A peaceful protest in Nigeria’s Benue State turned chaotic on Sunday (15 June) as police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in the city of Makurdi who demanded justice after a massacre in Yelewata village left more than 100 people dead. Gunmen attacked the farming community late Friday (13 June), burning homes and killing civilians, […]
Morocco and the African Union (AU) inaugurated this Friday, December 18, the African Migration Observatory in Rabat. The inauguration ceremony was co-chaired by Morocco’s Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita, and the AU Commissioner for Social Affairs, Amira El Fadil. The setting up of the African Migration Observatory was proposed by King Mohammed VI, in his […]
Moody’s Investors Service cuts Egypt’s sovereign rating by one notch to B3 from B2, saying that it does not expect the country’s liquidity and external positions to rebound quickly. The change comes as the Arab country has continued to face a foreign currency shortage despite allowing the Egyptian pound to depreciate sharply in recent months. […]
