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CAR: Security Council renews but relaxes arms embargo

The UN Security Council unanimously decided Tuesday to extend its sanctions regime against the Central African Republic for one year, including an arms and ammunition embargo with some exemptions, while also renewing the mandate of its related Panel of Experts for 13 months. The Council decided that Member States should continue to prevent the supply, […]

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Sudan: UN-AU mission condemns recent spate of deadly attacks in Darfur

The joint UN-African Union Mission in Darfur, UNAMID, has deplored the recent spike in violent attacks perpetrated in the province, pointing out that the recurrence of such incidents at this moment of Sudan’s history can only aggravate division and discord amongst communities. UNAMID called on the Sudanese Government to arrest those responsible for the recent […]

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Mali: Prime Minister reaches out to the opposition

The day after the appointment of a six-member cabinet, the Malian Prime Minister Boubou Cissé gathered his team on Tuesday July 28. Among its priority missions, the settlement of the political crisis. After his meeting with the members of the newly formed restricted government, the Malian premier exposed before the media his team’s objective. “The […]

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Morocco, South Africa must pool efforts to meet African challenges, Ambassador Amrani

Morocco and South Africa must work together to meet Africa’s challenges, Morocco’s ambassador to Pretoria, Youssef Amrani, said. Amrani, who was the guest on Sunday of the “politiki” program of the South African “Galaxy TV” channel, expressed Morocco’s determination to build relations of cooperation and solidarity with South Africa. “The two countries must work together […]

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Côte d’Ivoire: Former FM Marcel Amon Tanoh to run for October presidential election

Former Foreign Minister, Marcel Amon Tanoh, announced his candidacy for the October presidential election in Côte d’Ivoire. The Former Foreign Minister has not yet specified the political movement under which he will enter the race. Marcel Amon Tanoh, who was formerly close to President Alassane Ouattara, declared himself a candidate for the October presidential election […]

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Political crisis in Mali: ECOWAS calls for an extraordinary summit

The mission of the five West African Heads of State led by the current President of ECOWAS, Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, ended on Thursday evening, without any breakthrough. Muhammadu Buhari, Mahamadou Issoufou, Alassane Ouattara, Nana Akufo-Addo and Macky Sall failed to get the Malian opposition to accept their plan to get the country out of […]

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Côte d’Ivoire: RHDP deputies call on Alassane Ouattara to run for a third term in office

A little over 100 days before the Ivorian presidential election, the question burns everyone’s lips: will Alassane Ouattara finally resolve to run? The death of his former Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who was the candidate of the ruling RHDP party, has upset plans. The RHDP therefore brings together its elected officials to find a […]

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South Africa: Andrew Mlangeni, last survivor of Rivonia trial, dies at 95

South Africa has just lost another great figure of the struggle against apartheid. Andrew Mlangeni passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. He had just celebrated his 95th birthday and for the past week had been admitted to a hospital in Pretoria for abdominal pains. It is a page in the history of […]

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Maroc Telecom’s customers increased to 68.4 Mln in 1st semester 2020

Maroc Telecom Group has said that its customers continue to grow (up 9.1 pc year-on-year), reaching 68.4 million during the first half of 2020. This increase is due partly to the consolidation of Tigo Chad into the Group’s since July 1, 2019. As of June 30, 2020, its mobile customers reached 19.6 million, up slightly […]

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Attorney General Dismisses Amnesty International Report as Fundamentally Flawed

The Federal Attorney General dismissed the Amnesty International report issued in May 2020 under the title “Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security Forces in Amhara and Oromia” as fundamentally flawed. In a statement it sent to ENA today, the Attorney General said it had formed a committee drawn from the attorney bureaus […]