The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an additional €150 million loan for Morocco’s Communal Equipment Fund (French acronym FEC) to enable it Finance 26 infrastructure projects focusing on water, sanitation, urban mobility, energy efficiency, and social facilities in over 30 municipalities. The AfDB has also agreed to provide FEC nearly €1 million in technical […]
The twenty-six candidates retained for Tunisia’s presidential election of September 15 start campaigning this Monday, while overseas campaigning began on Saturday. The campaign will run from September 2 to 13. The list of presidential candidates includes mainly Prime Minister Youssef Chahed, former president Moncef Marzouki, interim Speaker of Parliament, Abdel fattah Mourou, former Defense Minister […]
The Sahel state of Niger, which has been battling a bloody jihadist insurgency, said Wednesday around 75 Boko Haram combatants had been killed in the southeast and in neighboring Nigeria, reports AFP. Niger’s defense ministy said the 75 Boko Haram militants were killed in two separate operations by a regional anti-jihadist force in the country’s […]
