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Germany returned Monday to Egypt 40 ancient Egyptian statuettes after they had been stolen and illegally smuggled out of the country, “Ahram Online” reports citing an official. Shaaban Abdel-Gawad, the supervisor-general of antiquities repatriation indicated to the media artefacts consists of 40 ushabti statuettes seized by German customs at Frankfurt Airport in 2020. According to […]
The U.S. have granted Togo $3 million to attend to around 60.000 people displaced in the north of the African country struggling to contain terrorism activities. USAID, Washington’s agency, provided the aid facility. The World Food Program (WFP) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) will be the agency’s operational partners on the ground. Per a press […]
Conflict-torn Sudan is edging ever closer to a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilize the entire region, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, condemning an air strike that killed at least two dozen civilians and widespread violence in Darfur. The United Nations chief made his assessment in a statement on Sunday after the air strike […]
Côte d’Ivoire has set up for the first time a Court to sue people involved in road accidents as authorities strive to cut down on road accidents. The court, referred to as “Tribunal de simple police” was established on Friday July 7 within Abidjan-Plateau Court of first instance. The Tribunal for its inauguration addressed two […]
Ulema have a duty to have a beneficial presence in people’s lives, by introducing them to the virtues of moderation and tolerance, and by neutralizing any negative sway ignorant extremists may have on innocent minds, stressed King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, on Saturday. In a message addressed Saturday to participants in a symposium […]
Pundits have been warning that terror groups in Africa have found a breeding ground for recruiting militants in the huge refugee camps scattered around the continent, including the Polisario-controlled camps in Tindouf in Algeria, with plans to stage attacks on Europe. “Islamists have a strong presence in Africa and recruit in huge refugee camps. And […]
Conflicts around the globe cause more deaths — over 238,000 people in 2022 only — than they have ever done this century, with Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) having all ranked among the world’s ten least peaceful countries since the index was launched in 2007. The number of […]
Khartoum was rocked on Monday by heavy artillery fire from paramilitaries and the army, besieged on several fronts and once again calling for civilian reinforcements in a war with no end in sight, after around three months. The noise of the fighting “started at around 4 a.m. and hasn’t stopped since”, reports one of the […]
Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized on Saturday (1 June) — the day to remember the 160th anniversary of abolition of slavery in the Netherlands — for his country’s role in slavery, acknowledged that racism is still a problem and asked for forgiveness in a historic speech. The Netherlands formally abolished slavery in its colonies in 1863, […]
The Algerian foreign ministry has interfered in France’s domestic affairs condemning the killing by French police of a teenager of Algerian origins and urging Paris to ensure safety of what it called Algerian nationals in their host country. The killing of Nahel, 17, shot dead by a policeman, triggered a wave of solidarity and a […]