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China will boost military ties with Djibouti, strategically located in the Horn of Africa, state media reported on Thursday. China is seeking closer ties with African nations that could help it gain access to natural resources and provide new markets. Read more
India government this week announced $10 million grant to Mozambique as part of efforts in helping the country currently suffering from an acute drought. Mozambique has been hit by the worst drought in 35 years. Some 1.5 million hungry people Read more
In solidarity with Saudi Arabia, Morocco strongly condemned the violations by the Houthi rebels in Yemen of the truce that entered on November 19. The Houthi rebels continued to fire missiles on the borders with Saudi Arabia after the announcement Read more
The Secretary General of the Arab League, Ahmed Abou El Gheit, expressed support for the decision taken by nine Arab countries to leave the Arab-African Summit in Malabo. Nine countries have withdrew from the summit because of the presence of Read more
Nine countries showed support for Morocco’s territorial integrity by withdrawing from the Arab-African summit held in Equatorial Guinea’s capital Malabo in protest over the presence of the flag of the Polisario separatists. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Read more
“We have made it clear time and time again that we take care of European values more than many EU countries, but we could not see concrete support from Western friends … None of the promises were kept,” President Erdogan Read more
The protests of the Nubians for their right to return on their lands that are being sold or offered by the Egyptian government to investors and military high ranking officials are seriously gaining momentum. Nubian rights lawyer Mohamed Azmy warned Read more
The lower Algerian parliament has approved the budget bill for 2017 but members of the opposition party boycotted the vote with some branding posters reading “Starving the people” and “Undermining the social nature of the state” to protest against the Read more
Turkey has issued arrest warrants for Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria alleging that they took part in planning and executing a car bomb explosion that killed around 29 people in Ankara at the beginning of the year. The arrest Read more
The meeting between Saudi Prince Khaled Al Faisal, the governor of Mecca, and President Michel Aoun of Lebanon in Beirut on Monday is being considered as a warming up of ties between the two countries and the president’s office stated Read more