Close to two months after giving a high-profile welcome to the stranded Aquarius migrant rescue boat, Spain once again opened its ports Thursday to a charity vessel carrying 87 men and boys saved off Libya after Italy refused access. The ship belonging to Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms arrived in the southern port of San Roque, just across from ...
Guinea's opposition cancelled a protest planned for Thursday, after reaching an agreement with the government in a bid to end six months of deadly protests. The West African country's opposition had led strikes and demonstrations against the official outcome of local elections in February, in which the ruling party, RPG, had won. The vote was ...
Dr. Isima Sobande was in medical school when she first heard of mothers who bleached the skin of their babies. She dismissed it as an urban myth. But it wasn't long before she saw it with her own eyes. At a health centre in Lagos, a mother brought in a two-month-old infant who was crying in pain. He had very large boils all over his body, ...
Twenty-two people are dead and thousands have been left homeless in Niger after torrential rains caused heavy flooding, authorities said. As of August 6, 49,845 people have been affected... and unfortunately we have recorded 22 deaths, Niger's minister for humanitarian action, Laouan Magadji, told public television late Wednesday. The flood ...
Abidjan, Aug 08 (AIP) - The President of the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI), Pascal Affi N 39;Guessan, said on Wednesday that the release of prisoners of Cote d 39; Ivoire 39;s post-election crisis is a first step of reconciling the country by its leader President Alassane Ouattara. In deciding to release political prisoners, the head of state ...
ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 08, (Xinhua) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has announced partnership with Chinese digital financial giant Ant Financial to promote financial inclusion in the continent. ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, who stressed the importance of digital financial inclusion platforms for Africa 39;s future ...
The UN envoy for Western Sahara is planning to convene talks before the end of the year between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front on ending their decades-old conflict, the Security Council president said Wednesday. Horst Koehler, a former German president and ex-director of the International Monetary Fund, briefed the council behin ...
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