Geography of Africa

European and African ministers agreed on Monday to try to improve conditions for migrants in Libya and seek paths such as scholarships for Africans to reach Europe legally, to cut the death toll from smuggling across the Sahara and Mediterranean.

French carmaker PSA signed a deal on Nov. 12 with three Algerian firms to set up a car-manufacturing base in the North African country with production to begin next year.

Libyan government forces have arrested four suspects responsible for kidnapping three Turkish workers in Libya, according to a local official. 

The Cesaria Evora Orchestra, with special guest star Dulce Pontes on vocals, pays tribute to the late great Cape Verdean chanteuse at the Gazi Live venue.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Brits made 70.8 million visits overseas in 2016, with 49% of all trips taking them to either Spain, France, Italy, the Republic of Ireland, or the USA.

The U.N. and the South Sudan government say that 1.25 million people in South Sudan are facing starvation, double the number from the same time last year.

A controversial Sudanese counter-insurgency unit said on Nov. 5 it had seized 19 tonnes of hashish in war-torn Darfur, in one of the largest hauls ever reported in Sudan.

The Red Cross has confirmed that more than $5m (£3.8m) of aid money was lost to fraud and corruption during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Auditors found overpriced supplies, salaries for non-existent aid workers and fake customs bills.

The disease, which raged between 2014 and 2016, claimed at least 10,000 lives.

Tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen, according to a new report, quoted by the Guardian. 

The Cesaria Evora Orchestra, with special guest star Dulce Pontes on vocals, pays tribute to the late great Cape Verdean chanteuse at the Gazi Live venue.