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Namibia, first African country to export red meat to US market

Namibia has become the first African country to export red meat to the United States, following nearly two decades of negotiations. “We’re able to finally export meat to the lucrative and big US market,” Namibia’s minister of international relations, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, said. The state-owned meat firm Meatco sent a shipment of 25 tons of beef […]

Bleak picture of human rights in Africa as some govts, armed groups escalate abuses — HRW

The latest World Report 2025 of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns that governments across Africa continue to crack down and wrongly arrest political opponents, critics, activists and journalists. The annual HRW’s World Report, released this week, reviewed human rights records of more than 100 countries, including 25 in Africa. The conflicts in Sudan, Ethiopia, […]

Sahara: King Mohammed VI welcomes UN Security Council resolution as historic turning point

King Mohammed VI welcomed the UN Security Council resolution stating that Morocco’s autonomy should be the basis of talks to settle the Sahara conflict. Morocco has entered “a new chapter in the process of consolidating the Moroccanness of the Sahara,” following the adoption of a pivotal resolution by the United Nations Security Council, the King […]