President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) Fouzi Lekjaa was appointed 1st Vice-President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Saturday. Lekjaa’s selection was decided at the first meeting of the CAF Executive Committee, which took place in the Ghanaian capital, Accra. During the meeting, Ghana’s Kurt Oraku was appointed 2nd CAF Vice-President, […]
Nigerian army has, over the past two days, successfully rescued more than 150 “unharmed” pupils and teachers who were abducted by gunmen from a school in the country’s northeast earlier this month. The kidnapping in Kaduna state on 7 March, one of the biggest such attacks in years, has prompted a national outcry over security. […]
Mauritania and the European Union (EU) have signed the fourth implementing protocol to the EU’s Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) in a deal described by both partners as a “win-win” agreement. The implementation of the SFPA started in December 2006. After 16 months of intense negotiations, Nouakchott’s chief negotiator Cheikh Ould Baya said apart from the economic gains and […]
