Morocco announced the launch of an aid programme on Thursday to support and rehouse the residents of about 50,000 buildings damaged in last week’s devastating earthquake. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake — Morocco’s strongest ever — has killed nearly 3,000 pople and injured more than 5,600 since it hit last Friday in Al-Haouz province, south of […]
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna in Cairo on Thursday. During their meeting, the two ministers discussed bilateral relations between Egypt and France, as well as the latest developments in the region, including the Palestinian issue. In a joint news conference, Shoukry extended his condolences to the people of […]
Ghana has been chosen by the United States for the establishment of a Small Modular Nuclear Reactor (SMR) regional training hub and centre of excellence for the sub-Saharan Africa region. The country was selected due to its strong cooperation, leadership and consistency in training nuclear engineers. The new US commitment is to better position the […]
The United States plans to withhold $85 million in military aid to Egypt because of Cairo’s failure to meet U.S. conditions on freeing political prisoners and other issues, according to a congressional notification obtained by Reuters and a U.S. senator. Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, urged the Biden administration to withhold $235 million more, and […]
Pope Francis used his weekly audience to pray for the victims of the flooding in Libya and for the people of Morocco hit by a deadly earthquake. He made a heartfelt appeal on Wednesday, expressing his hope that God would grant the two countries and its people “strength to recover after this terrible ‘ambush’ they […]
The U.S. military has resumed counterterrorism missions in Niger, flying drones and other aircraft out of air bases in the country more than a month after a coup halted those activities, the head of U.S. Air Forces for Europe and Africa said Wednesday. Since the July coup, the 1,100 U.S. forces deployed in the country […]
The United Nations’ top envoy in Sudan is stepping down, four months after being told by the government to leave. In parting remarks, he criticized Sudan’s military and the rebel Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. “This conflict is leaving a tragic legacy of human rights abuses,” Volker Perthes told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday. […]
The head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell admitted on Tuesday that despite millions of euros spent in the Sahel, Europeans had failed to strengthen democracy in this region, the victim of a series of military coups. , the last of which is in Niger. Over the past ten years, the European Union has spent 600 […]
After recent deadly attacks in northern Mali, some people in Bamako say the government should consider restarting or increasing dialogue with armed groups. There’s been a resurgence of deadly violence in Mali’s north in recent weeks inolving attacks by Islamist militants on civilians and security forces. “…. We’re all Malians, so it would be better […]
The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, has launched a plan to assist at least 10 million Sudanese farmers, herders and fishermen across 17 states. The 12-month program aims to address the threat of food insecurity in the country, which has been exacerbated by a five-month-old armed conflict. The FAO will add to recent […]
