The African Development Bank AfDB ranked Morocco the second largest industrial country in the African continent with a narrow margin behind South Africa. Moroccan industrial exports accounted for 21% of Africa’s manufactured exports, widening the gaps with North African peers such as Egypt and Tunisia. Morocco has developed in the previous decade the industrial acceleration […]
President Mahmoud Abbas signed on Wednesday Palestine’s official application to become party to the Rome Statute of the Hague-based International Criminal Court and other principles governing the functioning of the court. He also signed some twenty other international conventions, relating in particular to “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity” and cluster weapons. The move to […]
At the end of a nine-year term, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, hands over the reins of the international justice agency to British Karim Khan this Wednesday, June 16. The Gambian magistrate was elected to reconcile Africa with the ICC. During her tenure, Fatou Bensouda has rarely visited the sites of […]
