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South Sudan fuel tax blocks vital UN trucks

South Sudan has held up UN fuel trucks over a tax dispute, leaving scores facing aid shortages in the country where three quarters of the population risks famine. The trucks were denied entry at a border passage with Uganda until the tax is paid, despite earlier assurances from the South Sudanese government that UN aid […]

Azerbaijan: Morocco calls for closer cooperation between Non-aligned Countries

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi Alami, pleaded Thursday in Baku for the consolidation of cooperation and multilateral partnership between member countries of the parliamentary network of the Non-Aligned Movement while insisting that NAM countries establish solidarity and non-interference in the internal affairs of member countries as a doctrine in their ties. Alami […]

West African states rally behind Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline

The Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic African Gas Pipeline has crossed a major political threshold after member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) formally signed an agreement endorsing the transcontinental energy project, transforming what began as a bilateral initiative into a flagship regional undertaking. The signing, which took place at the ECOWAS summit in […]