Travel is easing throughout Africa, with visa restrictions at their lowest level since 2016, as about 93% of countries across the continent have maintained or risen in the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI) this year, according to the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) annual AVOI Index. The AVOI, produced in collaboration with the African Union Commission, […]
The US State Department exposed the degradation of human rights of the military regime in Algiers which has deployed brutal tactics to silence dissent including pretrial detention, torture, cham terrorism charges and free speech muzzeling. The State Department’s annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released this March, starts by questioning the atmosphere of elections […]
A landmark underwater rail tunnel project connecting two continents has entered a crucial new phase as engineering feasibility studies commence, marking a historic step in Mediterranean infrastructure development. The ambitious infrastructure project, which will link Morocco and Spain through the Strait of Gibraltar, has selected a world-leading tunneling technology firm, Herrenknecht Iberica, to conduct the […]
