Africa’s IT investments fail to meet demand
Though the sub-Saharan region has enjoyed GDP growth, as well as massive increases in foreign direct investment, over the past......
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Morocco: Call to Investigate Alleged Torture of Detained Sahrawis
[AI London]The Moroccan authorities must immediately launch a full, independent and impartial investigation into allegations that six Sahraw...
Morocco: Psoe Condemns Moroccan Human Rights Violations in Occupied Western Sahara
[SPS]Boujdour (refugee Camps) -The Director of International Relations at the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), José Antonio, condemned Frida...
Western Sahara: President Mohamed Abdelaziz Does Not Rule Out the Resort to Armed Struggle
[SPS]Chahid Al Hafed (refugee Camps) -The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has not...
Ghana: Mahama Commissions Ghana’s First Solar Power Plant
[Ghanaian Chronicle]The first-ever solar power plant in the Sub-Saharan mainland was on Thursday commissioned at Pungu, near Navrongo in the...
Big independence demo in West Sahara
Hundreds of pro-independence Sahrawi activists have marched in Laayoune, Western Sahara in the biggest such protest in recent decades....
Western Sahara: Africa’s Last Colony
[ThinkAfricaPress]After a twenty year impasse, it could take a 'Sahrawi Spring' for the Western Sahara to finally gain self-determination....
Northern Mali still unstable despite French intervention
Inhabitants of Timbuktu live in fear of attacks by bandits and suicide bombersThere is an eerie silence in Timbuktu. Apart from the swelteri...
Morocco: Saharawi Representative Kamal Fadel Gives Talk On Western Sahara At Sydney University
[SPS]Sydney -The POLISARIO Representative to Australia Mr. Kamal Fadel gave Friday a talk to the students at the Centre for Peace and Confli...
Morocco: Mandate of UN Mission in Western Sahara Extended for One More Year
[UN News]The Security Council today extended for another year the mandate of the United Nations mission tasked with monitoring the ceasefire...
Morocco: UN ‘Miss Opportunity’ to Allow Western Sahara Human Rights Monitoring
[AI London]The UN Security Council's failure to add human rights monitoring to the mandate of its Western Sahara peacekeeping force - despit...
UN extends peacekeeping force in Western Sahara
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to keep a U.N. peacekeeping force in Western Sahara for another year, but without a man...
‘No rights monitoring in Western Sahara’
Opposition from France and Morocco has forced the US to abandon a proposal to monitor human rights in the disputed territory of Western Saha...
StanChart acquires South African firm
Standard Chartered Bank has announced its acquisition of South African custody and trustee business of Absa Bank.This planned acquisition, t...
Insufficient Bandwidth responsible for Africa’s under-development.
The outgoing Head of Region, Ericsson sub-Saharan Africa, Mr. Lars Linden, has said lack of sufficient bandwidth penetration in Africa, is l...
Morocco cancels war games with US
Morocco has cancelled its annual military exercises with the US after the Obama administration backed having the UN monitor human rights in ...
US and Morocco in W Sahara spat
The US is redeploying forces that were due to take part in joint military exercises in Morocco amid a disagreement over Western Sahara....
Mali: UN Reaffirms Support For African Military Force After Deadly Terrorist Attack
[UN News]The United Nations today reaffirmed its determination to back the African-led International Support Mission in Mali (AFISMA) after ...
Letters: Western Sahara and human rights
Concerns over security in west and north Africa are finally drawing attention to Western Sahara (UN chief warns of conflict 'timebomb', 10 A...
Zuma to visit Algeria, Nigeria
President Jacob Zuma, who was in Kenya on Tuesday for the inauguration of President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, will next week undertake a diploma...
Morocco: Polisario Front – the UN Report Is ‘Balanced’ but ‘Shy’
[SPS]New York -The Polisario representative to the UN, Ahmed Bukhari, on Tuesday welcomed the new report of the Secretary-General of the Uni...
April Festivals and Events in Africa
April brings spring to North Africa and autumn to South Africa, with lots of warm rain falling in between. The Egyptians celebra...
UN Warns of Risk of Mali War Spillover in Western Sahara
The conflict in Mali threatens to spill over into the disputed territory of Western Sahara, with the possibility of infiltration by foreign ...
Morocco: France for a Solution to Western Sahara Issue On Basis of UN Resolutions, Says Hollande
[SPS]Rabat -French President Mr. François Hollande has announced from Rabat that his country supports a political and mutually agreed upon ...
Western Sahara: France Renews Support for Morocco’s Western Sahara Initiative
[Moroccan American Center for Policy]Rabat -A solution to the conflict in Western Sahara, where a UN peacekeeping force has been deployed fo...
MOROCCO: Hollande hails Morocco’s path to democracy
Morocco is taking “decisive steps” towards democracy, French President François Hollande said Thursday in a speech to the country’s p...
Refugees of Libyan War Protest at World Social Forum
“We need a solution. The U.N. has created the problem, and they should do their work and fix it,” says Bright, a young Nigerian stuck in...
Morocco: Saharawi Coordinator With Minurso Receives Special Representative of UN for Western Sahara
[SPS]Shahid Alhafed -Member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Coordinator with the MINURSO, Mhamed Khadad , on Thursday re...
Morocco: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI Deepens Ties With African States
[Moroccan American Center for Policy]On an official visit to Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Gabon, King Mohammed VI underscored Morocco's commi...
Drone warfare: Niger becomes latest frontline in US war on terror
Obama administration reliance on drones to fight al-Qaida and Islamic militants sees drones spread to AfricaThe newest outpost in the US gov...
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Morocco cops attack Sahrawis – report
Moroccan police violently dispersed a protest by separatists in the Western Sahara, Algerian TV and rights activists reported on Monday, dur...
Al-Qaida unit in Mali says it has killed French hostage
Aqim says it has beheaded Philippe Verdon, who was captured in 2011, and that other French hostages are alive but at riskAl-Qaida's North Af...
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