British secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox with Morocco’s Aziz Akhennouch in Rabat May 2019

Guinea-Bissau: president dissolves parliament after ‘coup attempt’, fresh elections planned

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dissolved the nation’s opposition-dominated parliament ahead of fresh elections and shortly after armed clashes in the capital Bissau that he describes as an “attempted coup d’état” and which plunged the small West African nation into yet another crisis. “The date of the next legislative elections will be set at […]

African farming: PDDAA Summit closes with adoption of Kampala Declaration

The Summit of the Detailed Program for the Development of African Agriculture (PDDAA) concluded on Saturday with the adoption of the Kampala Declaration. The Kampala Declaration focused on the development of a resilient and sustainable agri-food system in Africa, as well as the PDDAA’s ten-year strategy and action plan. In this context, participants decided to […]

Sudan: Over one million return to war-Scarred Khartoum amid fragile recovery, Says UN Migration Agency

More than one million people have returned to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in the past ten months despite ongoing insecurity and the collapse of essential services, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported. The returns, recorded between November 2024 and September 2025, involve families relocating from other parts of Sudan and from abroad. Ugochi Daniels, […]