FILE PHOTO: John Nkengasong, Africa’s Director of the Centers for Disease Control, speaks during an interview with Reuters at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa

Phosphates: Morocco’s OCP group reports $ 1.7 billion earning in 1st Quarter 2023

Morocco’s state-owned phosphate company OCP has reported $1.78 billion in first quarter of 2023 against $2.6 billion earned in the same period last year. Yet, this year’s results show the resilience of the global leader in the fertilizer industry in challenging market conditions, says the company in a press release. Global fertilizer prices continued to […]

Equatorial Guinea confirms outbreak of deadly Marburg virus, reports 9 casualties

Equatorial Guinea has announced its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a hemorrhagic fever nearly as deadly as Ebola, the World Health Organization (WTO) confirmed 13 February. Nine people have died of Marburg virus disease in Equatorial Guinea, a small central African country of about 1.6 million. A health alert had been declared in Kie-Ntem […]

DRC’s ex-leader Kabila sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes

Former President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila, has been sentenced to death in absentia by a military court on charges of treason, war crimes, and conspiracy linked to the brutal M23 rebellion in the country’s east. The verdict, delivered Tuesday (30 September) in Kinshasa, marks a dramatic fall from grace for […]