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Morocco Faces Systemic Climate Vulnerability, L’Economiste Reports

Morocco is confronting a systemic vulnerability to climate shocks that is reshaping its economic and social landscape, according to a report published by L’Economiste daily. The newspaper reports that once-rare drought cycles now follow one another at an unprecedented pace, driving a sharp decline in freshwater reserves and a critical reduction in dam reservoir levels, […]

Comoros row with France escalates after it rejected migrants from nearby French island

The Comoros government vowed not to accept illegal migrants expelled from the neighboring French island of Mayotte and urged France to step back from a planned operation that could see their forced return. In an escalating diplomatic spat, the Comoros government already asked France last Monday April 17 to abandon the planned Operation Wuambushu (“Take […]

Nigerians lose UK Supreme Court’s case over Shell oil spill

The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it was too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue two Shell subsidiaries over a 2011 spill off the coast of Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The legal case, launched by residents of Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, is one of a series of legal battles Shell has been […]