New images from NASA's Terra satellite have highlighted the extent of the drought in Morocco. The satellite captured an image showing the brown, parched landscape around the country’s largest city Casablanca. This shows the deteriorating conditions compared to a picture from the Aqua satellite taken a year earlier, where more green is visible.
Moroccan officials have called the situation “disastrous” explaining that 70 percent less rain has fallen in the last few months compared to an average year, according to a report in Reuters.
Libyan writer and politician Samir Shegwara has been arrested on national security charges after publishing documents that allegedly link Libya’
Drastic funding cuts at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), triggered by the Trump administration, have halted critical health programs
Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a Tunisian opposition figure arrested in February 2023 on state conspiracy charges, has begun a hunger strike,
According to reporting by Africa Intelligence, while France's army in Senegal is due to leave the country by
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