China Eastern Airlines Group will launch, via its subsidiary Shanghai Airlines, an air route between Shanghai and Casablanca starting January 19, Chinese media report. The long-haul flight, to operate three times a week (Tuesday, Friday and Sunday), will link Shanghai-Pudong international Airport to Casablanca’s Mohammed V Airport, with a layover in Marseilles. Flights from Shanghai […]
West and Central Africa faces “disruptive and destabilising” new trends regarding drug trafficking, drug use and other crimes, warned Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “UNODC is registering new alarming trends on drug trafficking in West and Central Africa with disruptive and destabilizing effects on governance, security, […]
Investing in long-term gas projects in Africa as countries wrestle with powering their development with clean energy may not be a very good idea, United States’ special envoy on climate John Kerry has noted, as African countries denounce developed nations’ pledge to curb fossil fuel investment is unfair. “We are not saying no gas,” he […]
