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Morocco requests emergency Arab League meeting on Gaza Strip

Morocco has, upon King Mohammed VI’s instructions, requested an emergency meeting of the Arab League’s ministerial council to discuss the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza strip. Morocco, which currently chairs the council, said the meeting will look into the outbreak of military actions against civilians and will seek the means to halt this […]

DRC president vows ‘vigorous’ military response to M23 advance as risk of regional war grows

The Congolese president has vowed to mount a “vigorous, coordinated response” by the army against Rwanda-based M23 rebels who have made a major advance in the mineral-east of the country in recent weeks, taking control of the key city of Goma. In his first public remarks on Wednesday (29 January) since the M23 fighters seized […]

Somalia officially joins East African Community

Somalia has finished the process of becoming a fully-fledged member of the East African Community (EAC) after it has ratified the accession treaty to an economic bloc that has some of Africa’s rapidly growing economies. Somalia joined Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and South Sudan, as part of the exclusive […]