abducted Canadian Edith Blais & Italian Luca Tacchetto freed

Sahara: Kingdom of Eswatini, Zambia Open Consulates in Laayoune

The Kingdom of Eswatini opened on Tuesday a Consulate General in the Southern Moroccan city of Laayoune. It is the 7th African diplomatic mission installed in the capital of the Moroccan Sahara in less than a year. The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Eswatini and Moroccan Foreign Ministers, Thulisile Dladla and Nasser […]

Displacement in sub-Saharan Africa driven by conflict, violence, climate shocks — IOM report

Conflict and violence remained the main drivers of record internal displacement and movements of people in sub-Saharan Africa in 2022, exacerbated by increasing climate shocks and hazards, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The report, launched recently by the IOM and the African Union Commission (AUC), highlights that migration […]

Libya: Serraj warns against export of Gulf crisis to Libya

Head of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) Monday expressed fears that Libya could become a terrain of proxy war between Qatar and its neighbors, locked up in close to a two-year old diplomatic crisis. Fayez Serraj made the warning in an interview with Bloomberg at a time the military campaign against Tripoli launched […]