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Sudan: 200,000 forced to flee abroad while 700,000 more internally displaced

Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to neighboring countries and hundreds of thousands more have been displaced inside the country, trying to escape bloody fighting that has been ongoing for almost a month, the United Nations said on Friday (12 May). “As violence in Sudan continues for a fourth week, nearly 200,000 refugees and […]

Up to 124 billion dirhams invested in Sahara in 44 years- weekly

When Morocco retrieved the southern provinces from the yoke of Spanish colonialism, Laayoune was a smaller town lacking basic infrastructure and services like other cities in the Sahara. Now it has become a vibrant city topping the national average in terms of human development and well-being as the region enjoys the lowest poverty rates in […]

Gabon prepares for presidential elections in April

Gabon will hold its presidential elections on April 12, the first since the army took power in the country, the council of ministers announced. Gabon’s long-ruling President Ali Bongo was deposed in August, 2023, in a coup led by head of the presidential guard Brice Oligui Nguema, who took Gabon’s interim presidency. The coup was […]