Addis Ababa (AFP) - Morocco's top diplomat said Tuesday that the United Nations is to lead efforts to end a dispute over a partially recognised state in Western Sahara that Rabat considers its territory. Speaking in Addis Ababa at his first African Union summit since Morocco returned to the bloc in January, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita said t ...

Rome (AFP) - Italy summoned Austria's ambassador Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border to stop migrants entering, as the number crossing the Mediterranean topped 100,000 this year. Fresh tensions have been rising over Europe's migrant crisis, with Austrian Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil saying Monday that his country ...

Ankara (AFP) - The United States is set to lift a ban on carrying large electronic devices, such as laptops, in the cabin of US-bound flights from Turkey's main international airport, Turkish Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan said on Tuesday. Arslan was quoted by state-run news agency Anadolu as saying the ban would be lifted on July 5 following a ...

Accra (AFP) - Rescuers were on Tuesday scrambling to locate survivors after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, trapping at least 17 miners underground. The abandoned mine in Prestea-Nsuta, which was more than 80 metres (260 feet) deep, caved in on Sunday afternoon as the miners were coming back to the surface. As of now, we are ...

Rome (AFP) - Italy summoned Austria's ambassador on Tuesday after Vienna threatened to send troops to the border over the migrant crisis, as the influx to Europe across the Mediterranean topped 100,000 for 2017. Defence Minister Hans Peter Doskozil had on Monday said Austria would close its border with Italy and send soldiers to guard it if ther ...

Rabat (AFP) - Moroccan security forces have begun withdrawing from the restive northern cities of Al-Hoceima and Imzouren, which have been rocked by weeks of social unrest, officials and residents said. A gradual pullback from both cities began on Monday at the request of King Mohammed VI, the governor of Al-Hoceima province, Fouad Chourak, to ...

Niamey (AFP) - Boko Haram jihadists have kidnapped 37 women and slit the throats of nine other people at a village in southeastern Niger, the regional governor said Tuesday. The attack happened on Sunday at the village of Ngalewa, near the border with Nigeria, the governor of Diffa region, Laouali Mahamane Dan Dano, told state TV. Boko Haram ...

Geneva (AFP) - More than 100,000 migrants have made the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Europe this year, the UN said Tuesday, amid mounting tensions among EU nations on how to tackle the crisis. Nearly 2,250 people have died in 2017 attempting the sea crossing from North Africa, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) added. ...

Ankara (AFP) - Turkish Airlines chief executive Bilal Eksi said he expected the ban on large electronic devices from the cabin of US-bound flights from certain countries to be lifted on July 5. We expect the electronic device ban applied to American flights to be lifted on Wednesday July 5, Eksi said on Twitter late Monday without giving furth ...

Nairobi (AFP) - Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza and his ruling party have moved the country toward violent dictatorship, rights groups said Tuesday in a report that slams the international community for inaction. A purge of ethnic Tutsis from the army, a crackdown on opposition and media and a bid to change the constitution to allow unli ...

Now Agence France-Presse (AFP), Italian news agency ANSA and Germany rsquo;s Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) have teamed up to create the European Data News Hub (EDNH) website offering reliable, multimedia content on hot button issues. The site is now online at www.ednh.news . Media can download text stories in five languages (English, Germ ...

Founded in the year 1999, the G20 is an international forum for governments and central banks from twenty (20) of the major economies around the world. Its aim is to study, review and promote high-level discussion on policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability. The G20 in 2017 held the twelfth (12) meeti ...

Washington D.C., 3 July 2017 ndash; Morocco received approval for a US $25 million loan from the Climate Investment Funds rsquo; Clean Technology Fund (CIF CTF) for a project to generate solar power through an innovative hybrid Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Photovoltaic (PV) solution. The Midelt Phase I Concentrated Solar Power Pro ...