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Madagascar: khat and Diego-Suarez
In Madagascar, no laws regulates cultivation, sale or consumption: neither prohibited nor permitted, consumption of khat is tolerated. For the World Well being Group (WHO), this plant is without doubt one of the medication.
Khat was launched within the early twentieth century in Diego-Suarez, the capital of the northern a part of the island, by Yemeni, Somali and Comorian emigrants who had been recruited to fulfill the labor wants of French settlers. The Diego-Suarez area is in the present day the primary khat-producing…
a petition against an elected Islamist who justified the assassination of Samuel Paty
In Tunisia, civil society figures condemn the words of an Islamist deputy who justified the assassination in France of history professor Samuel Paty. Coming from academia, research, or the art world, about forty of them have signed an unequivocal petition to condemn dumb remarks and demand justice.
The signatories, primarily from progressive and modernist academia, find it scandalous that a member of the nation can afford to justify death by beheading of French teacher, reports our correspondent in Tunis, Michel Picard.…
Sudan’s pro-democracy chief al-Mahdi says the Israeli deal will ignite battle
Former Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi on Saturday issued an announcement saying President Donald Trump that Sudan would start normalizing ties with Israel.
Al-Mahdi, who's the nation's final democratically elected premiere and leads the nation's largest political occasion, mentioned he withdrew from a government-organized non secular convention on Saturday within the capital Khartoum, in protest of Friday's announcement.
"This assertion is opposite to Sudan's nationwide regulation ... and…
The Canary Islands, a new “prison” for migrants from Europe
In one week since October 17, more than 2,600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands, corresponding to the whole of 2019. The authorities seem overwhelmed. The health situation due to Covid prevents any repatriation to their countries of origin or transfer to the European continent.
After sometimes a thousand kilometers and one to fifteen days of dangerous sea crossing, between 300 and 400 immigrants reach the coast of the Canary Islands every day, the island to…
For Donald Trump, Egypt ought to blow up the dam of the Renaissance
Donald Trump introduced with nice fanfare the normalization of ties between Israel and Sudan. The US president took the chance to deal with one other challenge that Sudan and Egypt cherished, the massive dam on the Nile that Ethiopia has begun to fill with out the prior consent of its neighbors and regardless of threats from Cairo. Donald Trump went additional by guaranteeing that Egypt needed to blow…
Ethiopia convenes the US Ambassador over Trump’s remarks to GERD
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian International Minister Gedu Andargachew immediately summoned US Ambassador Mike Raynor to hunt clarification on President Donald Trump's remarks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) throughout his phone dialog with the Prime Ministers of Sudan and Israel.
Gedu harassed the assertion about GERD and the negotiation course of so deceptive and unsuitable as GERD doesn't cease the stream of the Nile, based on the Ministry of International Affairs.
He stated the incitement to warfare…
The Harmattan period could increase the number of cases
In Burkina Faso, the number of active cases is 399 in eleven regions of the country. A number rising given the numbers for the past two weeks, according to the coordinator of the Operations Center for Response to Health Situations. Burkinabè will have to learn to live with Covid-19, but above all pay extra attention to respect for barrier movements. And the Harmattan period with its dry wind is not meant to improve the situation.
Last week, the country registered 93 cases. This week there are 46 new positive cases.…
Somalia’s new cupboard swore in earlier than the December election
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's first cupboard for the reason that dismissal of Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire final July was sworn in on Saturday because the East African nation is heading for elections in December 2020.
The 27-man cupboard, led by Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, which incorporates 4 ladies, took an oath on the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu, abbreviated after gaining unanimous assist.
Roble's cupboard, which has greater than 50% of former ministers reinstated on the topic, is predicted to…
Guinea’s President Alpha Condé wins re-election with 59.5% of the vote
Guinea's President Alpha Condé has gained 59.49 p.c of the vote in a extremely controversial election, searching for a controversial third time period, in response to preliminary outcomes introduced by the nation's electoral authority on Saturday.
His major rival, opposition politician Cellou Dalein Diallo - who claimed victory…
Ethiopia blows Trump’s comment that Egypt will ‘blow up’ the Nile Dam
Ethiopia on Saturday condemned "war-threatening threats" over the massive dam it has nearly accomplished on the Blue Nile River, a day after US President Donald Trump stated downstream Egypt would "blow up" the challenge it has known as an existential menace.
With out naming Trump or america, the assertion from Prime Minister…