Algerian authorities suspended consular cooperation with France in its consulates of Nice, Marseille, and Montpellier, amid a worsening diplomatic crisis that led the French interior minister to call for banning entry to the Algerian nomenklatura. The Algerian escalatory move came in a series of provocations including the refusal to admit Algerian nationals who have been […]
The UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), headquartered in Tripoli, has surrendered to Italian authorities a famous Italian arms smuggler wanted in the EU member state for facilitating violation of the UN arm embargo on the North African country. Franco Giorg was flown to Rome aboard a private jet, Libya Observer reports Tuesday. The dealer […]
US tech giant Meta has faced mounting legal troubles in East Africa, including in Ethiopia where its subsidiary Facebook has been accused of contributing to violence during the brutal two-year conflict in the country’s northern Tigray region, and in Kenya where Meta has reportedly faced several lawsuits by local Facebook content moderators. In Ethiopia, Many […]
