The last stages of the Libyan peace talks resumed Thursday in the Moroccan city of Skhirat without the General National Congress which indicated that it would later join the talks. Pressed by the UNMIL Chief Bernardino Leon, Libyan political stakeholders resumed dialogue in Morocco in the bid to fine-tune the last points to lead to […]
Algeria’s president Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his foreign minister have tried to belittle autonomy plan for the Sahara territory, in a context of growing support for this Moroccan initiative. Tebboune called it a “myth” and insisted on holding a referendum for independence, an obsolete option that proved its unfeasibility and which was abandoned by the UN […]
Pope Francis on Wednesday (1 February) slammed “brutal atrocities, which bring shame upon all humanity” and denounced the “poison of greed” for mineral resources driving conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as he began a visit there a day earlier. The 86-year-old Francis is the first pontiff to visit Congo since John Paul II […]
