Orlà ans (France) (AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled plans to set up migrant registration centres in Libya to help stem an influx that has sparked a crisis in Europe, although his aides said the scheme could not be implemented there immediately for security reasons. A presidency official said the plan -- for which Macr ...
Tunis (AFP) - Human Rights Watch on Thursday hailed a new law to fight domestic violence in Tunisia as a landmark step towards protecting women's rights but called for funding to fully implement it. The law, passed Wednesday and expected to enter into force next year, provides for help to victims of domestic violence and removes a controversia ...
Bamako (AFP) - A group of former separatist rebels in Mali killed dozens of members of a pro-government armed group before a UN helicopter monitoring the fighting crashed in the country's north, sources told AFP Thursday. The UN has confirmed two German crew members belonging to its MINUSMA peacekeeping mission were killed while observing the ...
Washington (AFP) - Oil field services giant Halliburton will pay nearly $30 million to resolve allegations of bribery in Angola, US regulators announced Thursday. Former Halliburton vice president Jeannot Lorenz also agreed to pay a $75,000 fine for falsifying the company's books and circumventing internal controls, the Securities and Exchange C ...
Abidjan, C ocirc;te d rsquo;Ivoire, 27 July 2017- The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, will visit Ghana from 1-4 August 2017 as part of efforts to strengthen cooperation. The President rsquo;s visit to Ghana will provide an opportunity to engage with the President of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, key cabinet m ...
London (AFP) - British miner Anglo American has set aside $101 million (87 million euros) to cover potential damages for former South African staff who contracted the fatal lung disease silicosis at work, it said Thursday. The news came after Johannesburg's High Court ruled in May to allow former and current mine workers, employed by South Afric ...
Rabat (AFP) - Moroccan police have arrested a British dealer in virtual currency Bitcoin wanted on fraud charges in the United States, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Thursday. Police said only that a 49-year-old Briton had been detained in the northern city of Tangiers on Wednesday in response to a notice issued by Interpol on J ...
Berlin (AFP) - The biggest grossing German movie last year was a fizzy feel-good summer comedy about the country's refugee influx, Welcome to the Hartmanns . Just a year on, German screens are darkening with Club Europa , a sobering take on the challenges and dilemmas in the newcomers' integration that mirrors a growing national sense of ambiv ...
Dakar (AFP) - Dawn has barely broken as three of Senegal's estimated 50,000 child beggars dart through the capital's streets, hoping for a bag of sugar or a few coins to hand over to their teachers. Senegal's talibes -- children as young as four sent to Islamic boarding schools by their parents, then forced to earn their keep by begging -- are ...
Bamako (AFP) - Two German UN peacekeepers were killed Wednesday when their helicopter crashed as they were monitoring clashes in northern Mali, German and UN officials said. UN diplomats confirmed that the attack helicopter and the crew had been supplied by Germany to MINUSMA, the UN mission in Mali. Sadly we now know that two Bundeswehr (Ge ...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisia's parliament on Wednesday passed a bill designed to end all violence against women , strengthening protection and help for victims in a move welcomed by rights groups. It's a very moving moment and we are proud in Tunisia to have been able to gather around a historical project, said women's minister Naziha Laabidi. Th ...
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