Summit of two Mediterranean shores

France’s Persistent Role in Africa: The Other ‘Indispensable Nation’?

While recently attending a conference in Benin, the crisis in Mali still loomed large. The conflict in Mali had threatened to unravel the entire security situation in the Sahel and Western African nations spent much of the last year bickering whether a military intervention to save Bamako from approaching Islamist militias was feasible. In the […]

Nigeria election: leading presidential candidate Peter Obi still faces many challenges

With elections in Nigeria are just days away, the country’s politics might be on the verge of total upheaval with Peter Obi, a wealthy businessman, leading most election polls and threatening to reshape the established political order. The more established candidates Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives […]

Morocco: Construction works of a new 1,000-bed capacity hospital launched by King Mohammed VI

King Mohammed VI on Thursday launched, in Rabat, the construction works of the new Ibn Sina University Hospital Center, a futuristic project that will strengthen the Kingdom’s health offer with an over 1,000-bed capacity. This socially impacting project, requiring an investment of more than 6 billion dirhams, is part of a global vision to strengthen […]