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Moroccan companies DeepEcho, Medevice and Sorbus are among the winners of grants awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support African health innovators seeking to optimize supply chains, improve access to medicines and advance towards universal health coverage. Twenty-seven other healthtech start-ups have been selected to benefit from a $7 million program (i3) […]
Congo and Russia have signed five memorandum of Understanding (MoU) including the construction of an oil-pipeline in the capital Brazzaville. The agreements were inked at the end of both countries’ joint intergovernmental commission meeting in the Congolese capital. Deals span Information and communication technologies, health, research, technological innovation, culture and sports. Congo’s Minister of International […]
The international Teaching Hospital Mohamed VI in the Moroccan city of Bouskoura, near the city of Casablanca, has carried out a mandibular surgery using 3D printed titanium prosthesis, an unprecedented surgery using such a technology. The surgery took place on September 15 and was carried out by Prof. Kounimba Coulibaly on a female patient suffering […]
Madagascar’s State Inspectorate-General (IGE) Tuesday denounced the embezzlement of around 12.4 million euros (MAG51 billion) of state funds in the public Administration over a period of eight months. Daniel Randrianarivony, the Chief of the IGE made the announcement during the presentation of his organization’s report that audited the public administration from January to August this […]
Nigeriens authorities have suspended transit of oil products to neighboring Mali as diplomatic relations between two countries further go downward. “I have the honor to inform you of the suspension of transit authorizations for petroleum products in Mali not intended for the MINUSMA granted to users,” a circular signed by the Director General of Customs […]
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin has for the first time acknowledged he is “proud” of founding Wagner Group, a private military company, in 2014, staffed by veterans of the country’s armed forces. After previously denying ownership and suing journalists for reporting it, this was Prigozhin’s first public confirmation that he was the man behind the mercenary […]
East African economies will decline this year driven due to political instability, unreliable rainfall and reducing agricultural yields, says the latest Macroeconomic Outlook Report for East Africa published by Deloitte, the world’s largest consulting firm. The report that covered Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda shows that the region’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been […]
At least 11 soldiers have been killed and 50 civilians were missing in Burkina Faso after armed fighters attacked a 150-vehicle military-escorted convoy taking supplies to a northern town, the country’s government has said, condemning the “barbaric, cowardly” attack. The government said the assault took place on Monday (26 September) in Soum province, where armed […]
The 15th outbreak of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) comes to an end as neighboring Uganda races to tackle a virus outbreak of its own, the World Health Organization (WTO) has said. A week after health officials in Uganda declared an outbreak of Ebola, the highly contagious strain of the deadly […]
The European Union wants to strengthen its “unique and reliable” partnership with Morocco at all levels, said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. “We want to strengthen the unique and reliable EU-Morocco partnership across the board: Enhanced trade and more cooperation on digital and energy, for example,” Ms. Von der Leyen […]