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Members of the Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) are meeting in Marrakesh to discuss the industry issues, challenges and the future of travel & tourism. This year’s ABTA oversea travel convention, taking place from 10 to 12 October in Morocco’s red city, marks a return to in-person meetings after two-years of restrictions due to […]
Henri Claude Oyima, head of Gabon’s private bosses indicated Monday that the country’s struggling National Social Security Fund, CNSS, should be managed by the private sector per recommendations of Inter-African Conference on Social Security (CIPRES). “We are the ones who pay, we think that we have to manage this institution and that the State must […]
More international law experts, university professors and human rights militants continue to support, at the United Nations, Morocco’s realistic autonomy plan for the Sahara and denounce the sufferings endured by the sequestered Sahrawis in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria. Addressing the UN fourth Committee, convening in New York, French expert André Grimblatt said that […]
High transport costs across Africa continue to hinder regional integration on the continent since large-scale transport infrastructure investments require huge investments, according to a recent World Bank report titled ‘How Does Infrastructure Support International Trade?’ The World Bank report argues that global trade has contributed to economic growth and poverty reduction in the past three […]
Benin has denied the presence of French troops of Barkhane Operation fighting terrorism in the Sahel region. Wilfried Leandre Hougbedji, spokesperson for the cabinet of the President Patrice Talon, said French forces found at Kandi in the department of Alibori, are French instructors in the country to beef up the ability of Benin forces in […]
Senegal’s national carrier, Air Senegal has announcement the suspension, from October 30, of flights to Central Africa destinations due to low financial returns. “This decision is justified by the poor financial performance of this triangular route since its launch in March 2021,” the carrier said in a statement. The destinations scrapped are Cotonou (Benin), Douala […]
Miners operating in Zimbabwe will have to pay some of their royalties in refined metal rather than cash, as the country will hold reserves of gold, diamonds, platinum and lithium, says President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabwe’s president said the new policy that compels miners to pay half of their royalties in commodities and half in cash […]
At least 180 people have lost their lives in inter-communal clash in the West of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Anadolu news agency reports citing authorities. The violence according to the Congolese government occurred over two months, at Kwamouth, at heart of Mai – Ndombe province, hundreds kilometers from capital Kinshasa. “The situation has returned […]
The controversial Beijing-funded African Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia that is due to open in the next few months is just one example of China’s increasing investment in health care on the African continent since the pandemic as it builds what analysts and Beijing call a ‘Health Silk Road’. According to […]
The Spanish national police announced on Monday the arrest of two Algerian nationals in Mallorca (Balearic Islands), accused of transporting illegal migrants to the Spanish coast. The arrested persons, aged 19 and 27, are suspected of having transported, last Wednesday (October 5), 15 people, including minors, from the Algerian coasts to Spain in inhuman conditions, […]