In Africa, nearly 600 million people, or 48% of the continent’s population, still lack access to electricity, with the majority living in rural areas. The continent will not fully develop if hundreds of millions of its people continue to live without electricity, Economic Commission for Africa’s Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe said Thursday. Songwe who […]
Separatist rebels in northern Mali have claimed to have taken over a camp in the strategic town of Kidal immediately after it was evacuated by the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA, a significant development in an ongoing battle for territory. The Tuareg-dominated alliance of armed groups, known as the Permanent Strategic Framework (CSP), which had agreed […]
Morocco looks to diversify the vaccines it is administering as part of a mass vaccination campaign in an international context where demand exceeds offer. Morocco has already received 8.5 million doses, including 7 million doses from AstraZeneca and the rest from Chinese Sinopharm. The country expects to obtain 1 million doses from Russia’s Sputnik, 2 […]
