Geography of Africa

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has been invited to visit Algeria by his Algerian counterpart Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

The invitation was presented to Nikolic on Thursday during his meeting in Belgrade with Algerian Ambassador to Serbia Abdelhamid Chebchoub.

Charter flights will be connecting Bulgaria and Morocco starting in September, the Moroccan Embassy has said.

A regular flight will be scheduled every Thursday to the Atlantic resort of Agadir in Morocco from an unnamed airport in Sofia, the website Dnevnik.bg reports, quoting a tour operator company.

Most offers to Bulgarian tourists willing to visit Agadir are all inclusive.

 I came to the "capital of the world" for a panel at Columbia University on a new and highly interesting book: "The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions." Penned by the prominent academic Michael Walzer, it is a book that explains how the secular parties that founded most post-colonial states were soon challenged and even defeated by a religious revival.

Over 3,000 refugees arrived in Italy from Tuesday till Friday, according to the country’s authorities. Italian officials say the majority of the refugees are from sub-Saharan Africa and crossed the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. The good weather conditions and the blocking of the Balkan route were the main reasons of a spite in numbers over the past 3 days via Libya-to Italy.

Arrivals of migrants and refugees to Italy and Greece across the Mediterranean routes have exceeded 150,000 between January 1 and March 10, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said.

Arrivals to the Greek islands continue with a daily average of some 2,000, the IOM said in its latest update on migrant inflow to Europe on Friday.

The Arab League's representative in Ankara has confirmed that the body has been mulling whether to close its office in the Turkish capital, along with seven other representative offices around the world.

At least 28 jihadists, 10 members of the security forces and seven civilians were killed yesterday in fighting in Tunisia near the Libyan border, the government has said.

Authorities ordered a nighttime curfew as troops deployed across the border town of Ben Guerdane to hunt for others involved in the coordinated pre-dawn attack.

Spanish police have seized fake and authentic Bulgarian passports during an operation against a criminal group that brought immigrants into the UK through airports in Spain's Canary Islands.

The group was involved in a network that helped Iranian and Albanian immigrants enter the UK illegally through Spain in order to apply for asylum, according to thelocal.es.

"The U.S. military believes that an airstrike against IS in Libya did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted," writes a U.S. daily.

The target of American forces in Libya was not the location that Serbia shared with U.S. agencies in trying to free two kidnapped Serbian officials.

U.S. Ambassador Kyle Scott told this to FoNet.