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Morocco has been elected to the presidency of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) for the period 2021-2024, the Ministry of Economy, Finance and Administration Reform and the World Bank Group announced. “As part of the governance reform of the Center for Mediterranean Integration (CMI) now providing for a rotating presidency among the member countries […]
Tunisian President Kais Saied announced Monday the elaboration of a new electoral Code as part of new changes he wants to induce after seizing all powers on July 25, making it clear that the exceptional measures decreed on July 25 will continue. At an “unannounced” visit to the governorate of Sidi Bouzid, President Kais Saied […]
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Tuesday that a coup attempt, organized by elements inside and outside the military establishment, has been thwarted, leading to the first arrests of those involved in such a plot. The failed attempt was preceded by attempts to sow insecurity, especially in the east of Sudan, but had failed […]
The U.S. government announced Monday that money from the liquidation of allegedly ill-gotten gains confiscated from Equatorial Guinea’s vice president, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, will be used to buy medicine and coronavirus vaccines for the people of Equatorial Guinea. Mr. Obiang Mangue, 53, is the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has been […]
At least three people were killed and dozens wounded Monday night in a series of explosions in Burundi’s economic capital, Bujumbura, the latest in a string of attacks in the country, police and media said. The explosions come a day after a deadly grenade explosion in a bar in the Burundian capital, Gitega, and mortar […]
Morocco’s OCP Group and the Ethiopian government have signed an agreement to develop a fertilizer plant in gas-rich Dire Dawa in northern Ethiopia, for a total investment of up to $3.7 billion dollars, as announced by the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance. A visiting Ethiopian delegation led by the country’s Minister of Finance, Ato Ahmed Shide, […]
The Sahrawi human rights defender and former prisoner in the jails of the polisario, Fadel Breika, denounced Monday in Geneva the climate of terror, intimidation and repression prevailing in the polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, urging the international community to put pressure on Algeria to end the state of lawlessness in these camps. Speaking with the Working […]
Morocco has joined the Macolin Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions, a multilateral treaty seeking to prevent, detect, and punish match-fixing in sports. Morocco’s ambassador to France Chakib Benmoussa signed on Monday this convention in Strasbourg, at the Headquarters of the Council of Europe, with Deputy Secretary General of the European Council Bjorn Berge. […]
Acquiring advanced combat drones has featured as a main component of Morocco’s army modernization efforts with the receipt of 12 Turkish Bayraktar drones and news of an upcoming launch of the manufacturing of Israeli Kamikaze drones in the North African Kingdom. The first batch from Turkey, which is part of an order of 13 Bayraktar […]
The Malian National Transitional Council (NTC) adopted two amnesty bills, benefiting the junta, for the coups that led to the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in August 2020 and the ouster of transitional president Bah Ndaw in May 2021. “No legal action can be taken against the perpetrators. We cannot prosecute officials for offenses […]