King Mohammed VI Rawanda Paul Kagame

China woos Ethiopia, pledging food, trade, investments for Horn of Africa

While China’s global competition has been a well-known fact, Beijing now signals an expansion of its ambitions in the Horn of Africa, as evidenced by Ethiopia’s recent acknowledgement that China has become the East African nation’s leading source of foreign direct investment, largest trading partner, and development financier. China plans to send more emergency food […]

Mali: new mining law aims to boost state’s stake in gold mining projects to 35%

Mali’s military-led government is in talks with gold miners, aiming to negotiate an increase in its mining stake from 20% to 35%, to ensure a fair share of profits. The government is discussing with gold miners the proposed changes to its mining law that could increase state and private Malian interests in new projects by […]

Morocco Gets $450 Mln World Bank Loan for Modernization of Public Sector

The World Bank approved on Wednesday a $450 million loan for Morocco which is deploying sustained efforts to modernize its public sector through the implementation of an ambitious governance reform program . Over the past few years, Morocco has embarked on long-term and wide-ranging reforms to improve the overall performance of the public sector and […]