The two camps — Assamaka in Niger and Dadaab in Kenya — are more than 5000 kilometers apart but both swell with migrants or refugees who have embarked on a long and difficult journey looking for safety from conflict or drought. Assamaka, the first village on the border with Niger, sees the arrival of hundreds […]
The United States and Morocco are to hold later this month a joint multi-lateral exercise dubbed “Exercise African Lion-13” that will involve more than 1,400 U.S. service members and approximately 900 members of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, announced the US Africa Command (Africom). The two countries’ servicemen will conduct military-to-military engagements in various exercises […]
Human Rights Watch urged Algerian authorities to cease criminal prosecutions against bloggers, journalists and media figures for peaceful speech, using articles in the penal code criminalizing “offending the president,” “insulting state officials” or “denigrating Islam.” The International Human Rights Watchdog called on Algeria to accept key recommendations included in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) concerning […]
