Islamic Development bank team in Luxembourg

UNWTO Executive Council meets in Marrakech, post Covid-19 challenges & soaring energy prices top agenda

The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) opened on Wednesday in Marrakesh a three-day meeting to discuss the post-covid 19 challenges facing tourism amid high inflation and soaring energy prices, aggravated by the Russia-Ukraine war, which triggered a global energy crisis. Over 250 representatives of UNWTO member countries, including tourism ministers, public or […]

Africa lost one of its talented children to COVID 19

Africa lost one of its talented children to COVID 19 this Tuesday morning. Manu Dibango, 86, a Cameroonian saxophonist and Afro-jazz legend is dead. He has been hospitalized in a hospital in Paris for several days after testing positive for coronavirus. The author of one of the greatest hits of world music, “Soul Makossa” (1972), […]

Four Moroccan truck drivers go missing on Burkina Faso-Niger border

Four Moroccan drivers and three trucks went missing on the border between Dori in Burkina Faso and Tera in Niger, well-informed sources said. The drivers on board the three trucks left Dori towards Tera unprotected and unescorted despite the risk of terrorist activity in the area, the sources said. On January 11, 18 Burkinabe soldiers […]