Category: International

Burkina Faso strips off French company Meridian of new Ouagadougou international airport contract

August 14, 2023

Burkina Faso authorities have cancelled a concession deal with French company Meridian AM to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new International airport in ... Read More

Tuaregs brace for a return to arms as tension simmers in Sahel

August 14, 2023

The new Sahel nation states have obviously failed to embrace diversity and integrate the Tuareg people whose leaders in Mali and Niger consider a return ... Read More

Bazoum to be tried for treason (CNSP)

August 14, 2023

Niger’s new authorities who took power late July in a coup are planning to try deposed leader Mohamed Bazoum for treason amid international calls to ... Read More

Niger: as ECOWAS force on ‘standby’ for intervention, coup leaders open to talks, say mediators

August 14, 2023

Talks between a delegation of senior Nigerian Islamic scholars and the Niger's coup leaders in Niamey have been “constructive” and the latter are open to ... Read More

Africa’s venture-capital market shrunk by whooping 40% in 2023, as startups struggle

August 13, 2023

The African venture-capital (VC) market witnessed a 40% drop in funding from the previous year in the first six months of 2023, reflecting cautious investor ... Read More

Bali to host 8th Hassan II Great World Water Prize on May 18, 2024

August 13, 2023

The 8th Hassan II Great World Water Prize will be held on May 18, 2024 in Bali, Indonesia, under the theme "Water resource security for ... Read More

Niger: Algeria fears Morocco’s influence could be strengthened by ECOWAS military operation

August 13, 2023

The Algerian regime has openly expressed its firm opposition to any military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) against the putschists ... Read More

CAR Defense Minister to visit Russia next week amid talks for Moscow to set up military base

August 12, 2023

Defense Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR) Claude Rameaux Bireau is set to visit Russia next week amid talks between the two countries for ... Read More

Spiro, electric motorbike manufacturer, to expand fleet in Togo & Benin

August 11, 2023

Spiro, a leading electric motorbike manufacturer and clean energy provider in Africa, has landed $63 million loan from GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure ... Read More

China’s Huayou mulls $20 bln EV battery investment in Morocco’s Sahara

August 10, 2023

Huayou, a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles battery materials, would invest 200 billion dirhams or $20 bln in a plant in Morocco’s region of Laayoune ... Read More