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IMF loans Burkina Faso $80.7m to address global food crisis impact

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has loaned Burkina Faso $80.7 million to help the West African country surf the impact of the global food crisis. “Food insecurity in Burkina Faso has increased significantly owing to deteriorating security conditions, which led to the displacement of about 2 million people; unfavorable climate events; supply-chain disruptions following the […]

Slovenia backs Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara

Slovenia has become the latest EU country to support Morocco’s autonomy plan as a political solution to the over-five decade Sahara conflict. Slovenia “appreciates” the autonomy plan as a proposal that would offer a lasting solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara, Slovenia’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Tanja Fajon, said following talks […]

Tunisia: Japan’s space agency engineers detained at Carthage airport for possessing satellite blueprint

Tunisian customs detained Tuesday for several hours a group of Japanese space engineers upon arrival at Carthage international airport in possession of a satellite blueprint mistakenly taken for a spying device, reports say. The engineers, according to Tunisian Space Association, were interrogated for two hours and they were only released following the intervention of the […]