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On Africa Day, Morocco makes case for continent’s integration, solidarity

Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, is committed to promoting African integration, development and cooperation as a priority of the kingdom’s foreign policy. Recalling that the future of Africa depends on effective complementarity and cooperation between its States, Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita underscored, in a speech before African ambassadors and the diplomatic corps […]

Algeria’s economy, a crisis in the making

Long ruling Bouteflika has stepped down after popular protests leaving behind him an embattled economy vulnerable to international oil prices. After years of unsustainable spending, Algeria’s foreign exchange reserve shrunk to cover only four years of imports making it difficult to sustain a generous subsidy system that has bought peace at the expense of financial […]

Nigeria sends peacekeepers to Gambia

Nigeria said it will deploy 197 peacekeepers to Gambia to back the ECOWAS’s peace and stability mandate. Troops from ECOWAS entered The Gambia in January 2017 following long-time Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s refusal to step down after losing the 2016 presidential election to Adama Barrow. This intervention ultimately resolved the 2016-17 Gambian constitutional crisis, and […]