Sudan crisis may destabilize wider region as army-rebels truces fail

As fighting continues to rage in Sudan’s capital Khartoum after a 24-hour-ceasefire failed to hold, African and world leaders warned of the real danger that the escalating crisis in Sudan could spill over to the wider region and degenerate into a security and humanitarian crisis on a disastrous scale. UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday […]

AfDB Lends Morocco Over $200 Mln for Social & Health Services

The African Development Bank approved on Wednesday a $204 million loan to Morocco to help the North African country upgrade social and medical services provided to disabled persons, poor women and children. The funding will finance the building of two hospitals in the southern cities of Guelmim and Ouarzazate, set up 144 units for special […]

MAP news agency at odds with national press council

MAP news agency published a story on Monday saying that it will proceed to deliver its own press accreditations to its journalists while describing the national body governing national press accreditations as “unconstitutional and unelected.” It did not take long for the council to respond with a detailed statement warning the administration of the state […]