CAF President Ahmad Ahmad

Thales Opens Metal 3D Printing Plant in Casablanca worth €20 mln

Thales, French aerospace industry leader, has opened a new industrial competence center in Casablanca, with capabilities spanning all aspects of 3D metal printing. Spanning over a surface area of 1000 square meters, this plant was achieved for a total cost estimated at €20 million and equipped with cutting-edge technologies to produce satellites parts, said Thales, […]

Rush for lithium in Africa reveals dark side of green energy, as it fails citizens, fuels corruption

As China has come to dominate global supply chains for critical raw materials (CRM) over the last two decades, the European Union and the United States have played a catch-up in race for the control of the CRM supplies — with African countries being “caught in the cross-fire”. Faced with China’s lithium mining head-start, the […]

Rwanda’s fugitive ex-police chief arrested in South Africa over 1994 genocide

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 […]