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Afreximbank grants Tunisia $700m loan

Tunisia has received $700 million in credit facility from African Export–Import Bank known as Afreximbank.   President Kais Saied, according to a statement by the state-run television, approved the credit line requested by the Central Bank of Tunis.   The statement neither provided details on the period of the loan nor the interest rate.   […]

Mali: UN Security Council expressed satisfaction over new transitional authorities establishment

Second UN speech in New York about Mali since the August 18 coup d’état. While the Security Council had been quite aloof the first time, aligned with ECOWAS’s demands, it was unanimously more encouraging this time. In its presidential statement, a statement of the utmost importance by UN standards, the Security Council first of all […]

Blinken stresses partnership with Africa as China looms large over US-Africa Leaders summit

With the annual US-Africa Leaders Summit kicking off in Washington, D.C., this Tuesday Dec.13, the Biden administration will try to offer its African partners a better alternative to the economic competition from China on the continent. Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves acknowledged that the United States has fallen behind as China has surged past American […]