Cairo’s request for a €50.20 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for agricultural purposes has been approved by the bank’s board. The amount will be used to implement the Egyptian National Drainage program (NDP) destined to improve the country’s agricultural production and household income generation by developing irrigation systems as well as avoid […]
Algerian NGOs have announced Saturday in Algiers the setting up of a committee to fight torture and violence suffered by prisoners of conscience, after accusations of rape shocked the public opinion. The testimony in early February of Walid Nekiche, a 25-year-old pro-democracy activist, who claims to have been tortured and sexually assaulted by members […]
Cameroonian authorities launched Tuesday November 21 Cameroon-Chad Interconnection Project, a bilateral high-voltage (HV) interconnection project between the two countries that involves 1.556 km of new transmission lines financed by the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to the tune of $750 million. Gaston Eloundou Essomba, Cameroon’s minister of Energy launched the interconnection project […]
