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Algeria’s energy minister Mohamed Argab, faithful to his regime’s policy of manipulating public opinion by telling half-truths, said his country’s hydrocarbons exports would increase 45% year-on-year to 50 billion dollars in 2022. The Algerian minister is comparing a year in which barrel prices rose to 123 dollars per barrel with 2021 in which the average […]
The protection and promotion of human rights are ”constant and irreversible” choices for Morocco, and are reflected in the strengthening of the Kingdom’s adherence to UN human rights mechanisms, stressed Tuesday in Geneva, Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi. Abdellatif Ouahbi made the remarks in a speech in Geneva during the interactive dialogue under the 4th […]
A new multipurpose dam that will be built in Kitui and Tharaka Nithi counties in Kenya will cost about $3,5 billion following a deal signed by the country’s President William Ruto and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday (7 November). The green investment programs — in energy, agriculture and transport — will become flagship […]
Morocco and the Pentagon have agreed to continue to work together on counterterrorism, maritime security in the Mediterranean, and other pressing security issues on the African continent. The agreement was reached during the 12th U.S.-Morocco Defense Consultative Committee (DCC) held in Washington Nov.7-8 under the co-chairmanship of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin […]
An estimated 4 million people, many of them small subsistence farmers, in over a dozen countries in West and Central Africa that have seen their crops decimated by unusually heavy flooding. In northern Cameroon, for example, the latest floods have destroyed the harvest for this season, while nearly 1 million hectares of farmland across the […]
French President Emmanuel Macron will officially announce on Wednesday (9 November) the end of the anti-jihadist Operation Barkhane in the Sahel, but this will have no impact on the French military presence in the region, according to a statement from the Elysee Palace. This announcement comes a little less than three months after the withdrawal […]
Some Kenyan lawmakers are demanding to see more documents from a secret $5bn loan agreement with a Chinese bank that financed a cross-country railway, with critics of the deal blaming the government of the day for having given too much legal authority to China. The 2011 agreement was shielded from public view until Kenya’s transport […]
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) deposited $1 billion at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) at the time the Gulf country was close to a deal to acquire a government stake in some of the major companies in the North African country, Asharq Business reports, citing informed sources. The funds, the sources told the media, […]
Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba held talks Monday on the sidelines of the COP27 in Egypt, with Korea’s Special Envoy for Climate Hon Na Kyung-Won on the possibility of both countries cooperating in forest and carbon credit management, Gabo Review reports. The Gabon leader and Kyung-Won also addressed Korea’s various investment opportunities in infrastructure, among […]
The leaders of East African Community, EAC, have appointed former Kenyan leader Uhuru Kenyatta to broker political negotiations to end the security crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the army is facing some 100 armed groups. The appointment came during a high-level meeting on the sideline of ongoing COP27 in Egypt. […]