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Morocco Helps Rwanda Set up its Pharmaceutical Plant

Cooper Pharma, a Moroccan pharmaceutical company launched works to build a $6-million plant at the Kigali Special Economic Zone. The plant, which was supported by Rwanda Development Bank, is part of the deals signed during King Mohammed VI visit to Kigali, in October 2016. The plant will locally produce drugs that include beta-lactam antibiotics in […]

DRC elections: voters pin hope for jobs and peace, as violence threatens vote

As citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prepare to head to the polls on Wednesday (20 December), Congolese authorities need to act urgently to prevent violence around the vote to stop a dangerous situation from getting even worse, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). As election-related violence across the DRC risk undermining the […]

New dawn for Ghanaian, Ivorian cocoa farmers

Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana – the world’s top two cocoa producers – have teamed up to impose a minimum floor price for Cocoa beans. The two West African countries are working together to address the unfavorable global cocoa pricing regime to reduce the vulnerability of both nations to the volatility of the markets, Ghana’s President […]