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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 […]
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 […]
The United States has provided $9 million in new military aid to help Somalia’s ongoing campaign against al-Shabab militants, the US embassy in Mogadishu announced. The military equipment handed to the government includes weapons and vehicles and is destined to support the campaign by the Somali National Army to liberate communities from al-Shabab control. It’s […]
The Moroccan Association for Advanced Sciences, Innovation and Research (MASCIR) will soon put on the market the first African-manufactured kits to diagnose breast cancer and leukaemia, a move that will cut costs and waiting times for patients in Morocco and the wider African continents, wrote the UK newspaper the Guardian. “The price of the kit […]
The 46th Conference of Arab Police and Security Leaders kicked off, Monday in Abu Dhabi, with the participation of a large Moroccan delegation, led by Abdellatif Hammouchi, Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance. The event is attended in addition to Arab police bosses, representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Interpol, the […]
Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of the Foundation for the Safeguard of the Cultural Heritage of Rabat, inaugurated on Sunday the urban exhibition, dubbed “Rabat, a heritage of humanity”, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the inscription of the Moroccan capital on the UNESCO World Heritage List. This exhibition, which proposes to rediscover the registered […]
Senegal’s President Macky Sall has decreed a three-day- national morning starting this Monday Jan.9 following the death of 40 people in a road accident after two buses collided in the town of Kafferine, capital of the Kaffrine Region. “As result today’s serious accident in Gniby, which caused 40 deaths, I have decided to decree a […]
After losing the support of Madrid in their anti-Moroccan alliance, the Algerian rulers are now refocusing on Mauritania after having subjugated Tunisia’s Kais Saeid with petro-dollars sweeteners. According to Maghreb-Intelligence online magazine, the Algerian regime will intensify in 2023 its lobbying campaign in Mauritania to tighten its grip on this Maghreb country and turn it […]
The United States and Türkiye have disrupted ISIS’s ability to finance its operations by designating four individuals and two entities of an ISIS financial facilitation network. The US Department of the Treasury said its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated critical nodes of a key financial facilitation network of the so-called Islamic State of […]
France’s African soldiers, known ‘as Senegalese tirailleurs’ who fought in the world wars and the country’s colonial conflicts, have now won their final battle — the surviving fighters will be able to live out their days with their families back in Africa after a French government U-turn on their pension rights. The decision, made in […]