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Gulf of Guinea nations have banded together earlier this year to crack down on illegal fishing, which environmental groups blame on Chinese boats that are decimating West Africa’s fish stocks and fishing communities along the coastline. Chinese boats are decimating West Africa’s fish stocks and fishing communities in the Gulf of Guinea, say environmental groups. […]
With the annual US-Africa Leaders Summit kicking off in Washington, D.C., this Tuesday Dec.13, the Biden administration will try to offer its African partners a better alternative to the economic competition from China on the continent. Deputy Commerce Secretary Don Graves acknowledged that the United States has fallen behind as China has surged past American […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing additional loan financing of €100 million to Société Nador West Med (NWM) for the construction of the Nador West Med port in the Oriental Region of Morocco. The loan is a new, second tranche under a €200 million EBRD loan agreement signed in 2015, announced […]
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed Ben Salman Ben Abdelaziz Al-Saud, has joined the Heads of State who called King Mohammed VI to congratulate him on the occasion of Morocco’s qualification to the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup Qatar-2022. In a phone call, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia expressed to the Sovereign his […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has proposed plans to build a new standard gauge railway (SGR) linking Kampala, the capital city, with the Kenyan border, reports say. “We’re going to build a brand-new SGR line from Kampala to Kasese. Later on, we will extend it from Kampala to the border of Kenya and then to South […]
Police in Nigeria have killed three gunmen while repelling an attack on an office of the Electoral Commission (INEC) in the south-eastern region of the populated African country which is heading to presidential elections early next year. The attackers tried to storm the main INEC office in Owerri, capital of Imo State, police said, on […]
Egypt and Zambia are poised to bolster their cooperation in several telecommunications and information technology fields under a MoU signed by Egyptian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology and the zambian Ministry of Technology and Science. Egypt and Zambia will cooperate in the fields of digital transformation, postal services, the building of institutional competencies, skill […]
While some of the ports, bridges and other coastal projects constructed as part of Beijing’s so-called Maritime Silk Road help developing economies increase their capacity for trade, there are environmental downsides to China’s coastal infrastructure, according to a new academic study that has just been published in the journal One Earth. The study, by researchers […]
Morocco’s influence in the continent and beyond has received a boost thanks to the well-deserved qualification of the Atlas Lions to the semi-finals, a watershed in Africa’s soccer history that triggered an outpouring of joy in Moroccan streets and beyond. The confidence of national coach Walid Regragui and players on the pitch send a message […]
Chariot’s Anchois project offshore Morocco has taken a big step forward after the UK oil and gas company and its Moroccan partner “Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) agreed on Monday on key principles for long term gas sales from the Anchois Gas Project with the Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau […]