Al Mada Foundation has launched Wednesday another COVID-19 solidarity operation to assist needy households during the holy month of Ramadan. This second phase of the Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity operation consists of 1,778 tons of foodstuffs and hygiene products, worth more than 22 million dirhams. It will benefit 50,000 households or approximately 250,000 people. The 50,000 […]
African economies are pivoting strategies in response to renewed U.S. tariffs, leadership transitions, and escalating regional conflicts, forcing a recalibration of trade relationships across the continent. The Trump administration’s tariff policies have particularly impacted countries that have historically benefited from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which provided preferential access to U.S. markets. Nations […]
One of the last at-large suspects of the Rwandan genocide — a former police chief, Fulgence Kayishema — has been arrested in South Africa. He has allegedly orchestrated the killing of approximately 2,000 Tutsi refugees in 1994. The 62-year-old Kayishema was indicted by a UN tribunal on Rwanda in 2001 but has been on the […]
