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Sahara: Algerian FM’s phone call with lavrov, desperate move to get Moscow support ahead of UNSC Vote

Algerian Foreign minister Ahmed Attaf spoke on the phone with Russian peer Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday in a desperate move to have Russia veto against the American draft resolution supporting Morocco’s Autonomy plan offered by the Kingdom for the Sahara under its sovereignty. However, Moscow is signaling a shift in its position in favor of […]

South Sudan seeks $13 billion-backed loan from UAE

South Sudan is nearing an agreement with a UAE company for an oil-backed loan worth $13 billion, the largest in Africa’s newest nation’s history. The news was reported by AP citing an unnamed UN source which said the deal is close to being signed. “Servicing this loan would likely tie up most of South Sudan’s […]

Ethiopia: Tigray protesters demand Eritrean troops’ withdrawal, return of displaced

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday (23 May) in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, demanding the withdrawal of foreign troops and soldiers and the return of individuals displaced during the two-year conflict Tigray residents demand that Ethiopia’s allies – Eritrean troops and militiamen from the neighboring Amhara region – who had stayed following the cease-fire last […]