The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) seems determined to look more closely at many cases of violations of human rights and freedoms in…
Monthly Archives: May, 2013
Battling the wind in his World War I biplane, a French pilot landed on a sandy Moroccan airstrip. Nearly 90 years on, a museum honors his…
Suicide attacks on a French-run mine and a military base in northern Niger have shown how an Islamist threat is spreading across the weak nations of…
Crime & Justice | 2013-05-31 Tunis embassy attackers get off easy Tunisia’s government says it is working to appeal the “lenient” sentences for convicted embassy assailants.…
From a dusty desert outpost, Marrakech has grown into a city that seems to exist in several epochs and several continents at once. You can haggle…
The World Economic Forum’s Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 ranked 140 countries according to the attractiveness and competitiveness of their travel and tourism industries, and this year 35 African…
African Development Bank – The 48th annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) opened Monday in Marrakech, Morocco, with a focus on the need for…
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the regional financing institution, which currently engaged aggressively in supporting regional integration of the continent through innovative financing mechanisms of infrastructure…