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Mauritania: El Ghassim Wane appointed as UN Secretary-General Assistant for Peacekeeping Operations

Mauritanian top African Union (AU) Officer in charge of peace keeping operation El Ghassim Wane was appointed last week as Ban Ki-moon’s assistant for UN Peace Keeping Operations, reports say. El Ghassim Wane’s appointment came into force last Thursday and he will replace the outgoing assistant Edmond Mulet of Guatemala, now appointed as Chef de […]

Nigeria: lawmakers denounce launch of ‘Nigeria Air’ by Buhari gov’t as “fraud”

Nigeria’s dreams for a domestic airline crash-land, as the lawmakers slammed the launch of the country’s new flag carrier Nigeria Air just days before the end of the administration, declaring it a “fraud”. Nigeria’s House of Representatives dubbed the purported 26 May launch of the Nigeria Air as “fraudulent,” while local media reported that major […]

EP’s Draft Resolution Highlights Development Efforts in Sahara

A draft resolution by the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA), drawn up in the context of the approval of the Morocco-EU farm agreement and the extension of tariff preferences to agricultural and fisheries products originating from the Sahara provinces, underlined the important development efforts being made in the Moroccan southern provinces and the […]