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Ghana: A gold board to boost earnings, struggle against smuggling

Ghana is set to establish a Gold Board to better regulate gold purchases from small-scale miners, aiming to increase national earnings and reduce smuggling, Reuters reported. The initiative, announced by the newly appointed Finance minister, Cassiel Ato Forson, is designed to help the country, Africa’s leading gold producer, optimize the benefits from its gold exports […]

Turkey: Erdogan highlights interrelation between Ankara and Kuwait City

Ahead of his two-day visit to Kuwait that will begin on Monday, President Erdogan said ties between the two countries are “strengthened by their common culture and by sharing the same religion” as he pointed out that their stability, prosperity and peace are interrelated. The Turkish president is hoping to boost commercial relations between them […]

Morocco: Human Rights Association Sues PJD lawmaker for Terrorism Apology

A Moroccan Human rights NGO, the Association for Human Rights Defense (ADDH,) has sued lawmaker Amina Maelainine from the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) for terrorism apology. The lawmaker had openly endorsed extremist comments made by member of her party’s youth league, Omar Senhaji, reports say. Omar Senhaji had raised an uproar after he […]