First Independent Mena Newspaper
An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]
Diplomats, petitioners and experts from around the world continue to commend, at the United Nations, the realistic autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution to the Sahara issue, denouncing the destabilizing scheme of the Algeria-backed Polisario militias having links with terror groups, drug & arms smugglers operating in the Sahel. Addressing the UN […]
India has halted all production at Maiden Pharmaceuticals’ main factory near New Delhi after a WHO report that the company’s cough syrups exported to the Gambia may be linked to the deaths of dozens of children there. The recent incident which has claimed the lives of 69 children, according to WHO, has come as a […]
A new liquefied natural gas project near Senegal and Mauritania’s coastlines may only be 80% complete, but the prospect of a new energy supplier has already drawn visits from several European leaders, scrambling to secure alternative sources after Moscow has reduced natural gas flows to EU countries. While Africa’s natural gas reserves are vast and […]
At least 1.4 million people have been displaced and 500 killed in Nigeria in the worst flooding in a decade, which has affected nearly all of Nigeria’s states with 90,000 homes having been partially or completely destroyed, according to Nigerian officials. The Permanent Secretary of Nigeria’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, Nasir Sani-Gwarzo, […]
President Ali Bongo Ondimba of gabon reshuffled Wednesday his cabinet and appointed government spokesperson Alain Claude Bilie By Nze Deputy Premier, a position scrapped in 2016. Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, Gabon’s Premier, reportedly proposed Bilie By Nze for the position to President Bongo. The position has not been filled since 2016. Bruno Ben Moubamba, […]
African countries have been divided over the vote in the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (12 October) that in the end condemned Russia’s “illegal annexation” of Ukrainian territories after Moscow vetoed a similar text in the Security Council in late September. Twenty-six African countries voted in favor of, while nineteen others abstained in the […]
Col. Aissimi Goita, President of the Transition in Mali, appointed Wednesday the 15 members of the country’s independent election body known as Autorité Indépendante de Gestion des Elections (AIGE). The AIGE was created in September 2021 following national dialogue and talks based on the rebuilding and the establishment of a single body in charge of […]
Moroccan Royal Navy has joined allies and partners for the multinational maritime exercise, Grand African NEMO 2022, taking place in the Gulf of Guinea. The week-long exercise, which started Oct.11, is led by France. This year’s edition aims to enhance the maritime security to counter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, piracy, drug trafficking, pollution, […]
Morocco’s Royal Navy coastguards rescued this week 182 candidates to irregular migration, including women and children, mostly coming from sub-Saharan Africa. The rescue operations conducted between October 10 and 12 enabled to save the would-be illegal migrants, who attempted the perilous crossings aboard makeshift boats, kayaks, jet-skis, surfboards and even swimming. The rescued persons received […]