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Category: International
Spiro, electric motorbike manufacturer, to expand fleet in Togo & Benin
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
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
Mali suspends granting visas to French citizens in reciprocal move
Mali’s Foreign ministry announced Wednesday August 9 decision by authorities to suspend indefinitely issuance of visa to French nationals after the European country also made ... Read More
French “Gustave Roussy National Cancer Institute” to develop public hospitals in Egypt
Egypt’s Ministry of Health signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday August 9 with French Gustave Roussy National Cancer Institute to upgrade and raise the standards ... Read More
Romania thanks Morocco for ‘important support’ for release of hostage held in Sahel since 2015
Romania on Wednesday thanked the Kingdom of Morocco for its "important support" for the release of Romanian hostage Iulian Gherguț, who had been held in ... Read More
Ghana approves ‘minerals of the future’ policy to develop lithium mining, production
Ghana’s government has given the nod to a pioneering green-minerals policy that is aimed at helping the West African country manage the exploitation and production ... Read More
Militant Islamist violence in Sahel surges, contradicting juntas’ security claims
The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region by insurgents, armed groups, state forces and foreign mercenaries has surged this year, according to ... Read More
Rwanda genocide survivors slam UN judges’ call to halt trial of suspect Kabuga
Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have criticized United Nations court’s call to halt the trial of the nearly 90-year-old Felicien Kabuga, an alleged ... Read More
Eritreans subject to torture, sexual violence during national service — UN investigator
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers have reported that they had experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions during ... Read More
West African leaders to meet this August 10 for key Summit on Niger as Russia provides support
Leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS will meet on Thursday August 10 for an emergency Summit on the coup in Niger after the military intervention ... Read More