King MohammedVI chairs meeting on renewables

South Sudan deploys 750 soldiers to eastern DRC

South Sudan announced this week it was sending 750 soldiers to join the East African Regional Force (EARF) trying to bring peace in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), despite its own struggles to restore peace back home. President Salva Kiir officially announced the deployment of the troops to join contingents from Kenya, Burundi […]

After Merkel and Rouhani, Bouteflika fails to meet with Cazeneuve

After Angela Merkel and Hassan Rouhani, the Algerian leader has failed to meet up with French Premier Bernard Cazeneuve last Thursday though the French leader was scheduled to meet up with the ailing Algerian leader glued to a wheel-chair since 2013, reports say. The media and sources close to the Algerian presidency denied that President […]

US Secretary of State Pompeo choses Morocco for his maiden visit to Africa

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected this week in Rabat on a two-day working visit to the North African country, one of the major US allies in the region. The trip will be not only Pompeo’s first travel to Morocco and to an African country, but also the first visit by an American […]