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AU Rebukes Mauritania over Persistent Slavery

The African Union rebuked Mauritania for falling short of fully eliminating slavery after the country handed out lenient sentences to a slave owner. Mauritania should “give due regard to the issue of slavery and make the elimination… one of its priorities,” the pan-African body said in a statement on its website. The statement was published […]

New Coronavirus Variant: Morocco tightens control at its airports

Moroccan authorities have tightened control for inbound travellers at the airports of Marrakech-Menara and Essaouira-Mogador after several European countries have reported cases of the more contagious variant of Covid-19 which was first identified in UK. Besides the required covid-19 negative test, temperature screening, face-mask wearing and the respect of the distancing rules, the passengers may […]

Libya: LNA confirms full control of Sharara oilfield

East-based Libyan National Army (LNA) opposed to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) headquartered in Tripoli, has confirmed its full control of the Sharara oilfield, the country’s largest. Spokesman of the LNA Monday on Twitter said the Sharara oilfield in the southern Libyan desert, which produces a third of Libya’s 1 million barrel per […]