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France’s development agency, AFD, and Niger have inked a financing agreement for two projects worth 22 million euros in the African country. The first project focusing on household food security, will benefit from a 10 million euros subsidy to support the most vulnerable households by improving their food security. Local NGO Karkara and the national […]
Senegal’s President Macky Sall launched Wednesday a national dialogue initiative supposed to appease the political tension in the country, but rejected by a chunk of the opposition, including main rival Ousmane Sonko. “There can be no democracy without freedom, just as there can be no freedom without responsibility. Every piece of physical violence, every piece […]
The World Bank announced Wednesday the resumption of its partnership with Tunisia, two months after suspending cooperation with the North African country following President Kais Saied’s remarks on Sub-Saharan African migrants deemed racist. Tunisia and the Washington-based institution prior March were in talks for a $500 million program encompassing direct support to the hardest-hit families […]
Benin’s Court of Economic Crimes and Terrorism Repression (CRIET) pressed Tuesday 15 years in prison sentence against a Dutch man for possession and sale of “high risk” drug, reports say. The court also fined the man whose identity has not been revealed XOF10 million ($16,000). Per the verdict, the man has 15 days to appeal […]
A Court in Tunisia ordered the arrest of police officer found in possession of 396 tablets of ecstasy, on his way to capital Tunis from Kasserine governorate, Tunisie Numerique reports. The court of First Instance of the governorate also ordered the arrest of another individual and instructed the release of three other people initially apprehended […]
The junta in power in Guinea has proposed the limitation of political parties to three as part of its proposals for a new Constitution. Brigadier-general David Haba, Chief of staff of the ministry of Defense unveiled the proposals to the national Councilors in charge of collecting recommendations for a new Constitution in the west african […]
Faustin-Archange Touadéra, President the Central African Republic (CAR) announced Tuesday a referendum for a new Constitution. “I have therefore decided, after consultation with the President of the Constitutional Court and the President of the National Assembly, in accordance with Article 90 of the Constitution of March 30, 2016 and Article 2 of the Emergency Act […]
King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Tuesday in the town of Tamesna, the Cité des Métiers et des Compétences (CMC/City of Trades and Skills) for the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region, a new-generation vocational training facility dedicated to excellence and innovation. The Rabat-Salé-Kénitra CMC is part of an overall program to build 12 CMCs in different regions of the […]
The Polisario and its mentor Algeria have suffered a new setback in their new strategy to hassle Morocco economically through challenges filed by European proxy NGOs, with a painful blow by the UK’s justice system rejecting a challenge to a trade deal with Morocco covering the Sahara. The new resounding failure adds to past desperate […]
The Egyptian Armed Forces received Monday a MEKO A-200 frigate, a second frigate built by Germany, several months after taking delivery of the first out of 4 ordered. The military vessel dubbed Al-Qahhar by the Egyptian Navy was built by German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) at SBN Shipyard. Commander of the Egyptian Navy Ashraf […]