Uganda is grappling with a new Ebola outbreak, marking its sixth detection of the virus, which comes just as a mystery disease is causing growing concern in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A four-year-old child has become the second fatality linked to the Sudan Ebola strain following confirmation of the virus at Mulago […]
South African paper, The Conversation, highlighted that Morocco managed to outmatch Algeria and South Africa diplomatically and economically in Africa thanks to a reinvigorated African diplomacy that culminated with a triumphal return to the African Union. “Morocco has been on a massive diplomatic drive, using both its political and economic muscle. Since his coronation in […]
Mauritanian El-Ghassim Wane was appointed by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres as the new UN envoy for Mali. He will replace Chad’s Mahamat Saleh Annadif as head of MINUSMA, the UN largest peacekeeping force of nearly 14,500 troops in Mali. A lawyer by training, El-Ghassim Wane studied in Senegal and France before rising through […]
