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A group of 700 Muslim Imams and preachers in Burkina Faso on Monday (28 August) denounced “religious and ethnic intolerance,“ in response to calls for the killing of members of the Fulani community in the country, which is plagued by jihadist violence. “We, Burkinabe, are playing a pernicious self-destructive role (…) by spreading messages inciting […]
Togo and South Africa are mulling several cooperation in areas of security at the time the West African country is reeling against terrorism in the northern region at the border with Burkina Faso. The Togolese Defense Minister Gnakade E. Marguerite held talks last week in Lome with Robina P. Marks, the South African ambassador to […]
Côte d’Ivoire is mulling plans to bring to 30 per cent the national production of medicine by 2025, up from current 6 per cent, Health Minister Pierre N’Gou Dimba said last Sunday. “In the roadmap that the President of the Republic gave me as Minister of Health, it is to increase from 6% to 30% […]
The flooding that hit the West African country on August 28 killed at least 75 people, authorities said Sunday, News.Aniamey reports. The Civil Protection Directorate, (DGPC), indicated Monday that 54 people of victims were killed by slumps while the 21 others were drawn. The Maradi region recorded the highest toll with 30 dead while Zinder […]
Queues have become a new reality in Tunisia which faces a shortage of fuel, sugar, rice, cooking oil, butter, semolina, bottled water and even coffee, local media reported. The shortage of fuel and foodstuff is the utmost reflection of the disarray the Tunisian economy faces as public debt widens to unsustainable levels and talks for […]
Several experts wonder whether Moroccan banks and businesses operating in Tunisia will leave or halt operations in response to President Kais Saied’s premeditated, hostile and unjustified provocative action against Morocco. It is inconceivable that Moroccan financial and services companies, which employ thousands of people in Tunisia, will continue making business as usual amid a serious […]
An international drug trafficking operation has been foiled by the Casablanca judicial police Sunday evening and 3 tons and 168 kilograms of Chira have been seized. The intervention was carried out in close coordination with the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST). During a security operation conducted in the suburbs of Casablanca, an individual involved […]
Policemen in Tangier on Sunday arrested an ISIS-affiliated individual for his involvement in an attempted voluntary manslaughter, as part of a terrorist project to seriously undermine public order. The 36-year-old suspect attempted to murder an individual under the pretext that the victim did not respect the precepts of Islam, revealed a statement released by National […]
An attack on a convoy belonging to a mining company in Burkina Faso, Boungou mining field, in the East of the West African country, has left six people dead, the army has reported. The army, in a statement said, unidentified armed men attacked a convoy of five cars of the mining company, in early hours […]
Thomas Boni Yayi, former Beninese President who also doubles as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediator in the Guinean political crisis, concluded Saturday his second mission in the West African country without scoring any point, Turkish news agency Anadolu reports. Guinea has been ruled since September last year by a transition led […]