As Akinwumi Adesina prepares to step down after a transformative decade as President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), five candidates from across the continent are competing to succeed him in an election set for 29 May in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Five contenders — Swazi Tshabalala (South Africa), Amadou Hott (Senegal), Samuel Munzele Maimbo (Zambia), […]
Tunisia’s constitutional assembly voted earlier this week to enshrine gender equality in its draft constitution, upholding the country’s status as having one of the Arab world’s most progressive laws on women’s right. The text enshrining the equality between men and women was approved by a large majority of 159 lawmakers out of the 169 who […]
Morocco and the Chinese-European Gotion High-Tech Group, a leader in the field of electric vehicles, signed, on Thursday in Rabat, a strategic investment agreement worth 12.8 billion dirhams on the setting up of a comprehensive industrial ecosystem for the manufacturing of electric batteries in Kenitra. The investment agreement, signed at a ceremony chaired by Head […]
