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Macron’s Africa tour confirms waning French influence

Right after announcing a new French foreign policy in Africa, Emmanuel Macron started an African tour that led him so far to Angola, Gabon and afterwards to DRC, where France was reminded that its patronizing attitude will lead it to lose more friends on the continent. In Kinshasa, President Felix Tshisekedi told Macron in front […]

UN-C24: Morocco’s Autonomy Plan for Sahara gains more global praise; Polisario gets more international rebuke

The autonomy plan put forward by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict continues to gain growing international support, being described as the best and pragmatic solution, while the armed Polisario militias continue to receive global condemnation for serious human rights violations and crimes committed in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. Addressing members […]

Spain: People on the dole to near 6 million in 2013

The number of people on the dole in Spain will near 6 million in 2013, i.e. more than a quarter of the workforce in the country. The gloomy unemployment figures were disclosed this week by the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) which underlined that the labor reform adopted by the government will not curb […]