Casablanca (Morocco) (AFP) - Hundreds of people staged an angry protest Wednesday in the Moroccan city of Casablanca against sexual harassment after footage of a woman being assaulted on a bus caused outrage across the North African country. We are not afraid Liberate public space chanted the protesters, gathered in the centre of Morocco's e ...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - France said Wednesday it wants the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon to stick to its current mandate, opposing US calls to strengthen the force's authority to deal with arms movements by Hezbollah, the Shiite militia. Anne Gueguen, France's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, told report ...

Yaoundà (AFP) - A child bomber killed four members of a local self-defence group late Tuesday in northern Cameroon, an area often targeted by Boko Haram jihadists in their long-running insurgency. The attack in the village of Amchide, near the Nigerian border, was confirmed on Wednesday by a member of the self-defence force who requested anonym ...

London (AFP) - British travel group Thomas Cook, one of the world's biggest tour operators, said it would resume organising holidays to Tunisia, more than two years after a terror attack in which 38 people were killed. At the end of July this year, the UK government changed its advice for Tunisia meaning that British holidaymakers can now trave ...

Luanda (AFP) - Despite fabulous oil riches, Angola remains one of the poorest countries in the world and is one of the most closed societies on the African continent. The southern African country was ravaged by a devastating civil war between 1975 and 2002 and has been led since 1979 by President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, who is to hand over powe ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angolans cast their ballots Wednesday in an election marking the end of President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos's 38-year reign, with his MPLA party set to retain power despite an economic crisis. The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to defeat opposition parties, which are stifled by D ...

Luanda (AFP) - Angolans vote Wednesday in an election marking the end of President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos's 38-year reign, with his MPLA party set to retain power despite the economic crisis. The MPLA, which has ruled since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, is expected to defeat opposition parties that are stifled by Dos Santos's aut ...

Sava Region (Madagascar) (AFP) - Hit by rampant speculation and a collapse in production following cyclone Enawo, the price of vanilla -- Madagascar's largest export -- has surged in recent months. Ice cream, aromatherapy, perfume and haute cuisine: all use the spice sourced from the Indian Ocean island which accounts for about 80 percent of glo ...

The Intergovernmental Action Group Against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (GIABA) will between August 28 to 30, 2017 hold a regional consultative meeting on the dimensions that promote cross border financial crimes among gender and youth groups. The event is slated for the M-Plaza Hotel in Accra, Ghana. Participants for ...