Morocco’s spending on cooking gas and sugar subsidies rose sharply to nearly $700 million in the first half of 2017, compared to $481 million in 2016, the subsidy fund, Caisse de Compensation, said. During the first half of 2017, spending on cooking gas increased 70 percent year-on-year from $310 million to $525 million, while spending […]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is reviewing a confidential legal brief accusing the Russia-linked Wagner Group of committing war crimes in West Africa — not only through acts of extreme violence but by promoting them online. The brief, submitted by legal experts from UC Berkeley, contends that Wagner’s dissemination of graphic content — showing beheadings, […]
Forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) have announced that they have downed a United Arab Emirates-made drone used by East-based forces led by Khalifa Haftar who has launched an offensive to seize Tripoli. Tripoli’s southern outskirt has been since early April the theater of military confrontation where GNA forces have been […]
