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Bill Gates who is visiting Nigeria this week has urged the government to increase funding for vital solutions, emphasizing the West African nation needs to do more than $10 per person for health care each year. The American business mogul, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is in Niger and Nigeria this week […]
On the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan chaired, on Thursday at the Royal College of Higher Military Education (CREMS) in Kenitra, the graduation ceremony of the 23rd group of the Advanced Defense Course and the 57th […]
Late on June 20, Ennahar, a mouthpiece of the military rulers in Algeria, said the country asked the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to leave the country after busting four Emirati spies working for the Mossad. The news was later dismissed as a fake by the foreign ministry and the communication minister was sacked […]
Morocco’s fertilizer manufacturer, OCP, said it plans to invest 7 billion dollars in an industrial complex that will help it produce green ammonia from hydrogen produced from renewable energies in the southern region of Tarfaya. The project- which will also include a desalination plant- is part of the already announced $13 bln-project to fully shift […]
Ways of strengthening Moroccan-Portuguese security cooperation to counter terrorism and cross-border organized crime were at center of talks held Wednesday & Thursday in Portugal between Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director-General of national police & domestic intelligence agency and top Portuguese intelligence officials. During this working visit, Hammouchi was accompanied by a large security delegation. He met with […]
The Committee to Protect Journalists joins several other international organizations in denouncing Algerian authorities for extending the prison sentence against journalist Ihsane el-Kadi, calling for his immediate release. On Sunday, June 18, an appeals court in Algiers increased from five to seven years a sentence for el-Kadi, editor-in-chief and director of local independent broadcaster Radio […]
Morocco has been elected, in the person of Abderrahman Tlemçani, to the post of member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), for the period 2024-2027, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Morocco’s election, with 153 votes out of 181 voting member states present, took place during the […]
The Egyptian legislature green-lighted Wednesday a signed agreement between the Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in which the Japanese agency will provide funds for the country’s Universal Health Insurance System (UHIS), Ahram Online reports. Egypt and JICA inked an agreement in March 2023 for the Japanese agency to provide a loan of […]
Mali’s ruling junta has asked prosecutors to probe the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSMA for “espionage” just days after the government in Bamako called on the United Nations to withdraw its peacekeeping mission from the West African country “without delay,” denouncing its “failure” to respond to security challenges. These accusations come following a UN report which […]
Tunisia’s State-run company managing railways, SNCFT, launched Wednesday an investigation into the death of two people after a train went off track near M’saken train station, north-East of the country. A passenger train bound for the coastal city of Gabes derailed early Wednesday near M’saken station in the governorate of Sousse. The accident killed two […]