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French navy seizes $600M in cocaine as West Africa becomes trafficking hotspot

The French Navy has intercepted nearly 10 tonnes of cocaine aboard a stateless fishing vessel off the coast of West Africa, marking one of the year’s largest drug busts and highlighting the region’s growing role as a key transshipment route in the global cocaine trade. The 9.6-tonne haul — valued at roughly $600 million — […]

SSO: $24 million funding needed to preserve oases in North African countries

A regional conference on the promotion of oases in North Africa and Mauritania held in Tozeur, Tunisia, last week underlined that $24 million funding was needed to preserve the green areas in the region desert. Participants in the conference, recognizing oases as a historical, cultural, environmental, civilizational, national and international heritage that must be preserved, […]

Egypt: al-Sisi vows to hunt down twin bombings masterminds

Egyptian President al-Sisi Thursday pledged that Palm Sunday Church bombers will not go scot-free as he visited Head of Coptic Christians. The Egyptian leader paid a supportive visit to Pope Tawadros II days after Sunday bombings which left 45 people dead. Two bomb attacks decimated Palm services in two Coptic Churches in Alexandria and in […]