Mauritania and the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) signed Monday October 23 a new support strategy framework agreement under which the Saudi Arabia-based institution will provide further assistance to the North African country in the 2024-2026 period. Abdessalam ould Mohamed Saleh, Mauritania’s Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development and the IsDB President Muhammad Al Jasser signed […]
An unknown number of people, mainly girls and women, have been abducted by the Boko Haram insurgents on Feb 6 in the Nigerian north eastern province of Gamborou Ngala. The near 200 victims are internally displaced living in a camp, said the UN as it condemned the kidnapping and urged the immediate release of the […]
Members of the foreign affairs committee at the European Parliament turned down a proposal sponsored by advocates of separatism calling for treating southern Morocco, the Sahara, as a separate entity within the European neighborhood policy. The anti-Morocco proposal was put forward by the Greens in a series of failed proposals that bear prejudice to the […]
