The Moroccan government has approved a measure to extend stipend in aid to workers in the tourism industry who have been idled due to the restrictive measures taken by the government to contain Covid-19 outbreak. Morocco has closed its borders to all passenger traffic amid the surge of the new Omicron variant. The decision took […]
There was no breakthrough in the East China Sea island dispute between China and Japan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Foreign ministers Koichiro Gemba and Yang Jiechi were reported to have had a “severe” exchange. This is bad news for business in the region as the row with China […]
Mali’s army has reportedly recaptured the strategic northern town of Kidal, which has been a stronghold of Tuareg-dominated separatist rebel groups that has long posed a major sovereignty issue for the ruling junta. “Today our armed and security forces have seized Kidal,” Colonel Assimi Goita said in a statement on Tuesday (14 November). “The (Malian […]
