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Ex-Guinea-Bissau PM Embalo Wins Presidential Election

Former Prime Minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo has won last week presidential election in Guinea-Bissau, with 54% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Wednesday. Embalo, 47, who beat another former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira in a run-off vote, will succeed incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz. The new elected leader served […]

South Sudan Reiterates Support for Morocco’s Territorial Integrity

South Sudan has reiterated its position in support of Morocco’s sovereignty over its southern provinces, the Sahara, dissipating a false hope by Algeria and its proxy the Polisario to see Africa’s youngest nation be deluded to back its separatist thesis. The South Sudanese position was expressed in a joint statement in Rabat by foreign minister […]

Morocco’s flag carrier RAM posts 16 billion dirhams in revenues in 2018

Morocco’s state-owned RAM airline said it transported 7.5 million people in 2018 generating revenues of 16 billion dirhams. CEO of the company Abdelhamid Addou told MPs that the company has an unlocked potential as it aspires to double in the upcoming decade its fleet made up currently of 61 planes. Currently RAM operates 100 air […]