Senegalese fisher folks protest against delay in implementation of fishing agreement with Mauritania

Senegalese fishermen from Saint Louis staged Wednesday October 18 a protest against authorities over the delay in the effectiveness of the fishing agreement inked with Mauritania that grants 400 fishing permits to Senegalese fisher folks to operate in Mauritania’s waters. Both countries signed a deal in 2018 for Mauritania to provide permits to 400 Senegalese […]

Russia–Africa Forum: Moscow refuses again Polisario’s participation, dealing another blow to Algerian Regime

Moscow has excluded the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists from participating in the first ministerial conference of the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum, dealing another humiliating blow to the ruling Algerian junta. Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita is representing the Kingdom in the two-day event which opened Saturday in the city of Sochi. The conference is attended by government […]

UN grants Malawi $5.5m to cope with damage caused by Freddy cyclone

The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), a humanitarian fund set up by the United Nations, has granted Malawi $5.5 million expected to be used to back hundreds of thousands of people affected by Freddy, a tropical cyclone that has hit the country in the past days. The South of the African country has been battered […]