The country left the Union in 1984 after a row over the status of Western Sahara. Morocco’s readmission brings hope of peace-building over the territory. Morocco has been readmitted to the African Union more than three decades after it left when the continental body recognised the independence of the disputed territory of Western Sahara. Hopes…
Morocco has formally announced its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving the organisation. In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, the Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the time had come for his country to retake its place within its institutional family. Morocco left the AU in 1984, after the…
Ethiopia and Eritrea have exchanged accusations over who started Sunday’s fighting at their disputed border. Ethiopia’s Information Minister Getachew Reda described the clashes in the Tsorona area as “an Eritrean initiative”. Earlier, the Eritrean government said that Ethiopia had “unleashed” the attack. A peace deal in 2000 ended the countries’ two-year war border war but…
Egypt has become embroiled in a dispute with African diplomats after they accused an Egyptian official of referring to “dogs and slaves” in remarks about sub-Saharan Africa at a United Nations conference in Nairobi. The diplomats sent a formal complaint to Kenya’s foreign ministry after the alleged remark at the U.N. Environmental Assembly last week,…
Addis Ababa — The rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition (SPLM/A In Opposition) have accused the South Sudanese army of violating the cessation of hostilities agreement, less than 24 hours after its signing. South Sudan’s leader of the government’s delegation Nhial Deng Nhial (L) exchanges a signed ceasefire agreement with the head of the…
Oil storage facilities at Bentiu, Unity State.. The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) announced today that as it continues to gain access to besieged areas, the number of people killed in the current round of fighting in the world’s youngest country “must be much higher” than the 1,000 figure given earlier in the…
The Libyan Deputy Industry Minister Hassan al-Drouhi is reported to have been shot dead on a visit to his home town of Sirte. The town has become a bastion of a group associated with al Qaeda. Deputy Minister al-Droui was reported to have been shot dead during a visit to Sirte, east of Tripoli, security…
An irrigation project in Niger. Yaounde — Bad roads, poor storage and weather destroy a fourth of food crops grown on a continent plagued by food insecurity A new day has just started and I am standing at one of the largest farm markets north of the Cameroon capital Yaounde. Trucks that have journeyed all night…
Rabat — For petrol, the price is up 0.59 dirhams per litre, for diesel it is up 0.69 dirhams per litre, and 662.88 dirhams per tonne for industrial oil. As part of reforms to the Subsidisation Fund, the government adopted a partial index-linking system for the prices of liquid petroleum products. Fuel prices will be…
(Reuters) – Libya’s prime minister on Tuesday appealed to the outside world to help restore security, as it combats political chaos and tries to restart oil exports crippled by protesters at a cost of $130 million a day in lost income. Ali Zeidan met with his British counterpart David Cameron, who two years ago was…
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