Libya: Beida-based Premier stops Tripoli-Tobruk air traffic

Head of Beida-based government, which is challenging the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), has ordered suspension of all Tripoli-Tobruk flights after a UN plane carrying Libyan lawmakers was refused landing in Tobruk. Abdullah Thinni who runs Libya’s second administration, not recognized by the international community, has reportedly demanded that all flights from Tripoli to […]

Royal Initiative: Morocco chose to grant life to land-locked countries – Malian FM

Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop affirmed on Saturday in Marrakech that Mali is “strongly engaged” in King Mohammed VI’s international initiative to facilitate the access of Sahel countries to the Atlantic Ocean, pointing out that granting water means granting life, and Morocco has chosen to grant the sea to non-coastal countries. The remarks were made […]

‘Historical reversal’: World Bank warns of widening gap between poorest and wealthy nations

One-half of the world’s 75 poorest countries — more than half of whom are in Sub-Saharan Africa — are facing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time this century in a historical reversal of development, according to a new report released by the World Bank. The report unveiled this week […]