The economic monitoring committee, set up since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Morocco early March, is making every effort to resume economic activities and put economic recovery on the right track, after more than two months of confinement, which heavily impacted several sectors of the national economy. The committee members discussed at a […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has formally acknowledged the “repressive violence” carried out by French colonial forces in Cameroon during and after the country’s struggle for independence. The admission follows the release of a damning joint historical report by French and Cameroonian historians. In a letter sent to Cameroonian President Paul Biya, Macron recognized that France’s […]
Somali government forces and allied militias, backed by the United States and African Union (AU), have recaptured a strategic town that the al-Shabab armed group had controlled for six years. Pro-government forces entered the town of Adan Yabal in Hirshabelle, about 220km northeast of the capital Mogadishu, after the al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters withdrew without resisting, President […]
