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UNDP loans Cameroon $21m to strengthen SMEs’ resilience

The UNDP and Cameroon have inked a loan deal of $21 million earmarked to strengthen the resilience of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of the central African country in addressing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, Journal du Cameroun reports. The agreement signed between UNDP Chief in Cameroon Jean-Luc Stalon and Alamine Ousmane Mey, Minister of […]

US military games in Sahel bring together Morocco, Algeria

The Moroccan and Algerian armies will both take part at the US-led Flintlock 2019 military games in Burkina Faso and Mauritania from February 18 to March 1, 2019. The two North African rivals have closed borders since 1994 with Algeria backing a separatist front that waged a war against Morocco until 1991. More than 2,000 […]

Indignation in Morocco after Rape of Teenage Girl

Thousands have signed a petition in support of a young woman who held captive for two months and was tortured. “During her captivity, she was subjected to every torture imaginable: She was repeatedly raped by 15 men, beaten, deprived of food and basic sanitary needs, and had her body forcibly tattooed by her captors,” the […]