The Moroccan government needs to increase its 2024 budget by 14 billion dirhams ($1.4 billion) to meet expenditures linked to subsidizing electricity prices and wage hikes, minister delegate in charge of the budget Fouzi Lekjaa said. In a presentation at the finance committee in parliament, Lekjaa recalled that the government has approved a decree to […]
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and his Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening cooperation and coordination on security challenges in West Africa. The two leaders met at the Presidential Palace in Abidjan on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, during President Ghazouani’s 24-hour friendship and working visit to Côte d’Ivoire. Their […]
Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is an inch closer to becoming the country’s first female president after the SWAPO ruling party has selected her as the party’s vice president. More than 700 delegates descended upon the capital for the party’s congress that was scheduled for three days but was extended by a rerun for […]
