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African politics: the promise and peril of key elections in 2023 African politics and democracy will likely see a busy 2023 year, as many of its countries, notably Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Gabon and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will hold high-stakes elections. The February general election in Nigeria has raised a great deal […]
Burundi’s minister of Public Health Sylvie Nzeyimana has declared cholera outbreak in capital Bujumbura, after dozens of cases have been spotted late last week. Her department in a statement indicated that between December 30 and 31, a dozen suspected cholera cases were identified in several areas of the city, presenting symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. […]
The European news website InfoMigrants has just published a feature story on the hell a Guinean teenager, named Ahmed, went through when his bad luck took him to Algeria, where he could hardly find a job and where he ended up in prison before being deported manu-military to the desert near Niger’s borders. The 15-year-old […]
Taleb Ali Abdellah was appointed this Monday director of the Amazigh channels of the National Radio and TV company, the SNRT. He will replace Mamad Mohamed who is retiring this January. Mohamed Mamad put the national Amazigh television channel on the right track since it was set up twelve years ago, establishing a working method […]
King Mohammed VI of Morocco was represented at the inauguration ceremony of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, by the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch. After he attended the solemn investiture ceremony of the new Brazilian head of state and his vice-president, Geraldo Jose Rodrigues de Alckmin Filho, held on Sunday, Akhannouch was […]
President Andry Rajoelina of Madagascar announced his country is seeking an investment from Morocco in the fertilizer sector as part of its efforts to achieve farming self-sufficiency, Reuters reports. “We are seeking Moroccan fertilizers as well as investments in the fertilizers’ sector,” Rajoelina, who visited Morocco in October, told Reuters in an email. “We need […]
The United Kingdom and Mauritius have begun talks on the sovereignty of the disputed Chagos archipelago, the Mauritian prime minister announced Sunday, January1. “The latest developments on the Chagos issue are very encouraging. Negotiations between Mauritius and Britain have begun,” Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said in a New Year address. Mauritius claims the remote archipelago […]
The European Union has urged Rwanda to stop supporting the M23 rebel group, which has captured swaths of territory in the North Kivu province of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Rwanda must “stop supporting the M23 and use all means to press the M23 to comply with the decisions taken by the EAC (East […]
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) abolished a February 2022 circular requiring the use of letters of credit for imports, and allowed the use of collection documents instead, Arab Finance reports. The CBE in a late December circular scrapped the letter of credit which provides an irrevocable guarantee to the exporter that the importer’s bank […]
Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has extended from January 1st for one month the state of emergency in place since 2015 after a series of terror attacks hit the country killing dozens of people, mostly foreign tourists. The measure gives the state sweeping power to take action against anyone suspected for terrorism and break any gathering […]