Morocco’s railway operator picks Alstom for maintenance of its new-generation electric locomotives

Morocco’s national railway operator (Office National des Chemins de Fer) has chosen French Alstom company to ensure the maintenance of new-generation PRIMA M4 electric locomotives. An agreement was signed Wednesday by the two partners. It comes after the contract won by Alstom Morocco in 2018 for the supply of 30 locomotives. Since then, fifteen PRIMA […]

Burkina Faso: Ibrahim Traoré to be inaugurated President of Transition Friday

The Constitutional Council in Burkina Faso announced that the leader of the junta in power in the country Ibrahim Traore will be sworn in on Friday as the President of the transition, less than a month after seizing power. The Constitutional Council “takes note of the resignation” of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, author of a […]

Outrage mounts over arrest of writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers

The Algerian regime has confirmed through its news agency the arbitrary arrest of Boualem Sansal, a renowned novelist with a critic of the military regime in Algiers. In a diatribe on the national news agency APS, the military regime showed its contempt for free writers such as Sansal whom it called “pseudo writer,” while describing […]