Splitting South Sudan Into 28 States – Right Move, Wrong Time?
South Sudan’s fragile peace deal is already under heavy pressure. President Kiir’s decision to carve the country into 28 new states puts it under even more. President Salva Kiir’s decision, announced last Friday, to create 28 states in South Sudan, up from the current ten, risks adding another destabilising element to the peace pact signed […]
Egypt Says Russia’s Air Strikes In Syria Will Destroy Islamic State
RUSSIA’S intervention in Syria will curtail the spread of terrorism and help deal a fatal blow to Islamic State in the war-torn country, Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said on Saturday. Russia launched air strikes in Syria on Wednesday in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades, marking a dramatic escalation in a more than […]
First Pictures Of Zimbabwe’s Baby Elephants Exported To China Emerge
China’s state Xinhua news agency has published the first pictures of a group of young elephants controversially exported from Zimbabwe in July. The four photos show some of the 24 elephants near and in a concrete-lined water feature at what the news agency calls Chimelong National Rare Animals and Plants Provenance Centre in Guangzhou province. […]
ISIS Terrorists Beg Refugees To Return Home To Middle East: We Have Phones, Internet And Cars — Where Are You Going?
ISLAMIC STATE (ISIS) has released a whining film questioning why people are fleeing the Middle East to Europe instead of joining their so-called Caliphate. The crazed Islamists created the slickly-produced footage in a bid to stem the huge numbers of terrified people fleeing from the lands they have captured. In desperation they even urge people […]
‘The West Killed Gaddafi So They Must Deal With Immigrants’ – Zuma
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has lambasted NATO for undermining security in Africa and triggering the current migrant crisis that now faces Europe South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has lain the blame for the current surge of refugees crossing the Mediterranean Sea into Europe at the feet of the Europeans themselves, reported Eyewitness News. He […]
Enough Is Enough: Europe Shuts Its Migrant Doors
Europe was on lockdown last night as states across the continent said they could take no more migrants and slammed their borders shut. The European Union’s 20-year-old border-free travel zone unravelled soon after Germany brought back passport checks, admitting it could no longer cope with the massive influx. Other states swiftly followed Germany’s lead and […]
Europe Must Deal With the Blowback From Syria
Over the past month, nothing has captured the global media’s attention so much as the migrant, asylum-seeking and refugee crisis in Europe. Broadcasts show the desperate trips across the Mediterranean by, primarily, Eritreans seeking to get to Europe. The payments, about $2,000 each. The overcrowding of the rickety boats. The inevitable deaths, by suffocation or […]
Soyo/DRC Night Navigation Banned Due to Lack of Lighting Signals
The night river traffic between the town of Soyo and the regions of Boma and Matadi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), through the Nóqui municipality border, northern Zaire province, has been prohibited three years ago due to lack of lighting signals looted by unknown people. The head of security department of the Port […]
Fight Against Migration Requires ‘Settlement of Conflicts, Support to Development’
Algeria, Niger and Chad on Sunday called on the international community to address the global migration issue by finding solutions to its root causes, through the settlement of conflicts and supporting development programmes. Algeria, Niger and Chad “underlined the alarming proportions reached by the global migration and called to address its root causes by finding […]
Mauritanian-Sahrawi Solidarity Parliamentary Group Delegation On Visit to Saharawi Refugee Camps
A delegation consisting of members of Mauritanian-Sahrawi Solidarity Parliamentary Group arrived Monday in the Saharawi refugee camps. The delegation which includes members of various Mauritanian political parties, is headed by the Chairman of the Foreign and Defense Committee at the National Assembly of Mauritania, Mr. Habib Ould Adah, who is accompanied by the Secretary General […]
