Senegal: New road accident kills 22 people

A road accident killed Monday 22 people in the northern province of Louga in another tragedy, the second this month after the accident that killed at least 40 people more than a week ago. A goods truck and a passenger bus collided at the entrance to Ngeun Sarr, a town in the Louga province. President […]

No laureate for Mo Ibrahim Prize for second year in a row

The Mo Ibrahim foundation announced Tuesday it will not award the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership this year for lack of qualified candidate, making it the second year in a row that no laureate won the prestigious prize created by the British-Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim. The decision came following a meeting of […]

Morocco, US celebrate stronger ties during landmark Sahara visit

US ambassador to Rabat David Fischer and US Assistant Secretary of State David Schenker will go down in history as the first US officials to visit the Moroccan southern provinces in implementation of the landmark proclamation of President Trump. “Last month, president Trump acknowledged the inevitable and stated the obvious: The Sahara is Moroccan and […]