Opponents of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied take part in a protest

Morocco accelerates desalination push in response to water stress

The recent $14 bln deal between Morocco’s water and electricity provider ONEE and a consortium comprising TAQA Morocco and Nareva, provides for setting up desalination plants across Morocco, in response to the country’s strategy to reduce reliance on dams and groundwater in a context of drought. Under this deal, Morocco will add 900 million cubic […]

South Africa: Andrew Mlangeni, last survivor of Rivonia trial, dies at 95

South Africa has just lost another great figure of the struggle against apartheid. Andrew Mlangeni passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. He had just celebrated his 95th birthday and for the past week had been admitted to a hospital in Pretoria for abdominal pains. It is a page in the history of […]

Tunisia: President sacks country’s Paris, Milan consuls, orders audits

Kais Saied has terminated the diplomatic jobs of Tunisia’s consuls in Paris and Milan and ordered a financial audit of the missions, his office announced on Sunday. The statement said Taher Arbaoui who had been running the country’s consulate in Paris will be replaced by Ridha Gharsalaoui. Adel Ben Abdallah on the other hand will […]