At least 15 people were killed and thousands displaced as the M23 rebel group on Wednesday (6 March) seized a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from government forces amid escalating violence in the country’s conflict-hit region. As the tutsi-led ‘March 23 Movement’ (M23) rebels took over the town of Nyanzale in eastern […]
As state coffers continue to be drained, Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahya said the state can no longer sustain the funding of primary schools. “The state of finances in our country does not help us address all requests to improve school conditions in primary schools,” Ouyahya told MPs, adding that local elected members will have […]
Moroccans were the largest group acquiring the citizenship of an EU member state in 2016, said the EU statistics office, Eurostat. In total, 101,300 Moroccans received the citizenship of a EU country, of whom 89% acquired citizenship of Spain, Italy (34,8%) or France (17,5%). Albanians were ranked second with 67,500, of whom 97% acquired citizenship […]
