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The Australian iron-ore mining company Genmin has submitted to the Gabonese government a request for 15-year permit to commence iron ore drilling project at Baniaka field in the central African country. Joe Ariti, the Chief Executive Officer of the company met with the minister of Mining of the African country to discuss the application that […]
China’ Customs Tariff Commission announced earlier this week the removal of tariffs for taxable products from six African countries, State-run Xinhua news agency reports. The move aims to embody the spirit of China-Africa friendship and cooperation, and facilitate a high-quality China-Africa community with a shared future, the commission reportedly said. Under the measure to be […]
The European Union should work together with African countries to reform the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) subsidy rules as a way to tackle the global distortions of China’s state capitalism, the German Economic Institute (IW) argues in a new report. The research report entitled ‘Reforming WTO’s Subsidy Rules: a New Opportunity to Tackle the Global […]
Morocco has called for strengthening regional and international cooperation to counter the growing threat posed by terrorists, organized crime networks, and separatist group in Africa. Speaking during a UN Security Council debate on “Transnational Organized Crime, Growing Challenges & New Threats”, Omar Kadiri, Morocco’s Deputy permanent representative to UN, voiced concern over the expansion of […]
The two remaining members of West Africa’s G5 Sahel alliance — Chad and Mauritania — have indicated they were paving the way to dissolving the anti-jihadist grouping after the other three founding countries left, citing the failure “to achieve its objectives.” In a joint statement released on Wednesday (6 December), Chad and Mauritania said they […]
African countries must stop selling land on “depreciated” carbon credit market, and instead the continent should strive to become the global centre for high-value, high-integrity carbon credits, according to a new report from the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC). Released at COP28 by the Nigeria-based AFC, the positioning paper warns that at a critical moment in […]
The Charter of African Ulema (Muslim scholars) was officially launched during the 5th regular session of the Higher Council of the Mohammed VI Foundation for African Ulema. The event, which took place December 6-7, unfolded in the sidelines of the conference held in Fez. The Charter, launched at a ceremony held at the library of […]
Princess Lalla Hasnaa, Chair of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, took part, on Friday in Dubai, in the first annual high-level meeting of the “Greening Education Partnership” initiative, organized by UNESCO and the UAE Ministry of Education as part of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP28). In her address at […]
Emirati firms Metito Utilities and Tahliya have announced in Dubai plans to build two seawater desalination plants powered with renewable energy in the Moroccan Sahara. The announcement was made Thursday on the sidelines of COP28 currently held in the UAE. It comes after the Declaration signed by King Mohammed VI and Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed […]
President of the Libyan High Council of State, Muhammad Meftah Takala, welcomed Morocco’s position, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, regarding the Libyan crisis. Inter-Libyan dialogue rounds held in the Kingdom “have laid the foundations of some institutions and put an end to the bloody conflict between the Libyan brothers”, Takala said at a […]