Diary

ANKARA (AA) - Here are the main topics Anadolu Agency’s English Desk plans to cover Monday, March 26, 2018 (coverage may change depending on developing/breaking stories):

TURKEY

ISTANBUL - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to depart to attend EU-Turkey summit in Varna, Bulgaria.

ANKARA - Prime Minister Binali Yildirim to preside over Cabinet meeting at Cankaya Palace.

GERMANY

BERLIN - Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont expected to appear before judge one day after being arrested in northern Germany, on European arrest warrant.

UNITED KINGDOM

LONDON - Parliament to debate national security and Russia in wake of March 4 poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.

LONDON - Dateline to be reached for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to appear before parliamentary committee on Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

RUSSIA

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin to hold talks with Qatar Emiri Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani.

SYRIA

IDLIB / AZAZ / AFRIN - Desk to monitor Turkish-led Operation Olive Branch against YPG/PKK-Daesh terror groups in Afrin, Syria.

EGYPT

CAIRO - Egyptians to start voting in presidential elections, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s re-election assured.

SPECIAL REPORT

Congolese refugees in Uganda recount horror stories

- Due to ongoing violence, many have fled DR Congo to Uganda in recent months

By Halima Athumani

KYANGWALI, Uganda (AA) - At 5:00 pm on Friday, an engine boat approached Sebagoro Landing site with the beaten and exhausted faces of a group of 30 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, many of them women and children.

SPECIAL REPORT

Turkish aid supports HIV orphanages in South Africa

- Turkey's state-run aid agency has been operational in South Africa for only three months but has undertaken many projects.

By Hassan Isilow

JOHANNESBURG (AA) - Turkey’s state-run aid agency is working in association with South African authorities to help refurbish orphanages, particularly those for children born with HIV/AIDS.