A sustainable project in Nigeria’s southern Edo state is helping to get the country’s palm oil industry back on its feet decades after it was eclipsed by now leading producers Indonesia and Malaysia. Since the 1960s, when Nigeria was still the world’s top producer of palm oil, the substance that is extracted from oil palm […]
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Monday held Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies fully responsible for what he described as a “preventable human rights catastrophe” in El Fasher. Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, Türk said that after 18 months of siege, starvation and bombardment, the RSF […]
When Zitouna TV aired secret clauses of the October 7 defense agreement between Tunisia and Algeria, the revelations sounded less like routine military cooperation and more like a blueprint for tutelage and vassalization. The leaked text grants Algerian forces the right to conduct incursions of up to 50 kilometers inside Tunisian territory and to intervene […]
