International condemnation is growing against Morocco and Spain as more details emerge about the violent deaths of at least 37 migrants during an attempt last week to cross Morocco’s border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla. According to media reports, more than 2,000 people attempted to enter the enclave from the Moroccan city of Nador.
A European military task force that helped Mali’s government fight Islamic extremists has formally withdrawn from the West African country amid tensions with its ruling military junta.
The French military, which spearheaded the Takuba task force, announced Friday that it officially ended its work Thursday. The move was tied to France’s decision earlier this year to withdraw troops from Mali after nine years helping Malian forces fight violent extremists who had threatened to seize power.
Why the Giant of Africa Needs to Start Over
Nigeria has always seemed like an impossibility. From the moment of its independence in 1960, observers questioned the country’s viability as a multiethnic, multireligious state. How could a country divided among two major religions and hundreds of different ethnic groups possibly stay together? When the devastating Nigerian civil war broke out in 1967, that skepticism appeared warranted. Perhaps, many concluded, Nigeria wasn’t meant to be.
Une équipe du conseil régional de Kayes a rencontré hier (04/07/2022) les associations de migrants à la Gare de Lyon.
Il s’agit notamment de l’Association des communes du Diombougou et Séro Diamanou et l’Association des femmes des communes du Diombougou en France.
Ils ont échangé notamment sur les projets d’aménagement de Holonkharé, l’adduction d’eau de Troun et les initiatives économiques soutenues par les femmes de la diaspora.
Selon l’Association pour la Taxation des Transactions en Aide aux Citoyens au Maroc (ATTAC Maroc), les prémisses du drame du vendredi 24 juin 2022 ont été annoncées depuis plusieurs semaines. Elle exige la fin des politiques criminelles financées par l’Union européenne et ses nombreux complices, les Etats, certaines organisations internationales et plusieurs organisations de la société civile.
The deaths of at least 23 African men at the Melilla-Morocco border on June 24, 2022 requires an independent, impartial investigation capable of determining what occurred and who bears responsibility for such loss of life, Human Rights Watch said.
18 clandestins africains sont morts vendredi, lorsque près de 2000 migrants ont tenté de pénétrer par la force dans l’enclave espagnole. Analyse des multiples implications d’un phénomène hors contrôle.
Respectivement peuplées de 84 000 et 87 000 personnes pour une superficie n’excédant jamais les 20 kilomètres carrés, les villes autonomes espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla sont des plaques tournantes de l’immigration au niveau méditerranéen. Faisant partie, avec plusieurs îlots et archipels, des « places de souveraineté » de notre voisin ibérique, elles constituent la seule frontière terrestre entre Europe et Afrique, au niveau du Maroc.
The border separating the Spanish territory of Melilla and Morocco witnessed a state of chaos on Friday, resulting in the deaths of five migrants after more than 2,000 migrants attempted to storm the border, reported Associated Press.
INTRODUCTION
This paper is partly driven by a recent case of hate speech uttered by an Oromo student at Harvard University (1). In this speech, the student encouraged the Oromo youth to ’eat up the Amhara flesh and drink their blood’ and then implied that such actions are energizing and, indeed, can even make you smarter. (2)
Far from his home in the Republic of Congo, Harvest-Spring Kibonge represents a cookie-cutter immigrant success story. In Senegal, he got an education and then started a business running a modest open-air smoothie shop on one of the capital’s lively beaches.