Sub-Saharan migrants try to reach Manilla

Italy appreciates Morocco’s commitment to settlement of Libyan crisis

Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio has expressed his country’s appreciation for Morocco’s contribution to regional and international efforts seeking to find a peaceful settlement to the crisis in Libya. Di Maio welcomed Morocco’s role during a phone call with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita on Saturday, August 1. The two officials’ talks […]

Four Benin political parties bag state funding worth $2.5m

Four political parties in Benin pocketed Monday close to $2.5 million in form of state funding for political movements having representatives in the legislature or local governments. Bloc Republicain (BR), Union Progessiste Le Renouveau (UPR), Force Cauris pour le Benin Emergent (FCBE) and Les Democrates (LD) received the fund from the Chairman of National Autonomous […]

DRC: UN mission that ‘proved its limits in ‘permanent war’ is to withdraw peacekeepers

After more than a two-decade presence, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), MONUSCO is set to withdraw its 15,000 peacekeepers from the Central African nation, based on a deal signed by MONUSCO’s head and DRC foreign minister on Tuesday (22 November). The country’s Foreign Minister Christophe Lutundula said […]