Tunisia to spend $100m to acquire COVID-19 vaccines

Tunisia has budgeted $100 million, with the help of the World Bank, to acquire covid-19 vaccines, health minister Faouzi Mahdi said Wednesday. The North African country according to Mahdi will acquire the vaccine from several producers including Pfizer with whom it has already struck a delivery deal. The World Bank-backed budget will cover purchases from […]

Spain Acknowledges Morocco’s Right to Offshore Gas & Oil Exploration

The Polisario and its supporters in Spain have suffered a new setback after the Spanish Foreign Minister acknowledged Morocco’s legitimate right to explore gas and oil in its territorial waters. Far-left party, Podemos, which supports separatism in the Sahara, has tried to instigate the Spanish government against Morocco’s oil and gas explorations offshore Tan Tan, […]

BBC to launch six new African language services

The British public broadcaster, BBC, on Wednesday announced that it will launch 11 new language services in 2017 as part of its expansion project on the continent. The new languages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. Afaan Oromo and Amharic are widely spoken in Ethiopia with […]