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Egypt’s al-Sisi in Paris amid human rights deterioration

Rights groups have alerted French President Emmanuel Macron over hosting Egyptian President Fattah al-Sisi who has rolled back human rights in the North African country since he seized power in 2013. President al-Sisi is paying as of this Tuesday (October 24) a two-day visit to France, with discussions to touch on bilateral cooperation, including arms […]

Second RAM plane carrying 157 Moroccans evacuated from Sudan lands in Casablanca

A second plane of Royal Air Maroc coming from Sudan landed this Wednesday afternoon at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, with 157 Moroccan nationals on board, evacuated from Sudan, following the deterioration of the security situation in this country. A first plane carrying 136 Moroccans among those stranded in Sudan had landed at Casablanca Airport […]

Mozambique: illicit trade in ‘conflict timber’ smuggled to China funds insurgency, EIA warns

Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23 million a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to fund the country’s Islamic-State linked militants operating in its northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, according to a new report by Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), A multi-year investigation by the NGO, which campaigns against alleged environmental crime, […]