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Libya: Enough reserves for 4years, Central Bank

Despite the situation in Libya, analysts and politicians have defended that the country’s economy will be able to resist to the violence and political crisis for almost 5years. Libya is heavily dependent on oil and most of the goods that it consumes are imported but there are believes that it has enough reserves to keep […]

Mozambique: illicit trade in ‘conflict timber’ smuggled to China funds insurgency, EIA warns

Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23 million a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to fund the country’s Islamic-State linked militants operating in its northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, according to a new report by Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), A multi-year investigation by the NGO, which campaigns against alleged environmental crime, […]

Amnesty International deplores Algeria’s and Tunisia’s failure to protect refugee rights

Amnesty International has reiterated its call for the release of an Algerian refugee who was kidnapped from Tunis and indicted in Algiers on bogus charges, in a blatant refoulement case. Slimane Bouhafs was a peaceful Kabyle independence activist of Christian faith. He obtained refugee status in Tunisia in 2020 to escape political and religious persecution […]