After two years at sea in which it has saved nearly 30,000 migrants, the Aquarius rescue ship is charting a course for a head-on collision with European governments. The bright orange boat is at the centre of a blazing international row after Italy and Malta refused to take in its 629 passengers picked up off Libya over the weekend, including pr ...
Equatorial Guinea's authoritarian president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, has called for national dialogue, a move that comes on the heels of a thwarted coup and a crackdown on the opposition. In a speech broadcast nationally on state television on Tuesday, the 76-year-old leader said dialogue and political interaction would take place in July. ...
A Ghana court on Tuesday ordered the suspension of the country's embattled football federation, paving the way for its dissolution following explosive corruption allegations. The High Court of Ghana granted the request of Ghana's attorney general Gloria Akuffo to suspend the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and its officials. GFA has undermi ...
The United Nations is planning to press on with a major drawdown of its joint peacekeeping mission with the African Union in Sudan's Darfur region, the UN peacekeeping chief said Monday. The Security Council agreed last year to trim the UNAMID mission - once among the biggest and costliest of all peace operations -- as the United States pressed ...
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