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Burkina Faso nationalizes strategic gold assets

Burkina Faso’s military-led government has completed the nationalization of five gold mining assets, marking a significant pivot in its economic strategy aimed at asserting greater control over the country’s mineral wealth, international media reported. The move, finalized through a government decree earlier this month, transfers ownership of two producing gold mines and three exploration permits […]

Morocco: Yasmina Filali Wins Schwab Foundation’s 2016 Social Entrepreneurs Award

Yasmina Filali Head of la Fondation Orient Occident was announced Thursday winner of Swiss-based Schwab Foundation’s 2016 Social Entrepreneur Award for her excellent action in “providing job training to underprivileged Moroccans, sub-Saharan migrants and refugees.” Yasmina Filali features among 11 other laureates crowned by a high profile jury committee chaired by Bangladeshi Mohammad Yunus of […]

Polisario on the footsteps of ISIS terrorism tactics – Italian magazine

After its humiliating retreat from the Guerguarat passage on Morocco’s borders with Mauritania, the Polisario separatist movement threatened to bring the war into Moroccan lands by inciting its “dormant cells” to carry out attacks using the same language as terrorist groups like ISIS, Italian magazine Insideover said. The Polisario has blocked the vital border crossing […]