After nearly five years in detention in South Africa, former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was finally extradited to the US on Wednesday (12 July) where he was arraigned in a court in New York on Thursday (13 July) to face a fraud and corruption trial over a $2 billion scandal involving fraudulent government loans. […]
Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev is paying a visit to Morocco this October 10-11 to discuss with Moroccan officials the means to boost bilateral cooperation in fields as various as energy, industry, agriculture, tourism and culture. The Russian government said in a statement that the visit will feature talks between Medvedev and King Mohammed VI […]
An ECOWAS summit opened on Sunday (7 July), a day after the military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a confederation treaty in the latest show of their shift away from traditional regional and Western allies. During a summit in the Niger’s capital of Niamey on Saturday (6 July), the three junta leaders […]
