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Nigeriens, experts applaud junta’s repeal of EU-backed anti-migration law

The European Union is “very concerned about the consequences” of the latest decision by Niger’s military leaders to revoke an EU-backed law criminalizing transportation of migrants north from Agadez to Libya and Algeria for onward transition to Europe. Over the weekend, Niger’s junta government signed an order abrogating the controversial legislation, known as Law 2015-36, […]

UK barristers recognize right of Kabylia people to independence from Algeria

Leading UK barristers issued a legal opinion recognizing the right of the Kabylia people to self-determination, giving a push to the region’s independence quest. The nearly 10 million strong Kabyle people have protested against discrimination and economic marginalization by the central Algerian state. The region’s independence movement MAK has a government in exile struggling peacefully […]

Morocco hopes to build dams ahead of schedule in response to drought- official

With a filling rate that has been reduced to 28% in August, Morocco’s water ministry cut short the delivery time of 14 key dams under construction to eight months instead of 3 years, Abdelaziz Zerouali, director of research and planning at the ministry said. Morocco has currently 5 billion cubic meters of water stored in […]