Drug Trafficking: Five individuals, including two Algerians, arrested in Eastern Morocco

Five individuals, including two Algerians, were arrested Monday morning in the Moroccan eastern city of Oujda for their alleged involvement in a criminal network of international drug trafficking, National Police (DGSN) said in a statement.   The suspects were arrested in several simultaneous operations carried out in the city of Oujda, and neighboring Ahfir, Aïn […]

Mali’s Premier warns of ECOWAS’s dislocation if intervention in Niger goes ahead

Choguel Kokalla Maiga, the Prime minister of Mali’s transitional government, posited Monday August 21 that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will stop existing if it invades Niger, currently ruled by a junta which deposed the elected President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26. “If ECOWAS starts a war in Niger, it will cease […]

Pandemic and Ukraine war are pushing Africa’s power companies to the brink

The COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine have been pushing many electric grid utilities in Africa — which have long been strapped for cash — close to financial collapse, whereby this situation is in turn also slowing down the continent’s clean energy transition. Ghana’s electric grid is in dire straits. In the mid-2010s, […]