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Towards a Shakeup of Regional Investment Centers

Morocco’s regional investment centers that are supposed to assist investors, both national and foreign, and to facilitate the paperwork for the setting up of projects will be restructured after an audit revealed many dysfunctions preventing these centers from fulfilling their mission properly. The results of the audit were presented Monday to King Mohammed VI by […]

Benin gets €80 million-loan from AfDB to upgrade Cotonou Port

Benin has secured an 80 million euros loan facility from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to improve and expand Cotonou harbor, one of the main maritime access points for landlocked countries in West Africa. The loan is split into two: €55 million from the African Development Bank and €25 million from Africa Growing Together Fund, […]

Sudan peace talks on hold amid escalating conflict, as Egypt, Türkiye issue travel advisories

The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has visited Ethiopia and Uganda on his first trip abroad since war broke out with Sudan’s army in April, as regional diplomats scramble to broker a face-to-face meeting between both warring sides. The RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo Thursday (28 December) met with Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime […]