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WB backs Morocco’s digitalization & inclusive growth with $500 Mln funding

The World Bank announced on Tuesday a $500 million funding to help Morocco speed up its digital transformation and enhance its economic and social inclusion. The WB financial support will serve to improve financial inclusion and access to more competitive digital infrastructure and services for businesses and individuals. It also aims to spur private sector […]

France to keep its troops in Chad amid apparent pre-election crackdown on opposition

France has said it will keep its 1,000 troops in junta-run Chad amid waning French influence after it was ousted from several African countries over the past few years, just as apparent calm has returned to Chad’s capital N’Djamena following the assassination of an opposition leader. “Of course we will stay” in Chad, said Jean-Marie […]

France: Three Alleged IS Militant Women Arrested

French interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Thursday announced the arrest of three women allegedly connected to a car found with six gas canisters and suspected to plot a terror attack against a train station. “Those radicalized young women, aged 19, 23 and 39, were apparently preparing some new violent and more importantly eminent actions,” Cazeneuve said. […]