Moroccan government on Monday cut its economic growth forecast for this year to less than 2 percent from 3 percent, as the North African kingdom experiences its worst drought in three decades. Morocco’s economy grew 4.7 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, up from 2.2 percent in the similar 2014 period thanks to […]
Belgian prosecutors have announced on Tuesday, June 17 their intention to prosecute 92-year-old former diplomat Etienne Davignon for alleged involvement in the 1961 assassination of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba. Davignon is the sole surviving member of a group of ten Belgians named in a 2011 lawsuit by Lumumba’s children, who accused them of complicity […]
On Wednesday, November 19 2025, Egypt has signed a nuclear fuel purchase order and a broad cooperation agreement with Russia’s State-owned Rosatom for the country’s first nuclear power facility at El-Dabaa, the Egyptian Cabinet announced. The fuel order covers the first reactor core, signalling readiness for further project development, while the cooperation agreement includes joint […]
