The EU on Thursday announced 210 million euros to help Mauritania crack down on people smugglers and deter migrant boats from taking off, as the number of people attempting the dangerous Atlantic crossing from West Africa to Europe rises sharply
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On Thursday, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince showed the marks left by three consecutive days of protests.
""We are here ... (because) the white man came into Asanteman to loot and destroy it,"
UN human rights chief says he is deeply concerned about widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in Gaza by Israeli Defence Forces.
To modernize public transportation, Freetown recently acquired 50 buses under the Integrated and Resilient Urban Mobility Project, a collaboration between the World Bank and the government of Sierra Leone
At least 13 Sudanese migrants died and 27 others are believed missing after their small metal boat sank Thursday off the Tunisian coast as they sought to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe, according to local authorities.
The coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are in haste to quit West Africa's regional bloc without following its rules of exit, the body said Thursday as its ministers met to deliberate on growing division and political tension in the region.
The bodies of drowned migrants were pulled from the Drina River marking Bosnia's border with Serbia.
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His speech comes as polls suggest the ruling party could lose its majority for the first time, in elections to be held later this year.
