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TICAD 9: Japan pledges $5.5B and AI training to forge new economic bridge with Africa

At the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9), Japan unveiled a sweeping initiative to deepen economic ties with Africa, committing $5.5 billion in development loans and announcing the training of 30,000 AI specialists across the continent over the next three years. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed the creation of an “Indian […]

Tunisian Ennahdha Denies its Chief Proposed Mediation between Rabat & Algiers

The Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahdha has flatly rejected reports that its leader Rached Ghannouchi had proposed his mediation in the diplomatic row opposing Morocco and Algeria, both tangled in a showdown over Algiers’s support for the Polisario separatist Front. London-based Middle East Eye (MEE) in a May 8 article, citing an anonymous Algerian diplomatic source, […]

Tunisia: Parliament Endorses Chahed’s Unity Cabinet

Nominal Prime Minister Youssef Chahed Friday won endorsement vote from the parliament as lawmakers in great number voted in favour of his unity government expected to address economic challenges faced by the North Africa Post. Out of the 217 parliament s members, 167 approved Chahed’s unity cabinet made of Islamists, leftists, unionists and independents. Tunisia, […]