2022 FRUIT LOGISTICA april 5-7

Appointment in Senior Positions Should be Merit-based, King Tells Interior Minister

King Mohammed VI instructed the Interior Minister to ensure that appointments in senior positions should be merit-based in order to boost efficiency and rationalize human resources. The King reiterated that the constitutional principles of equal opportunities and accountability should be upheld. In a message in February to participants in the National Forum on the Senior […]

Algerian Civil War novel earns Kamal Daoud France’s top literary prize

The Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize, went this year to French-Algerian writer, Kamal Daoud, for his novel “Houris,” set during Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s. The novel has stirred the anger of the military regime in Algiers, whose leaders have had a role in the civil war that opposed the government to […]

Dangote retains title of ‘Africa’s Richest Man’

Nigerian business mogul Alhaji Aliko Dangote has maintained his spot as Africa’s richest man according to Forbes Magazine. Dangote is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 100th-richest person in the world and the richest in Africa. The Nigerian cement guru was also peaked on the list as 66th most powerful man in the world in […]