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Several partners have pledged to contribute up to $23.5 billion to the Niger’s Economic and Social Development Program known as PDES 2022-2026, the office of President Mohamed Bazoum has announced on the sidelines of an investors’ roundtable held in Paris dec.5-6. “At the end of the first day, 22.3 billion euros (23.405 billion USD) of […]
Israeli NewMed Energy firm announced on Tuesday it has signed a deal with Morocco’s hydrocarbon authority and Adarco Energy for offshore natural gas exploration and production in the north African kingdom. Under the terms of the agreements, NewMed and Adarco will each hold a 37.5 pc stake in the Boujdour Atlantique exploration license, located off […]
Cooperation prospects between Morocco and Australia in renewable energy, green hydrogen and counterterrorism were at the center of talks held in Rabat by Australia’s assistant foreign Affairs minister Jim Watt with Moroccan government officials. On Tuesday, he was received by foreign minister Nasser Bourita. They discussed bilateral relations, common challenges and latest developments on the […]
Rwanda Tuesday laid into the U.S. and the international community for exacerbating the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), plagued by armed groups after US top diplomat Anthony Blinken urged Kigali to stop any supposed support for the rebels. The Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vincent Biruta, affirmed in a press release that […]
Leaders of the Western African regional grouping ECOWAS have pledged to club together $1 billion as urgent fund to address terrorism in the region. The pledge came Sunday during the 62nd summit of heads of state of the bloc in Abuja, Nigeria. A communique of the summit read Tuesday indicated that the leaders expressed their […]
Tunisian coastguards have foiled 9 clandestine migration attempts involving 306 people, in several regions of the country. Colonel Houssem Eddine Jebabli, spokesman for the Direction General of National Guard in three different statements indicated that units of the National Guard in the regions of the center and Sahel (east coast) have foiled, in the nights […]
A special task-force has proposed to delay the implementation of the East African Monetary Union (EAMU) until 2031 from initial date of 2024, saying it is too soon considering members have not attained all requirements. The proposed delay is an indictment on the members’ commitment to achieve EAMU, a key pillar of integration. The EAMU […]
The eight member countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) have not been spared by multiple crises affecting the world and its economic growth rate reached 5.7% in 2022, down 0.4% compared to 2021, the leaders of this organization meeting in Abidjan announced this week. The eight member countries of UEMOA — […]
A court during a mass trial in Koro Toro prison in Chad has handed out jail terms of between two and three years to more than 260 people out of a total of 401 arrested over anti-government protests in October, while defense lawyers have argued that the trial was “illegal”. A total of 401 people […]
King Mohammed VI has congratulated the members of the Moroccan national team for their historic qualification to the quarterfinals of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Immediately after the end of the match which opposed, on Tuesday, the Morocco soccer team to its Spanish counterpart, the sovereign spoke on the phone with the President […]