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Algeria expels over 650 migrants to Northern Niger

More than 650 migrants from a dozen African countries have arrived in northern Niger after being expelled by Algeria, local authorities said Tuesday. Some 669 returnees from Algeria, including two Nigeriens, and 667 West and Central African nationals arrived on foot on September 17 in Assamaka, the Nigerien town closest to the Algerian border, after […]

Qatar World Cup exposes racism, hypocrisy of some Western circles

Some famous Western media outlets displayed abject racism when Qatar Emir draped a Gulf bisht over the shoulders of Argentina’s star Lionel Messi as he was about to lift the World Cup. In a live comment on this action, Estelle Denis and Stephane Guy of France’s BFM TV said they were shocked, unleashing a spate […]

Morocco’s BCP Bank Wants to Buy France’s BCPE in Africa

Morocco’s BCP bank started talks with French BCPE bank to buy major stakes in four of its African banks. BCP said in a statement it aims at acquiring BPCE’s controlling stakes in Cameroon, Madagascar, Congo and Tunisia. The French bank owns 68.5% of Banque Internationale du Cameroun pour l’Épargne et le Crédit (BICEC); 71% of […]