SADC

Funding shortfall forces UN agency to halt food aid for 650,000 women and children in Ethiopia

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday (22 April) it will suspend life-saving nutrition aid to 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia starting in May due to a severe funding shortfall. The move comes amid warnings that 3.6 million of the most vulnerable people in the country could lose access to food […]

Mauritania reinforces military presence on its northern borders

Mauritania whose economy has been hit by Polisario’s banditry is set to reinforce its military presence in its northern borders in a move that signals Nouakchott’s determination to avert the Polisario’s incursions into its territories. The Algeria-backed Polisario separatists have blocked a critical border passage linking Morocco to Mauritania for three weeks. The passage which […]

Germany joins its voice to countries backing Morocco’s autonomy plan

German Ambassador to Rabat has described the autonomy initiative put forth by Morocco to settle the Sahara issue as the most realistic solution and separatists claims of the Polisario are “unfeasible”. “It is difficult to find a more realistic solution” than the autonomy initiative to the Sahara conflict which has long lasted, the German Ambassador […]