A UN agency has given Zambia and Zimbabwe permission to build a $5 billion hydropower dam downstream from Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to the authority overseeing its construction. Environmentalists have protested the 2,400-megawatt Batoka Gorge project, which is located 47 kilometers from the world’s largest waterfall, saying it would have a […]
King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, on Friday handed over to six top laureates of the 2018-2019 literacy program the Mohammed VI Prize. The ceremony took place after the Friday prayer at the Lalla Amina Mosque in the Atlantic city of Essaouira. The prize winners are, in the women’s category, Naima Amine (Beni […]
Rwanda Development Board (RDB) is mulling plans to invest in Gabon’s tourism sector in a bid to make travel easy for visitors of the two countries. RDB chairman Francis Gatare led a delegation that met this week with General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the transitional leader of the central African country. Talks between the two […]
