Bangladesh court sentences former prime minister to death
Former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina has been sentenced to death in absentia after a court ruling found her...
Day: 18 November 2025
Swiss NGO: Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in Africa
Swiss NGO Public Eye accused Nestlé of a “double standard”, alleging that it sells infant cereal in Africa with more...
Lorenzo Maria Pacini: US-China rivalry in the twenty-first century
The competition between the United States and China is not the first major rivalry between powers to raise the issue...
Cholera and Marburg outbreaks strain African healthcare sectors
According to Africa News on November 17th, Ethiopia recorded its first-ever outbreak of the Marburg virus, which is a fatal...
French firm TotalEnergies accused of war crimes in Mozambique
A German NGO is suing French energy giant TotalEnergies for complicity in war crimes in Mozambique after the torture and...
UN humanitarian chief visits Sudan refugee camps
Tom Fletcher, the UN's Humanitarian Chief paid an official visit to Sudanese refugee camps in the Darfur region as part...
Moroccan parties working on Western Sahara plan updates
Political parties in Morocco are working on updating the 2007 Western Sahara autonomy plan, after King Mohammed VI called for...
Another hunger strike initiated by Tunisian opposition in jail
A third Tunisian opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi, initiated a hunger strike in prison on November 8th, citing poor conditions in...
Mali: Ancient manuscripts return to Timbuktu for analysis
According to Africa News via AP on November 17, staff at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, Mali, are scanning...
Gunmen abduct 25 schoolgirls in north-western Nigeria
On November 17, gunmen attacked a high school in north-western Nigeria, abducting 25 school girls and killing one staff member....
Russia: US is acting in bad faith over Gaza
Russia's envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, has accused the Trump administration of acting in "bad faith" over its Gaza...
Libyan fuel smuggling may harm foreign investment prospects
While Libya's oil industry has seen major investments from global companies, the sector's constant link to corruption and smuggling is...
Jordan to bring back military conscription for men
Jordan's Parliament has passed a law to reintroduce military conscription for men, years after it was repealed in 1991, according...
Spanish opposition party rejects Morocco’s Western Sahara plan
The Spanish opposition's Popular Party (PP) has rejected the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as a resolution to the Western Sahara dispute,...
Germany to lift suspension of arms exports to Israel
The German government is expected to lift an order that suspended arms exports to Israel, according to the Middle East...
