Sudan's archaeological treasures are being looted from museums, with statuettes and ancient palace fragments smuggled out of the conflict-ridden country and sold online. UNESCO warned Thursday that the cultural threat has reached "unprecedented levels," citing reports of museum, heritage site, and private collection thefts. The museum, housing prehistoric artefacts from the Palaeolithic era, along with Pharaonic, Nubian, and Kerma site items from northern Sudan, is among those targeted in the escalating looting.
Five alleged people traffickers from Algeria and Egypt have been charged in a UK-France smuggling investigation. National Crime Agency officers
French President Emmanuel Macron has called for information on Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, who vanished after arriving in Algiers last
The U.S. special envoy for Sudan has expressed concern over a lack of "political appetite" among warring
Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, on behalf of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI, received, Thursday evening in Casablanca, the President
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