French far right and Paris-based Islamists drag French relations with Algeria to rock-bottom
Both countries have expelled each other’s diplomats as the latest diplomatic row, triggered by the arrest and indictment of an Algerian consular officer in France earlier this month, continues to escalate.
Sudan’s paramilitary attacks largest IDP camps amid world’s biggest displacement crisis, killing over 100
Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.
With 67% of the population considered “poor”, Lesotho gears up to face highest US tariff rate
The highest tariff of 50% imposed on one of the smallest and poorest sub-Saharan African countries, essentially penalizes the inability of its workers producing American brands to afford them.
Why is South Sudan on the brink of civil war again?
The world’s youngest republic, and one of its poorest, is on the brink of returning to a civil war as its unelected state leaders prepare for another armed showdown.
“Llevaré mi ‘persona non grata’ como una insignia de dignidad”, dijo el embajador sudafricano expulsado por los EEUU
“Debemos negociar con EEUU porque nuestra economía y nuestro pueblo lo necesitan. Pero nunca debemos negociar nuestra soberanía, no podría ser que nos dicen que China y Cuba no pueden ser nuestros amigos”, declaró el veterano diplomático Ebrahim Rasool al regresar a Sudáfrica.
Hundreds killed in the “deadliest single bombing” of the war in Sudan
The airstrike on one of the last major markets left with stocks in the North Darfur will likely accelerate the famine spreading in the state since last August.
“I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity”, said South African ambassador expelled by the US
“We must enter into trade negotiations with the USA because our economy and our people need them. But we must never trade our sovereignty, lest we be told that China and Cuba cannot be our friends,” said veteran diplomat Ebrahim Rasool on his return to South Africa.
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger withdraw from International Organization of La Francophonie
Ostensibly meant to foster greater cooperation between Francophone countries, the three countries allege that the OIF has become “a remote-controlled political instrument” operated from Paris to suit its “geopolitical considerations”.