Spainish PM Pedro Sanchez

Africa- Soccer: Rabat & Casablanca Bidding to Host 2019/20 Interclub finals

Morocco is bidding to host the finals of CAF Champions League 2019/20 in Casablanca Mohammed V stadium and CAF Confederation Cup 2019/20 in Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah stadium. The two bids were submitted lately by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation to the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Cameroon’s Japoma Stadium (Douala) and Tunisia’s Rades Olympic […]

France’s Persistent Role in Africa: The Other ‘Indispensable Nation’?

While recently attending a conference in Benin, the crisis in Mali still loomed large. The conflict in Mali had threatened to unravel the entire security situation in the Sahel and Western African nations spent much of the last year bickering whether a military intervention to save Bamako from approaching Islamist militias was feasible. In the […]

Libya: water supply to Tripoli & surroundings restored after 2-day cut off

The water supply to the 2.5 million residents of Tripoli has been restored Tuesday, two days after they were cut off by gunmen, allowing the besieged capital to escape shortages that could have caused a humanitarian crisis. Unidentified armed men stormed Sunday a station of the Great Man-Made River Project, a pipeline network carrying water […]