The Finance and Economy Ministers, as well as Governors of central banks of English-speaking West African countries on Thursday criticized a move to rename the CFA franc used by former French colonies, saying the move jarred with plans to introduce a region-wide currency of the same name. In December, The Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara announced […]
The low-cost airline Ryanair launched its new air route between Madrid and Dakhla on Wednesday, enhancing thus air connectivity between Morocco and Spain. Ryanair will service two weekly flights, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, under a memorandum of understanding signed with the Moroccan National Tourist Office (ONMT). With this launch, Ryanair becomes the fourth partner of […]
Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dissolved the nation’s opposition-dominated parliament ahead of fresh elections and shortly after armed clashes in the capital Bissau that he describes as an “attempted coup d’état” and which plunged the small West African nation into yet another crisis. “The date of the next legislative elections will be set at […]
