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KSA: Operation Restoring Hope begins after successful airstrikes  

Saudi Arabia has announced the end of Operation Decisive Storm after coalition airstrikes “successfully removed threats to Saudi Arabia’s security and that of neighboring countries” but a new one dubbed “Operation Restoring Hope” will kick-off on Wednesday, according to a statement from the defense ministry. Brigadier-General Ahmed Assiri, the coalition’s spokesperson, said Operation Decisive Storm […]

Morocco’s OCP secures a $350 million loan facility from Afreximbank

Morocco’s phosphate group, OCP, has secured a $350 million loan facility from the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) that will support the Group’s expansion plans across Africa. The Pan-African multilateral EXIM Bank announced earlier this week the signing of the 7-year $350 million term loan facility to provide financing to OCP Group. The bank, through its […]

Comoros: curfew imposed after president’s disputed re-election sparks deadly protests

An overnight curfew has been imposed in the Comoros after post-election violence against President Azali Assoumani’s disputed re-election turned deadly on Thursday (18 January), with the first gunshot victims arriving in hospital and security forces battling stone-throwing protesters in the streets of the capital. Reports of the first serious casualties emerged two days after the […]