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Africa should not be an arena for international competition between world powers, China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Wednesday while inaugurating the new headquarters of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a pan-African health body. Qin is on a five-nation African tour, a week after bidding farewell to Washington, D.C., […]
The French and German foreign ministers began a two-day visit to Addis Ababa on Thursday January 12 to support the peace agreement in Tigray, more than two months after it was signed to end the two-year brutal war in this northern region of Ethiopia. France’s Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock of Germany are scheduled to […]
Fishermen in Cameroon are urging authorities to crack down on hundreds of illegal fishers and fish farmers operating in the Gulf of Guinea after the European Union banned imports of Cameroon’s seafood. There are several hundred fishers in Idenau, a coastal village near Cameroon’s western border with Nigeria, authorities in the capital, Yaoundé, say, while […]
Pope Francis expressed the deep consideration he harbors for King Mohammed VI, and hailed the distinguished relations between the Kingdom and the Holy See. On the occasion of the traditional exchange of New Year’s greetings, organized by the Pope in honor of the diplomatic corps, and during the presentation of the greetings of the Moroccan […]
If Algeria’s Chief of Staff, Army General Saïd Chengriha is not seen to be changing, he is likely to be removed and President Tebboune will not stand by Chengriha if the army turns against him, said a London-based Think-tank in its latest report on the ruling military regime in Algeria. The radical cut to the […]
MA’ADEN, a Saudi state-owned mining company headquartered in Riyadh, is planning to invest in the Egyptian mining sector, as part of strategies by the Gulf’s largest miner to invest in mining assets around world. The announcement was made by Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El-Molla told Asharq Business in an interview. Representative […]
Morocco will not be able to travel to Algeria to defend its title in the African local players championship (CHAN) after its request for a direct flight on board national carrier RAM was rejected. Morocco will not be able to defend its title because “it was not given permission for a trip departing from Rabat-Sale […]
Ties between Morocco and Spain are ushering a new era as they have become stronger than ever thanks to a clear-cut road map, said King Felipe VI of Spain. “With Morocco, we have ushered in a new era that allows us to make progress on a more solid basis,” said the Spanish king, who lauded […]
South Africa will use its chairmanship of the BRICS group of leading emerging economies — comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — to focus on advancing African interests, the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has said. South Africa has just taken over the chairmanship of the BRICS — a bloc widely seen as an […]
Djibouti has inked a preliminary technological cooperation agreement with Chinese multinational Hong Kong Aerospace Technology to build a $1bn satellite and rocket launch site which could see the launch of the first Africa-made satellite from the African continent. The deal with the Hong Kong-based company, which was signed by Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh, includes […]