MALI RENAMES COLONIAL FRENCH STREET NAMES. (PHOTO).

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 Mali renames colonial French street names Mali followed Burkina Faso and Niger on Wednesday in renaming streets and squares in its capital to get rid of their French colonial names, AFP reported. Streets bearing the names of members of France's colonial administration have been rebaptised in Bamako, according to a decree by the junta chief. Cedeao Avenue (the French acronym for the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS) is also now named after a new strategic confederation that Mali has formed with Burkina Faso and Niger – the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). In all, nearly 25 names have been replaced, among them boulevards, streets, squares and public establishments. Niger and Burkina Faso have already made several changes to street and monument names in the last two years. In October, Niger renamed several historic sites in its capital Niamey which previously bore references to old colonial master France. Mali has been ruled by the military since back-to-back coups ...

LIBYAN RIVAL FACTIONS RESUME TALKS IN MOROCCO.(PHOTO).


 Libyan rival factions resume talks in Morocco


Delegations from rival Libyan institutions resumed talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back into chaos, Reuters reported.


Libya has undergone a turbulent decade since it split in 2014 between two administrations in its east and west following the NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.


The talks in Bouznika, near the Moroccan capital Rabat, were between rival legislative bodies known as the High Council of State based in Tripoli in the west and the House of Representatives based in Benghazi in the east.


Speaking at the opening of consultations between the institutions, Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita urged participants to work together to preserve Libya's unity and prepare for "credible elections."


"The numerous international and regional conferences on Libya will not replace the inter-Libyan dialogue which has credibility and ownership," he said.


A political process to end years of institutional division, outright warfare and unstable peace has been stalled since an election scheduled for December 2021 collapsed, amid disputes over the eligibility of the main candidates.


The House of Representatives was elected in 2014 as the national parliament with a four-year mandate to oversee a political transition.


Under a 2015 Libyan Political Agreement, reached in Morocco's Skhirate near Rabat, the High State Council was formed as a consultative second chamber with an advisory role.


But the House of Representatives then appointed its own rival government, saying the mandate of the prime minister of a government of national unity had expired.


The eastern-appointed government has had little clout, but its appointment revived Libya's east-west division.

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