The Malian city of Timbuktu and the Tomb of Askia, threatened by the armed conflict in the region, were placed on the UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, which made the decision on Thursday in a bid to raise cooperation and support for the threatened sites, asked Mali’s neighbors [...]
Shortly after he was appointed last Monday by the French Foreign Minister as his special representative for the Sahel, diplomat Jean Felix-Paganon met president Dioncounda Traoré of Mali, who was in Paris for medical treatment following his physical aggression by demonstrators last May. The French diplomat afterwards flew to the region for consultations with local [...]
Kenya has awarded the French oil company Total a new oil exploration permit to cover an area of over 10,000 square kilometers off the Lamu Archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of the country. The production sharing contract on Block L22 was signed with Kenyan authorities on Wednesday. Total has [...]
The Dubai-based Emirates airlines will increase the number of its flights to Zambia and Zimbabwe as of next October. The carrier which currently operates Dubai-Harare-Lusaka flights five days a week will introduce daily flights to meet the rising demand on the route, the air company said. The cargo capacity will also be increased by 40 [...]
Côte d’Ivoire will benefit from more than $4 Billion in Debt Relief, out of which $3.1 billion under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, representing a 24 percent reduction of its external debt, plus a further $1.3 billion dollars under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). The announcement was made by the International Monetary [...]
The main terrorist groups operating in Africa and mainly in the Sahel region are coordinating efforts and helping each other through arms and funds sharing, a US official has warned. Speaking at a news conference in Washington recently, the head of the US Africa Command, General Carter Ham, said these groups, namely Al-Qaeda in the [...]
Attacks on diplomats and foreign institutions are becoming regular and they risk gaining momentum if the issue remains unaddressed by the Libyan government. After the much disputed extradition of the former Prime Minister of the Ghadafi regime and with reports emerging that he has been hospitalised only a day after his arrival because of the [...]
Egypt’s stock market indices have made record gains in 9 years following the victory of Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Egyptian presidential elections. According to state TV, benchmark stock index, EGX30, on Monday closed with a record gain of 7.6 percent to 4482.48 points, its largest single-day gain in nine years, as [...]
Eleven countries of the Great Lakes region have set up an intelligence fusion center as a means to upgrade their intelligence sharing Cooperation and coordinate their efforts against the forces and groups threatening the region stability. The center, headquartered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was opened under the auspices of the International Conference [...]
The international community and several world and regional financial institutions have pledged, during the recently held Rio+20 earth summit, substantial financial contributions to upgrade the energy sector in Africa. The African Development Bank (AfDB) thus announced, during an event promoting the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) held on the fringes of the Rio+20 summit, that [...]
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