Bill Gates urges Nigeria’s leaders to do more to help ordinary people amid economic reforms

Bill Gates who is visiting Nigeria this week has urged the government to increase funding for vital solutions, emphasizing the West African nation needs to do more than $10 per person for health care each year. The American business mogul, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is in Niger and Nigeria this week […]

Morocco’s King vows to diversify, strengthen promising strategic partnership with Senegal

King Mohammed VI has vowed to diversify and strengthen the promising strategic partnership existing between Morocco and Senegal. This came in a message of congratulations the sovereign addressed to Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his election as President of Senegal. “The Senegalese people have entrusted you with the responsibility of presiding over the destiny of your […]

Souad Mekhennet: a talented new columnist for Newsweek

Souad Mekhennet. The name sounds alien for English-speaking readers but not like the many foreign names that pop up if you Google USA-based journalists. It does not sound Irish, Russian, Polish, Korean nor Japanese. The surname is very familiar in the Arab world and the name is easily pronounced in the Middle East. The name […]