An Italian appeals court has refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a ...

Italian judges Friday refused to sign off on the detention of migrants in centres in Albania, dealing a fresh blow to ...

The Italian government has suffered another legal defeat over its efforts to process asylum applications by migrants arriving ...

At 7.30 a.m. on Tuesday, the Italian navy vessel Cassiopeia arrived in the Albanian port of Shengjin. On board were 49 migrants who had hoped to start a new, better life in Europe but had been rescued ...

Italian authorities have rejected the asylum requests of 43 asylum-seekers transferred to Albania in a speedy procedure that ...

This decision was announced December 27 at Man Cathedral during a pastoral visit by Archbishop Mauricio Rueda Beltz, the apostolic nuncio to Ivory Coast. “The sede plena apostolic administrator ...

What’s going on here? Ivory Coast's increased port fees are squeezing cocoa giants Barry Callebaut and Olam, forcing them to cut down on cocoa purchases. Barry Callebaut and Olam, heavyweights in the ...

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ABIDJAN, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The chief of staff of Ivory Coast's army has ordered the suspension of five officials tasked with combating cocoa smuggling in the west of the country, the army said in ...

Instead, the weapons now come from African countries with weak control of their own weapons stockpiles, notably the Central African Republic and Ivory Coast. Sudan has also been an important ...

A vessel loaded with 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate – the same chemical that left large parts of Beirut in ruins in an explosion in 2020 – is nearing the port of Abidjan. Campaigners have ...

The fermented cassava meal has long been a marker of national identity in Ivory Coast, beloved across all levels of society in the West African nation. And now, the United Nations has secured ...