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FIFA women’s rankings: Atlas Lionesses climb 14 spots

Morocco’s women football team jumped from the 72nd to the 58th place in latest FIFA rankings. The Atlas Lionesses earned their new standing after making history in their first World Cup appearance. At the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup finals hosted by Australia & New Zealand, the Atlas Lionesses, who lost their opener against Germany […]

US military games in Sahel bring together Morocco, Algeria

The Moroccan and Algerian armies will both take part at the US-led Flintlock 2019 military games in Burkina Faso and Mauritania from February 18 to March 1, 2019. The two North African rivals have closed borders since 1994 with Algeria backing a separatist front that waged a war against Morocco until 1991. More than 2,000 […]

Africa’s food security: Nigeria, Egypt impacted by rising agri-commodities, fertilizer prices

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and Moscow’s withdrawal in July from the Black Sea Grain Initiative has driven up global food and commodity prices, severely affecting farming sectors in countries all across Africa. Russia’s withdrawal from a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey that allowed the safe passage of Ukrainian grain through the […]