The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
Abstract: The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture stands as one of the most important dietary revolutions in human history. Yet, due to a scarcity of well-preserved human remains from Pleistocene sites, little is known about the dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups. Here we present the isotopic...
New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....
MARWAN, the #Moroccan#Research & #Education#Network, recently welcomed a significant #connectivity upgrade from Rabat to London, where it peers with the GÉANT network with onward traffic to other R&E networks around the world.
The disruption of oil exports from South Sudan after one of its key oil pipelines to international markets was damaged in February could further escalate already acute level of violence and in security in the country, experts have warned....
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. The IOM said the circumstances of their deaths and their nationalities are still unknown but they believe they died being smuggled through the desert towards the Mediterranean....
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam....
Cholera vaccines are expected to arrive in Sudan this month as the country continues to face a deadly outbreak of the disease amidst the ongoing war, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Tuesday....
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazoauni boasted the North African country’s green hydrogen potential and called on European investors attending the European Union – African Union summit at the Global Gateway Forum to seize opportunities....
Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the coming years owing to the drying up of ‘traditional’ water sources, thanks in part to effects climate change and degradation of the...
Rival parties in Libya must mobilize through dialogue to finalize electoral laws and enable presidential and parliamentary elections to take place, a senior United Nations official told the 15-member organ today, in his first briefing since devastating floods caused widespread death and destruction in the north-east....
The appeal trial of 102 people accused of having lynched to death Djamel Bensmaïl, a young painter who came to help put out deadly fires in Kabylia, in northern Algeria, during the summer of 2021 and wrongly taken for a arsonist, opened on Sunday October 15 in Algiers, noted an AFP journalist......
Deadly floods triggered by a powerful storm have left a trail of destruction in eastern Libya. Thousands of bodies were recovered in one city alone after dams collapsed and wiped out entire neighborhoods....
“#NorthAfrica is not immune to #ClimateChange, but this is also about #corruption and incompetence. In #Morocco perhaps you had seconds or minutes when the tectonic plates moved, but here in #Libya there was plenty of warning about this hurricane … yet there was no evacuation of #Derna. "
Translated from French, Une enfance juive en Méditerranée musulmane (2012) is a collection of stories curated by Leïla SEBBAR. Chochana Boukhobza, Roger Dadoun, Anny Dayan-Rosenman, Tobie Nathan, Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech....
Brazilian authorities bury deceased migrants who drifted in African boat to the Amazon (apnews.com)
The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital of Belem. Fishermen off the coast of Para found the boat adrift April 13, carrying the bodies that were already decomposing. Brazilian officials later said...
Isotopic evidence of high reliance on plant food among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers at Taforalt, Morocco - Nature Ecology & Evolution [Open Access] (doi.org)
Abstract: The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture stands as one of the most important dietary revolutions in human history. Yet, due to a scarcity of well-preserved human remains from Pleistocene sites, little is known about the dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups. Here we present the isotopic...
Human rights activists in Western Sahara are being targeted by mobile malware (therecord.media)
New mobile malware masquerading as a news app has been spotted targeting human rights activists associated with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a partially recognized state in the western part of the Sahara desert....
South Sudan’s disrupted oil exports due to neighboring Sudan’s civil war could escalate insecurity (northafricapost.com)
The disruption of oil exports from South Sudan after one of its key oil pipelines to international markets was damaged in February could further escalate already acute level of violence and in security in the country, experts have warned....
At least 65 migrant bodies found in Libya mass grave, says UN (www.bbc.com)
A mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants has been found in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. The IOM said the circumstances of their deaths and their nationalities are still unknown but they believe they died being smuggled through the desert towards the Mediterranean....
Egypt says talks over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have failed (www.reuters.com)
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam....
Humanitarians step up response to deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan (news.un.org)
Cholera vaccines are expected to arrive in Sudan this month as the country continues to face a deadly outbreak of the disease amidst the ongoing war, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Tuesday....
Mauritania’s President woos European investors for green hydrogen projects (northafricapost.com)
Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazoauni boasted the North African country’s green hydrogen potential and called on European investors attending the European Union – African Union summit at the Global Gateway Forum to seize opportunities....
Climate Change Turns African Rivers into Epicentres of Conflict (www.ipsnews.net)
Almost all major river basins in Africa have become the epicentres for conflicts over the last 20 years, and agricultural yields on the continent could drop by up to 50 percent in the coming years owing to the drying up of ‘traditional’ water sources, thanks in part to effects climate change and degradation of the...
United Nations Security Council urges Libya rivals to finalize post-Disaster election laws (www.miragenews.com)
Rival parties in Libya must mobilize through dialogue to finalize electoral laws and enable presidential and parliamentary elections to take place, a senior United Nations official told the 15-member organ today, in his first briefing since devastating floods caused widespread death and destruction in the north-east....
Algeria: appeal trial begins for around a hundred people accused of lynching a man during the 2021 fires (globeecho.com)
The appeal trial of 102 people accused of having lynched to death Djamel Bensmaïl, a young painter who came to help put out deadly fires in Kabylia, in northern Algeria, during the summer of 2021 and wrongly taken for a arsonist, opened on Sunday October 15 in Algiers, noted an AFP journalist......
Libya: More than 2,000 dead after catastrophic floods (www.dw.com)
Deadly floods triggered by a powerful storm have left a trail of destruction in eastern Libya. Thousands of bodies were recovered in one city alone after dams collapsed and wiped out entire neighborhoods....
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean (University of California Press, 2023)
Translated from French, Une enfance juive en Méditerranée musulmane (2012) is a collection of stories curated by Leïla SEBBAR. Chochana Boukhobza, Roger Dadoun, Anny Dayan-Rosenman, Tobie Nathan, Rosie Pinhas-Delpuech....