Unemployment in Morocco is hitting women the hardest
Morocco’s labour market remains fragile as underemployment and a widening gender gap continue to plague the country’s growth, reports government-friendly...
Month: August 2025
Houthis sentence son of former Yemeni president to death
The son of the late Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has been sentenced to death by a Houthi-led military court...
Yemen: Over a million attend rally supporting Palestinian cause
Over a million people have attended a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause, as the...
Libya border with Chad may be reopened if nations can cooperate
General Saddam Haftar, leader of Libya’s Ground Forces, has visited the Chadian president to discuss the reopening of the border...
Libya: polling staff trained up ahead of municipal elections
Libya’s High National Election Commission (HNEC) released a statement on August 2nd to say they had conducted training for polling...
Liver cancer cases rising due to preventable factors
A report published by The Lancet has found that three out of five liver cancer cases worldwide are linked to...
Trump sees mineral opportunity in DR Congo peace deal
President Trump is reportedly preparing a bold, yet potentially problematic, peace deal to definitively end the long-standing conflict in eastern...
Five years on, Lebanon reflects on Beirut port explosion
August 4th marked the five-year anniversary of Lebanon's 2020 Beirut port blast, as reported by The National. The port blast...
Moroccan woman sentenced to life after killing her newborn
The Spanish Supreme Court has sentenced a Moroccan woman to life in prison for suffocating her newborn baby shortly after...
NATO and US create new funding plan for Ukraine’s weapons
NATO and the United States have joined forces to implement a new funding system to deliver military aid to Ukraine,...
Leaders of Turkey, Italy, Libya meet on migration issues
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted a high-level meeting in Istanbul with the Prime Ministers of Italy and Libya’s UN-recognised...
Sudan strained from cholera outbreak in Darfur, UNICEF reports
On July 3rd, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) reported that across the five states that make up...
Libya and Belarus allegedly involved in migration manipulation
The European Commission is investigating the involvement of Belarus and Russia with irregular migration into southern Europe after a string...
Iran cuts zeros from declining national currency
In an bid to ease financial transactions, the Iranian parliament’s Economic Commission has agreed to remove four zeros from Iran's...
Mali’s ex-PM charged with undermining the state
Mali’s military government has charged one of the country’s former prime ministers with crimes against the state, following his post...
