A Moroccan Royal Navy combat unit intercepted an inflatable boat northwest of the town of Tan-Tan, carrying 52 would-be irregular migrants, including 51 Sub-Saharans and 1 Bangladeshi, who were planning to head for the Canary Islands. In a press release the General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces said the rescued people were given first aid on board before being taken to the port of Tan-Tan and handed over to the Royal Gendarmerie for the usual administrative procedures.
Samih Sawiris, the Egyptian billionaire and CEO of Orascom, a Cairo-based infrastructure and construction giant, is pursuing a $400 million
Egypt’s Foreign Minister has criticized Israel’s seizure of Syrian territory on the Israeli border after the fall of
This last year was one of the most tumultuous for the Sahel region; in January the newly composed Alliance of
Doctors Without Borders, known also as MSF, has warned of a ‘rapidly escalating’ outbreak of cholera; a total of 737
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