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Outrage Grows in Morocco after Sexual Assault on a Girl in Casablanca Bus

Hundreds of furious women staged mass sit-ins in Casablanca and Rabat in protest against the shocking sexual assault on a girl in a public bus in Casablanca. The distressing incident was documented in a video that went viral on Morocco’s social media reigniting a bitter debate about violence against women, especially after the recurrence of […]

Egypt: Pope Francis maintains visit despite blast massacre

The Head of the Roman Catholic will still visit Cairo this month as planned despite twin bombs which ripped two Copt Churches, killing 44 people. Mgr Angelo Becciu, third most important of leader of the Catholic Church told Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Monday that the Sunday massacre will not deter the Holy Father […]

West, Central Africa in internet outage after undersea cable failure

Millions of internet users in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso were frustrated after an outage that was blamed on undersea cables failures. The African subsea cable operator Seacom confirmed that services on its west African cable system were down and that customers who relied on that cable were being redirected to the […]