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Burundi, Belgium ink €75 million cooperation deal

Burundi and Belgium have sealed a deal worth €75 million covering five cooperation areas namely health, education, agriculture, climate change, and good governance, Cooperation ministry of the central African country said. Albert Shingiro, Burundi’s External Relations and International Cooperation Minister, signed the deal with Belgium’s ambassador Michael Wimmer. The Belgian development agency, Enable, will implement […]

Egypt: Jail sentence against Zamalek Club Chief Mortada Mansour upheld

An Egyptian court upheld a one-month jail sentence and a one-year suspended sentence against Al-Zamalek football club’s controversial president Mortada Mansour, after he was found guilty of defamation against his Al-Ahly counterpart Mahmoud El-Khateeb. The ruling came Saturday after the court had rejected two appeals filed by Mansour against the two sentences, state-run news outlet […]

Morocco’s Agricultural Research Institute Reports Wave of Innovations in 2025

Morocco’s National Institute for Agricultural Research, known as INRA, registered eight new plant varieties in 2025 and published more than 400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals, according to INRA latest annual activity report, which highlights a year of significant scientific advances. “Agricultural research appears more than ever as a strategic lever to support the […]