Israel: Netanyahu requests pardon from president
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 30th formally asked President Isaac Herzog for a pardon in his long-running corruption...
Day: 3 December 2025
Sudan’s conflict is booming Africa’s war economy
Sudan’s ongoing civil war has renewed and enlarged arms and mercenary trading across North and Central Africa, according to Middle...
Gabon tourism minister detained for alleged $18m embezzlement
Gabon's tourism minister, Pascal Ogowé Siffon, is suspected of embezzling $18 million from the tourism ministry over the last two...
Egypt in talks with US over rebuilding the Gaza Strip
Egypt announced on December 2nd that it is in talks with the US to set up an international conference for...
Libya has the third highest unemployment rate in the Arab world
Libya now has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Arab world, with only Jordan and Sudan worse off...
Western Sahara: Burkina Faso and Niger back Morocco
Morocco's Autonomy Plan, also known as Resolution 2797, has received support from Burkina Faso and Niger, according to the Moroccan...
Leonid Ragozin: How Ukraine’s scandal is reshaping the war
On November 10, the Ukrainian anticorruption authorities revealed that close associates of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were allegedly involved in...
Awale Kullane: Africa’s democracy is not imported
For far too long, African youth have been told that democracy is something imported, something borrowed, something foreign to their...
Burkina Faso and Niger support Morocco’s autonomy plan
Burkina Faso and Niger have reaffirmed support for Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara, according to the Moroccan government-friendly North...
South Africa: Ex-police convicted of apartheid-era death
Two former South African police officers were convicted on December 2nd of the 1987 killing of an anti-apartheid activist, according...
Mozambique: Tens of thousands flee escalating violence
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has raised the alarm on worsening violence in Northern Mozambique, forcing close to 100,000 people...
Ex-police officers convicted of apartheid-era South Africa murder
Two former police officers in South Africa have been found guilty of the 1987 murder of an activist during the...
Mali recovers $1.2bn from miners, sets bar with new mining code
The Mali finance minister said that the audit that made way for the new mining code has helped recover 761...
Gulf states prioritise air defence amid Bahrain summit
The Gulf states are intent on finalising a joint defensive air shield “in the near future”, as stated by GCC...
Israel: head of unit that executed Palestinians promoted
The commander of the Israeli Border Police unit responsible for the killing of two unarmed Palestinians has been promoted to...
