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 NGO SOS Mediterranee says it rescued 25 migrants off the Libyan coast Sunday, AFP reports. The group’s Ocean Viking vessel took the migrants aboard, where they are receiving care from the Red Cross and SOS Mediterranee teams. The group included five unaccompanied minors and two other children were under four. The rescue was prompted by a distress call via Alarm Phone, a hotline used by migrants attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing.
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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