Madrid issues fresh threats against Morocco, as Rabat seeks “sovereignty” talks over the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, reminiscent of its equally bogus claims over the Western Sahara.
Norway’s oil and gas giant Equinor recently posted its strongest quarterly result in years. A Norwegian non-profit has now put a number on what that oil and gas costs in human lives
The world has never been closer to controlling HIV, yet just as infections and deaths hit historic lows, the very funding that made it possible is being pulled away.
MEPs and a group of EU governments want the EU Commission to use its blocking statute to prevent US sanctions against International Criminal Court judges from applying to EU firms and banks.
The EU’s election observation mission in Zambia has pointed to major irregularities in its presidential polls. The country’s mining sector, which has close links to the president, is at the heart of the EU’s biggest Global Gateway project.
The BRICS group of emerging economies have repeatedly criticised the EU’s carbon border levy. But will they respond with their own policy aimed at EU exports?
EU funds for third countries to stop migrants are paying for police brutality, desert dumping, and racist profiling, as last seen in Morocco’s operation to stop people entering the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.
Morocco has shown it could stop people swimming to Spanish enclaves if it wanted to, amid fears in Spain and Portugal it was abusing the crisis to extort political concessions.
Rwanda is seeking to host EU migrants, in return for a free pass on its abuses in DR Congo and at home. But the idea is “all show and no substance”, say critics, who believe the scheme is doomed to fail.
Spain’s North African enclave had long been a migrant hotspot, with its local sea known as a ‘cemetery’ to locals. But a sudden increase in arrivals on Thursday, leaving 27 dead, has prompted EU talk of freezing Schenegen travel freedoms.
By filming a story of exile and homecoming in Western Sahara, Christopher Nolan’s production turned an unresolved homeland into scenery — and exposed the need for ethical standards governing film locations.
EU foreign ministers have imposed a ban on Sudan’s gold trade in a bid to curb financing of its civil war – but they ignored MEPs’ demands to designate a militia accused of genocide as a terror group.
If the Sakharov prize I hold is to mean anything, it must mean that Sudan matters to Europe, that the lives of Sudanese people are worth the same as those in Ukraine or Gaza. It cannot possibly mean that the same institutions who awarded me this prize are cutting deals with those funding the genocide of my own people.
For the past two days, the Socialists & Democrats have held their “Africa Days”, a space for dialogue and co-creation between politicians, civil society, youth leaders, women’s movements, trade unions from both regions, and members of the diaspora.
The EU finds itself Trumped in north AfricaThe US is emerging as the main partner for Libya and Morocco, with the EU likely to see its own influence in North Africa diluted in the process.
The risks of Ebola cases in the EU is still “very low”, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has said. But it has still urged EU states to boost their preparedness.
Europe’s ugly anti‑migrant politics just found a new stage: South AfricaSouth Africa is facing a anti-migrant crisis that is rerunning many of the arguments, rhetoric and racism seen in Europe over the past decade.
Ministers say that Global Gateway should be a ‘core element’ of the bloc’s development offer – but have urged the EU Commission to be more transparent in how projects are selected.
There is overwhelming evidence of UAE support to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. But the EU is unwilling to jeopardise its close economic and security relations with Abu Dhabi – instead, the bloc continue to issue abysmally weak statements referring only to ‘external actors’ fuelling the war in Sudan.
Bent on reducing arrivals to ensure its newly-minted asylum rules can more easily deliver results, the EU Commission is promising more support for regimes across northern Africa.