The World Bank has proposed several reform measures as Lebanon continues to struggle with currency depreciation, the COVID-19 pandemic and more.
The World Bank released a bleak report on Tuesday on Lebanon’s economy in light of the financial crisis, COVID-19 and the aftermath of the August Beirut explosion.
Three extremists were killed Tuesday in a clash with the Algerian army in the country’s northeast, the defense ministry said, adding that an operation was ongoing.
The army killed “two terrorists following a clash with a dangerous” armed group in Jijel province, the ministry said in an initial statement, later revising the toll to three.
Le Port autonome de Dakar est un univers gigantesque… engoncé en plein cœur de la capitale. S’il veut se développer, il doit se moderniser, mais aussi se « décentraliser ».
La Grèce se prépare à envoyer une unité de forces spéciales au Mali pour rejoindre les forces militaires françaises dans le cadre des opérations contre le terroriste.
La période de déploiement n’a pas été encore officiellement annoncée, mais l’information a été donnée par le ministre grec des Affaires étrangères; en marge d’une réunion, la semaine dernière, par visioconférence entre les ministres de la Défense de l’UE .
Plusieurs attaques terroristes, revendiquées par al-Qaïda au Maghreb islamique, ont visé simultanément la force française Barkhane ce lundi matin, dans le nord du Mali. Il s’agissait essentiellement de tirs de roquettes ou d’obus. Il y a très peu de dégâts matériels et aucune victime n’est à déplorer, mais ce qui frappe, c’est la coordination de ces attaques.
The cities of Kidal, Gao and Menaka in northern Mali were hit by simultaneous attacks on Monday against military camps housing international forces, according to residents and a United Nations official.
A local official says a suicide bombing at an ice cream shop in Somalia’s capital has killed at least seven people, and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group has claimed responsibility.
ABUJA, Nigeria—Journalists and citizens in the Central African Republic (CAR) have increasingly become targets for Russian mercenaries in the country, according to an investigation by The Daily Beast.
Eyewitnesses to Russian aggression in CAR say the violence has continued since the 2018 killings of three Russian journalists who were investigating the local activities of the Wagner Group, a mercenary outfit tied to a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. And coordinated pro-Russia social-media disinformation campaigns have popped up to defend the mercenaries and circulate lies about rival peacekeepers from Western nations.
The fugitive leader of Ethiopia’s defiant Tigray region on Monday called on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to “stop the madness” and withdraw troops from the region as he asserted that fighting continues “on every front” two days after Abiy declared victory.
For the first time since fleeing their country five years ago, Burundian refugees living in Rwanda are returning home. But while the government sees this as a significant step in uniting a nation torn apart by political violence, activists and aid workers are treating it with caution. Tens of thousands of Burundians remain fearful of returning to a country where human rights abuses are still rampant.