PAM’s Secretary General Benchamach Re-elected Upper House Speaker

Hakim Benchamach of the opposition PAM party retained his post as Speaker of the Upper House after taking 63 of the votes to 19 for his Islamist PJD rival Nabil Chikhi. The election was marked by the abstention of another opposition party, the Istiqlal Party, whose 28 Upper House members judged the vote as “non-democratic”. […]

Cameroon kickstarts power interconnection project with Chad

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 […]

Morocco, EU ink higher education support program deal

Morocco and the European Union (EU) signed, in Rabat on Wednesday, a 490-million-dirham program to support higher education, research, innovation, and mobility. The program, which marks a notable step in the EU’s educational outreach, supports Morocco’s National Plan for Accelerating the Transformation of the Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation Ecosystem (ESRI 2030 Pact), meant […]