Casablanca local authorities Monday cancelled what could have been Morocco’s first beer festival following calls for ban by religious movements. The one month event which was scheduled from October 8 to November 8 has been cancelled amid calls to preserve the identity of the country. Casablanca local authorities issued a press release on Monday indicating […]
In Mali, gunmen on motorbikes have killed more than 30 Tuareg civilians this week in northern Mali, Reuters reported. According to the report, the identity of the assailants was unknown, but disputes between the nomadic Tuareg and herder Fulani and displaced thousands over the past year. In the central-eastern town of Menaka, mayor NanoutKotia told […]
L’ Organisation Internationale de La Francophonie (OIF) on Monday warned Guinea’s electoral authorities over the accuracy and credibility of the electoral rolls as the country is preparing for polls. The OIF, the francophone organization equivalent of the Commonwealth, said the registers included nearly 2.49 million “problematic” names, including duplicated names, people who were too young […]
