Leaders of Rwanda and Benin have met over the weekend to discuss ways of containing a potential spillover from an Islamist militant insurgency that has been gaining ground in neighboring Burkina Faso. Along with Benin, three other West Africa coastal nations — Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo — have suffered attacks in border areas blamed […]
Former French President and 2017 presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has dismissed claims by French and Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine who underlined that the French politician received 50 million Euros from the former Libyan ruler for his 2007 presidential campaign. Takieddine, in a video-taped interview published by French investigative website Mediapart, repeated that he gave three […]
Morocco produced 4082 tons of legal cannabis in 2024, from some 300 kilograms last year, as the number of permits to farmers grows, the cannabis regulator ANRAC said. Moroccan local strain or the Beldia dominated production with 2,786 tons, while the rest of the cannabis originated from imported seeds. The Beldia strain ANRAC has a […]
