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Gabon, South Korea mull cooperation in forest, carbon credit management

Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba held talks Monday on the sidelines of the COP27 in Egypt, with Korea’s Special Envoy for Climate Hon Na Kyung-Won on the possibility of both countries cooperating in forest and carbon credit management, Gabo Review reports. The Gabon leader and Kyung-Won also addressed Korea’s various investment opportunities in infrastructure, among […]

Egypt: Publisher of controversial Israeli novel sentenced to five years in prison

A court in Egypt upheld a five-year prison sentence against the head of an Egyptian publishing company for distributing an Arabic version of “The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel”, a book the military rejected arguing that it disseminates military secrets. Khaled Lotfi, on trial in a military court since last year, was handed the sentence […]

Senegal: Complaint filed against minister who called riflemen “traitors”

On Thursday, December 26, the African Federation of Descendants of Senegalese Riflemen filed a formal complaint against Cheikh Oumar Diagne, Minister and Advisor to the Presidency of Senegal. The complaint comes after Diagne controversially described the Senegalese riflemen of Thiaroye as “traitors” during an interview on the local television channel ‘Fafa TV’ on December 21. […]