Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is poised to commence a “world’s biggest” $20 billion mining project in the Republic of Guinea this year, following a 27-year wait marked by several legal and political setbacks, scandals and several false dawns. The $20 billion iron ore, rail, and port development in a remote corner of West Africa […]
The Moroccan government has extended for another month a countrywide confinement to stop the spread of the coronavirus, meaning people will have to stay home during the holy month of Ramadan. A joint statement of the health and the interior ministries said that the same protective and security measures imposed since March 20 will be […]
Eastern Libyan forces led by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar Tuesday extradited one of Egypt’s most wanted terrorists to Egyptian authorities, a move welcomed President Fattah al-Sisi. Live television footage on the national TV showed Hesham Ashmawi being escorted from a military aircraft by heavily armed GIS forces, local media Egyptian Streets reports. Ashmawi, 41, a […]
