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Morocco King Slams Development Delays In Restive North

Morocco's king has rebuked ministers over delays to a development programme meant to pump investment into a region...

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Banned Bahraini Newspaper Fires Staff

A independent Bahraini newspaper has sacked its staff three weeks after Sunni-dominated authorities banned it on...

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Spain Rescues More Than 200 Migrants From Med

Spanish coastguards rescued more than 200 migrants on Saturday as they attempted to make the perilous sea crossing from...

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Morocco Busts ‘IS-Linked Cell Plotting Tourist Attacks’

Authorities in Morocco on Thursday dismantled a suspected "terrorist cell" linked to the Islamic State group and...

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Morocco Protest Leader ‘beaten’ During Arrest

The leader of a protest movement in northern Morocco was "severely" beaten and verbally abused by police during his...

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UN Commends Morocco’s Acceptance To Host Syrian Refugees

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, welcomes the decision by the Kingdom of Morocco to admit a group of Syrian refugees...

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Ghana’s Failing Education System Can Be Salvaged By PPPs – IMANI

Yesterday’s Parliamentary debate on basic schools with crumbling buildings and the subsequent revelation by the...

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Ghana Receives 100 Million Euros From Germany’s ‘Compact For Africa’

Ghana has been named as one of the three countries in Africa to benefit from the Germany’s “Compact with Africa”...

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Migration Crisis In Numbers – IOM Releases Staggering Figures

IOM Rome spokesperson Flavio Di Giacomo reported that when IOM last released figures (13 June), over 3,000 migrants...

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Nominees For AIF 2017 Announced

The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) today announced the top 10 nominees who will be contending for the 2017...

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Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis

The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in...

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Turkey FM In Doha As UN ‘alarmed’ By Gulf Crisis

The search for a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis intensified Wednesday as Turkey's foreign minister landed in...

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Macron In Morocco To Discuss Libya, Qatar Crisis

French President Emmanuel Macron was in Morocco Wednesday on a 24-hour visit for talks on battling terrorism as well as...

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Morocco Jails 25 Protesters Over Rif Protests

A court in Morocco on Wednesday sentenced 25 demonstrators and suspected members of a grassroots protest movement to 18...

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Ghana Receives EUR100 Million From Germany’s ‘Compact With Africa’ Programme

Ghana has been named as one of the three countries in Africa to benefit from the Germany’s “Compact with Africa”...

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Ghana Receives EUR100m From Germany’s ‘Compact With Africa’ Programme

Ghana has been named as one of the three countries in Africa to benefit from the Germany’s “Compact with Africa”...

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Moroccan Fossil Find Rearranges Homo Sapiens Family Tree

This week's unveiling of the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains has painted an excitingly chaotic picture of what Earth...

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Merkel’s G20-Africa Meet Aims To Reduce Poverty, Migrant Influx

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will on Monday meet African leaders in Berlin on initiatives aiming to reduce the...

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Morocco Detains Four As Rif Protests Persist

Moroccan police have detained four people in northern Morocco, an official and an activist said, as protests continued...