Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, has in 2023 honored work of two women activists from Africa to provide safer abortion access in the continent and in the area of environmental protection in Kenya, as well as a humanitarian group that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The 2023 laureates “stand […]
After the resounding success of its 2015 session held in Dakhla, the Crans Montana Forum decided to hold the 2016 session in the same city that it describes as “the Pearl of the Southern Territories of Morocco” and “a key model for all countries of Africa.” The Forum on “Africa & South-South Cooperation, toward a […]
US Africa Command has warned against a terrorist plot being prepared by ISIS militants against Libya’s Oil Crescent, which is located 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, and includes the country’s largest oil reserves and export terminals. In a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat, AFRICOM spokeswoman Robyn Mack said: “at the moment, we believe that […]
