Chinese vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming arrived in the Egyptian capital Monday for an official visit seen as ground work for January visit by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The Chinese diplomat who joined Cairo via Abu Dhabi will have a four-day work with Egyptian authorities. Ming’s official visit is seen as ground clearing trip to […]
Ethiopia’s parliament has approved a new president, Taye Astike Selassie, replacing Sahle-Work Zewde, the country’s first female head of state. This change comes amid reports of growing tensions between Sahle-Work and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who holds the primary political power in Ethiopia. Sahle-Work, appointed in 2018 with Abiy’s backing, had reportedly been unhappy in […]
The United States has sealed a new bilateral Container Security Initiative arrangement with Morocco to facilitate the high volume of cargo transiting between both countries. The agreement was signed Tuesday in Rabat by Donald Conroy, CBP’s Executive Director of the Office of Field Operations International Operations and Abdellatif Amrani, General Director of the Customs and […]
