The European Union (EU) has granted Egypt $40 million earn-marked for the improvement of food security in the North African country, Egypt’s International Cooperation Ministry said in a statement. The EU will provide the funds through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). Per the deal, the AICS will partner with the Egyptian Ministry of […]
The vote on the draft resolution on the Sahara has been delayed by the UN Security Council to allow the Polisairo separatist militias to withdraw from the Guerguarat buffer strip on the borders with Mauritania. A diplomat at the UN Security Council who requested not to be named said that the draft resolution included a […]
Equatorial Guinea has announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WTO) confirmed 13 February. Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of about 1.6 million. A health alert had been declared in Kie-Ntem […]
