Tag Archives: Africa
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Mauritanian refugees in Senegal demand transfer to a 3rd country
A group of black Mauritanians who were expelled to Senegal following racial unrest in 1989 said Tuesday they had been on hunger strike for a week to demand relocation to a third country. About 30 youths, women and elderly people lay on plastic mats or the ground in front of the United Nations refugee agency […]
Africans protest in #China as man dies in police custody
More than 100 Africans protested on Tuesday outside a police station in China’s southern Guangdong province after an African man died in police custody. The protest in Guangdong’s capital Guangzhou, which brought traffic to a halt, lasted for two hours on Tuesday, Xinhua reported, citing an official from the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau. The […]
Project “Snooker” : #SouthAfrica’s MTN telecom #Iran bribery scandal
Note: The United States granted South Africa an exemption from financial sanctions after Iranian imports from Iran fell 43 percent to 286,072 tonnes in April from the previous month For a South African telecommunications company, it represented a unique chance to seize what its chief executive called “one of the most significant ‘virgin’ mobile opportunities in […]
#WesternSahara’s Overlooked Arab Spring
In the wake of the ongoing unrest across the Arab world, voices from the forgotten Western Sahara conflict claim their role in the so-called Arab Spring. DW talked to a Western Sahara independence activist. Sidi Ahmed Talmidi was one of the nine-member group responsible for the negotiations with the Moroccan government during the events in […]
Gallery: Azawad Interim Council President Inauguration
Supporters of an independent Azawad gathered in Mali on Friday, 15 June 2012 for the official inauguration of an interim president, MNLA Secretary-General, Bilal Ag Acherif. Ag Cherif reiterated [fr] the aims of the council as listed in the Azawadi Declaration of Independence and announced initiatives to establish state institutions, and to develop a charter that defines the fundamental principles of a […]
