Mauritania
AfDB grants $30 million facility to Mauritania’s GBM
The African Development Bank Group has approved a $30 million trade finance facility for the Générale de Banque de Mauritanie
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot urged European nations to limit visas for countries that reject deported migrants after an Algerian-born assailant, on a terrorism watch list and pending deportation, killedone person and wounded several others in Mulhouse. Despite France's attempts to deport him multiple times, Algeria did not cooperate, according to French authorities. Barrot suggested that the European Union might lower customs tariffs for countries that cooperate with deportations.
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Mauritania
AfDB grants $30 million facility to Mauritania’s GBM
The African Development Bank Group has approved a $30 million trade finance facility for the Générale de Banque de Mauritanie
Tunisia
Tunisian opposition party calls for judicial independence, return to constitutional life
In a statement released Wednesday, the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s largest opposition coalition, said that the recent “show trials”
Algeria
Algeria jails historian who questioned Amazigh culture
An Algerian court has sentenced historian Mohamed Amine Belghit to five years in prison for offending national symbols, his lawyer
Ethiopia
Ethiopia's PM says mega dam on the Nile 'now complete'
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that a multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has