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
The United States on Tuesday condemned Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over an attack in al-Jazira state that reportedly killed over 120 people, urging an immediate end to the violence. “The United States condemns these attacks in the strongest terms and calls on the RSF to halt violence against civilians immediately,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stated. He also urged the RSF and Sudanese army to end their conflict, warning Washington would "continue to impose costs."
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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