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Historic UN ‘oceans treaty’ set to have major benefits for Africa’s struggling fishers

The new legally binding “high seas treaty” to protect marine life in international waters, which cover around half of the planet’s surface, but have long been essentially lawless, will positively affect struggling fishers in Africa and the Global South, according to experts involved in the decade-long negotiations. Conservationists welcomed an agreement over the weekend on […]

U.S. donates Morocco 2 intensive care field hospital systems

The United States government, through AFRICOM, donated two field hospital systems to Morocco’s Ministry of Health at a ceremony held Friday at the Ministry of Health’s logistics depot in Salé. The first system is a five-bed Intensive Care Unit valued at $960,000 and the second system is a mobile emergency room valued at $700,000. These […]

Former lawmaker abducted in Ouagadougou set free

Issouf Nikièma, former parliamentarian and member of a leading political party in Burkina Faso, kidnapped last Friday July 21 in capital Ouagadougou by an unknown armed man, has been set free, his party announced Tuesday July 25. Union pour le Progrès et le Changement (UPC), Nikiema’s party, announced Tuesday that the politician was released by […]