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China refocuses on food and agriculture in its relations with Africa

China is importing more food products such as avocados, cashews, sesame seeds and chili peppers from Africa, after President Xi Jinping promised to increase non-resource imports from Africa and agriculture is emerging as the new focus of Beijing’s engagement with the continent. In the first two months of this year, Shanghai ports handled more than […]

COM2023: Morocco calls for refocusing spending on better forms of social protection, income support

Morocco called, Monday in Addis Ababa before the 55th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM2023), for refocusing spending on better targeted forms of social protection alongside income support. The Kingdom also pleaded for adequate political and technical support to initiatives aimed at facilitating cash transfers, such as […]

Xlinks: Canadian WSP to Provide Technical Advisory Services for Purchase of HVDC Converter Stations

UK start-up Xlinks has chosen Canadian engineering consulting firm WSP to provide technical advisory services for the tendering process for four HVDC converter stations and ancillary works for the Morocco-UK Power Project. WSP will support the procurement process for converter stations in the UK and Morocco, UK grid connection works, connection to the generation assets […]