FILE PHOTO: Sudan’s new Prime Minister in the transitional government Abdalla Hamdok, speaks during a Reuters interview in Khartoum

Morocco: Heads of major political parties visit Guerguarat

Heads of major Moroccan political parties visited on Friday the Southern border post of Guerguarat, near Mauritania, after the action carried out by the Moroccan army to secure and restore the normal traffic flow which was obstructed for three weeks by the Algeria-backed Polisario mercenaries. In a joint statement, chiefs of Justice and Development Party […]

China’s Maritime Silk Road projects come with environmental costs for Africa — study

While some of the ports, bridges and other coastal projects constructed as part of Beijing’s so-called Maritime Silk Road help developing economies increase their capacity for trade, there are environmental downsides to China’s coastal infrastructure, according to a new academic study that has just been published in the journal One Earth. The study, by researchers […]

Russia’s disinformation campaign in Africa making quickest victories in history of propaganda — report

Russia is making “tremendous” gains in its disinformation propaganda in Africa, according to a new report by Dan Whitman, fellow at the Philadelphia-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, who, in a recent interview, described Moscow’s disinformation campaign as the “most rapid propaganda successes in the history of propaganda.”   In his report recently published by the […]