Moroccan University Professor Grabs King Faisal Prize

Moroccan university professor Abdelali Mohamed Oudghiri received Sunday the 41st Prize of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in the Arabic Language & Literature category. Dr. Oudghiri, who shared the $200,000 award with Egyptian Prof. Mahmoud Fahmy Hegazi, won the prize for his advanced studies on Arab language and his efforts to promote this language to […]

Senegal: Three-day-national morning after deadly road accident

Senegal’s President Macky Sall has decreed a three-day- national morning starting this Monday Jan.9 following the death of 40 people in a road accident after two buses collided in the town of Kafferine, capital of the Kaffrine Region. “As result today’s serious accident in Gniby, which caused 40 deaths, I have decided to decree a […]

AfDB loans Tunisia about €82 million for wastewater re-use in agriculture, climate resilience

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a loan of €81.9 million to Tunisia to implement the Treated Wastewater Quality Improvement Project for Climate Resilience Building (PAQEE-RCC). The approval, the bank said on December 13, came at a meeting in Abidjan on 6 December. PAQEE-RCC will improve the treatment of […]