Turkey, virus variants, worldwide pandemic situation.

US

NEW YORK - US to mark 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.

GUINEA

CONAKRY - Monitoring developments after soldiers announced detention of president, dissolution of government.

AFGHANISTAN

KABUL - Monitoring developments after Taliban formed interim government.

SPORTS

NEW YORK - UK's Emma Raducanu to take on Canadian Leylah Fernandez in 2021 US Open women's singles final

SPECIAL REPORT

African Muslims assess effect of 9/11 two decades after attack

By Anadolu Agency Staff

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - The rights of African Muslims were trampled as the US embarked on the global war on terror after the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York, according to a leading academic.

SPECIAL REPORT

'I saw the towers smoking': Photographer relives 9/11 attacks

By Andy Roesgen

CHICAGO, United States (AA) - Gary Marlon Suson is telling his story while getting his weekly intravenous drip for lung damage he suffered at the World Trade Center ground zero.

SPECIAL REPORT

US firefighter recalls 9/11 terror attack: 'It was beyond comprehension'

By Andy Roesgen

CHICAGO, United States (AA) - How is a firefighter to know that a 110-story building has collapsed in front of him?

SPECIAL REPORT

Lack of India, Bangladesh coordination leaves hilsa fish in lurch

By Md. Kamruzzaman

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) - Even as Bangladesh observes a 65-day-long ban to catch hilsa fish, to allow its breeding, the continuous fishing from the Indian side leaves this ban irrelevant, say experts.

SPECIAL REPORT

Once-skeptical congregants in Zimbabwe scramble for COVID vaccines

By Jeffrey Moyo

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AA) - Six months ago, it was taboo for 64-year-old Nehemiah Bande and his followers to accede to the coronavirus vaccines rolled out by the government.

SPECIAL REPORT

'Conflict, corruption results in deindustrialization of Congo'

By James Tasamba

KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) - Conflict and corruption are two main factors that have led to a drastic reduction of industrial activity in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the past 60 years, claim experts.