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Tanzania inks port management deal with UAE DP World, opposition criticizes the decision

Tanzania’s government has signed a 30-year port management agreement with Dubai-based logistics firm DP World, hoping the deal would boost exchanges with landlocked neighboring countries and reduce unloading times at the country’s largest port. The Dar es Salaam port in Tanzania will soon be modernized amid a 30-year concession agreement with the Emirati logistics giant […]

Libya’s Post-Gaddafi Transition: Facing Challenges but Avoiding ‘Arab Winter’

It has been more than a year since Muammar Gaddafi died during the Battle of Sirte, his home town, thus symbolically bringing Libya’s 42-year-long nightmare to its end. Since then, Libya has experienced a relatively speedy transition from Gaddafi’s brutal dictatorial regime to a fledgling democracy when it held, in July 2012, its first free […]

Morocco takes part in commemoration of Rwanda genocide

Head of the Moroccan government Aziz Akhannouch represented King Mohammed VI in the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide. A remembrance event was also held in the national library in Rabat where participants recalled the atrocities against civilian Tutsis. In 1994, some 800,000 Tutsis were killed by armed Hutus tearing apart the […]