Italy’s defense ministry and defense industry giant Leonardo-Finmeccanica signed this week an agreement to set up a military helicopters manufacturing plant near Setif in eastern Algeria. The factory will produce multipurpose light and medium Augusta West Helicopters that are used for transport, evacuation operations and surveillance, the Italian defense ministry said in a statement. The […]
At least 1.4 million people have been displaced and 500 killed in Nigeria in the worst flooding in a decade, which has affected nearly all of Nigeria’s states with 90,000 homes having been partially or completely destroyed, according to Nigerian officials. The Permanent Secretary of Nigeria’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, […]
The Mauritanian Upper House voted against an amendment package providing, inter alia, for changing the flag to include a red strip representing the blood split during resistance against the French colonial authorities. The Upper House members voted 33 against and 22 in favor of the amendment, which also included abolishing the Upper House and changing […]
