algerian journalist Moncef Aït Kaci

Botswana, De Beers ink new sales pact to continue diamond partnership

Botswana and mining company De Beers have announced, after years of negotiations, a new diamond sales deal that gives the South African country a bigger share of rough stones from their joint venture. Debswana, a joint venture between De Beers (a subsidiary of Anglo American, a UK-listed multinational mining company) and Botswana’s government, sells 75% […]

UK court allows appeal over govt’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda

British judges in the London’s High Court gave the green light on Monday, January 16, for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the UK government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. High Court has thus granted permission to the claimants — a group of asylum seekers — to […]

Gambia: US announces financial sanctions against Former First Lady Zineb Souma Yahya Jammeh

The US Treasury announced that financial sanctions have been applied to the former First Lady of The Gambia, Zineb Souma Yahya Jammeh, who has been living in exile in Equatorial Guinea since February 2017. The wife of the former Gambian dictator is suspected of controlling many assets in the United States. The US Treasury Department […]