RNI leader Aziz akhannouch

Burkina Faso: Moroccan Addoha Group Launches Construction of New Cement Plant

Morocco’s Addoha group has launched, through its subsidiary CIMAF, the construction of a new cement plant with an output capacity of 700,000 tons per year. The plant, located in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second the city of the West African country, will cost about €25 million and will be completed in 18 months. The new plant will […]

Ex-Mauritanian leader summoned by police for hearing

Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz showed up Monday before the police for hearing as part of investigations into corruption and public funds embezzlement allegations leveled against him and his entourage during his 11 years at the head of the North African country, Le360.ma reports. The Mauritanian police in charge of economic affairs showed up […]

Gabon: A woman appointed Prime Minister, a première

After 17 months at the head of the Ministry of National Defense, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda had been named Prime Minister, in replacement of Julien Nkoghe Bekale who spent a year and a half in the position. This is the first time ever since its independence 60 years ago that Gabon is having a woman […]