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Coronavirus: EU grants €75m aid to Algeria’s health sector

The European Union Wednesday said it provided Algeria with €75 million to support the North African country in its struggle to tackle the growing number of patients of novel coronavirus disease, TSA reports. Oliver Varhelyi, the European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, said he expressed in a phone call with the Algerian […]

ECOWAS eyes $2.6bn for standby force to combat terrorism across West Africa

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is seeking $2.61 billion annually to launch a 5,000-strong regional Standby Force aimed at combating terrorism, political instability, and transnational crime across the region. At a high-level meeting in Abuja, ECOWAS Ministers of Defense and Finance convened to finalize funding strategies for the ambitious counterterrorism initiative. A […]

Morocco Sends Two Fire-fighting Planes to Battle Italy’s Wildfires

FARThe Moroccan armed forces (FAR) sent two Canadair planes to Italy to extinguish the fire that ravaged so far more than 2000 hectares of forests. Italy becomes the third country that receives Moroccan aid after Spain and Portugal, which also received Moroccan Canadair flights. Southern Italy, including Sicily, has been plagued by wildfires this summer […]