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Morocco’s historic performance at World soccer cup 2022 has been cheered worldwide, expect in neighboring Algeria wherein the ruling military junta banned its media from reporting news about the Atlas Lions’ stunning achievements and progress to the semifinals. The gag order showed to the world the irrational and sickening hatred of the Algerian authorities for […]
The US-Africa Leaders summit kicked off Tuesday (13 December) in Washington, D.C., with a full agenda that includes topics ranging from climate adaptation and energy transition to peace, security and governance. As President Joe Biden is hosting 49 African heads of state in the nation’s capital, some analysts see it as the United States “playing […]
Morocco took on Wednesday the rotating Presidency of the Euro-African Dialogue on Migration and Development, dubbed “Rabat Process”, for a one-year term. During a handover ceremony, held in Cadiz on the occasion of the 6th Ministerial Conference of the “Rabat Process”, the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, handed over the Presidency to the […]
An extraordinary session of South Africa’s parliament on Tuesday (13 December) voted against starting impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa over a report that says he held undeclared foreign currency at his farm in 2020. The lawmakers voted 214 to 148 against the move to impeach Ramaphosa. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, which […]
King Mohammed VI is represented at the US-Africa Leaders Summit by Head of Government Aziz Akhannouch. The Summit is hosted by President Joe Biden in Washington this December 13 to 15. The summit, which brings together representatives of some 50 countries, civil society and the private sector of the African continent, in addition to officials […]
UK-based finance institution British International Investment (BII) and the African Guarantee Fund (AGF) have signed a $75 million re-guarantee agreement for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across Africa, Zawya reports. The fund, according to BII, will provide credit guarantees to partner financial institutions for up to 75% of the risk on SME loans, thus increasing […]
A court in Uganda has charges and sent to prison a US couple for “aggravated torture” of their 10-year-old foster son, Africa News reports citing the police of the Eastern African country. The court indicted the couple Friday and ordered their detention at Luzira Prison, a high-security prison facility on the outskirts of the capital […]
Strategies are needed to avoid debt crises that developing nations are currently facing, including the urgent need to find as much as $2.5-trillion over five years to meet external debt-service costs as interest rates rise and poorer countries struggle to refinance borrowings, according to a recent study. The findings published by the Bill & Melinda […]
At the heart of the Africa’s crypto boom was FTX, an international exchange run by US crypto guru Sam Bankman-Fried, whose collapse in November has sent shockwaves across the continent, along with calls for more regulation. An unknown number of African customers held funds on the Bahamas-based platform, as did numerous African startups. On Tuesday […]
More than hundred people are feared died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) due to flooding and landslide in Kinshasa Tuesday. “The death toll exceeds 100 in 5 communes including Mont-Ngafula, Ngaliema, Kintambo, Bandalungwa and Selembao,” Gentiny Ngobila, Kinshasa Governor told reporters after a visit. About sixty people were reported dead in Mont-Ngafula, one […]