Finance Minister Mohammed Benchaaboun and Maghreb director at WB Jesko Hentschel

Covid-19-Morocco: Foreign residents thankful to the King for free access to vaccination

Foreign residents in Morocco are vaccinated against the COVID-19 free of charge in the various vaccination centers set up across the country. In this connection, l’Association des Français de Rabat (AFR) said in a statement that following instructions by King Mohammed VI, foreign residents in Morocco, and in particular French expatriates, received free vaccines against […]

Rwanda sets 15 July 2024 election date for presidential, legislative polls

Rwanda will hold presidential and parliamentary elections on 15 July next year, the election commission said, with incumbent President Paul Kagame due to run for a fourth term in office to extend his roughly three decades in control of the East African country. A presidential order published in the National Gazette on 11 December has […]

French development agency injects $170 million to stabilize power supply in Nigeria

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has officially launched a $170 million power transmission project. The project called the Abuja Feeding Scheme is financed by the French Development Agency (AFD) and provides for building five transmission substations over a 24-month period. The move will help Africa’s most populous nation to stabilize the quality of power […]