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Princess Lalla Asmaa chairs MoU signing ceremony between Lalla Asmaa Foundation & Gallaudet University in Washington

Princess Lalla Asmaa, President of the Lalla Asmaa Foundation, on Friday visited Washington’s Gallaudet University, the only institution worldwide solely dedicated to the education of the deaf and hard of hearing from early childhood up to PhD level. The visit highlighted by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Gallaudet University and the Lalla […]

IFC accords $150m loan to Olam to boost palm oil production in Gabon

The World Bank’s private sector financing arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC), has provided a credit package of $150 to Olam Palm Gabon, the subsidiary of Singapore-based Olam International, to boost the company’s production of palm oil in the central African country. The loan, Gabon Review reports, will be used in the construction of a biodiesel […]

DRC military court passes death sentence to 25 soldiers for ‘fleeing enemy’

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sentenced 25 soldiers to death in a one-day trial on Wednesday (3 July) after finding them guilty of fleeing the enemy, violating orders, dissipation of war munitions and theft, among other charges. The Congolese army has been fighting the Rwanda-backed M23 insurgency in the […]