Rome (AFP) - Some 1,500 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean this weekend, an unusually high number for winter when crossings tend to slow because of difficult sea conditions, the Italian coastguard said Sunday. The number of people pulled to safety in the past two days brought to 4,500 the total saved since Wednesday. The latest r ...
Tindouf (Algeria) (AFP) - The head of Western Sahara's Polisario Front has said all options are open in its independence struggle from Morocco, but called for talks after the kingdom rejoined the African Union. Morocco quit what was then the Organisation of African Unity in 1984 after the bloc admitted the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SAD ...
Rabat (AFP) - Morocco will never recognise Western Sahara's independence despite rejoining the African Union after a decades-long dispute over the territory, Deputy Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said in published remarks Sunday. Last Monday, the AU approved Morocco's re-entry into the bloc which it quit in 1984 in protest at the admission of ...
Cape Town (AFP) - Investors and mining firms gather Monday at Africa's biggest industry conference amid a newfound optimism that the uptick in commodity prices could shore up investment after years of downturn. The annual four-day Mining Indaba in Cape Town takes place as demand in China, one of the world's biggest consumers, begins to stabilise ...
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