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Libya: Islamists abduct 4 Italian workers, official

The Italian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that four of its citizens still in Libya have been kidnapped in the western city of Mellitah on an industrial sites owned by the Italian oil company Eni. The four victims are according to the Ministry statement working for Bonatti Construction Company. They were abducted on Sunday evening […]

Uganda cuffs 20 suspected militiamen over horrific school massacre

Twenty people had been reported arrested by Ugandan police for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for last Friday’s (16 June) horrific attack on a school near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Uganda reels from its deadliest attack in more than a decade after the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a […]

Mauritania poised to be Africa’s growth champion thanks to extractive economy

Mauritania is expected to report the highest growth rate in Africa by 2025 at 14.5% as the west African country taps into newly found gas, phosphates, and uranium resources, the IMF said. In 2024, the IMF expects the Mauritanian economy to grow by 4.3% with the beginning of production in the Grand Tortue Ahmeyim (GTA) […]