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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 […]
Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, an Eritrean fugitive accused of being “the world’s most wanted” people smuggler has been arrested in Sudan in coordination with United Arab Emirates authorities, Interpol announced. The Eritrean national, on Interpol’s radar since 2019, has been accused of being a smuggling kingpin, running a camp in Libya where hundreds of East African […]
France and Germany are sending next week their Foreign Ministers to Ethiopia to consolidate the peace agreement signed early November between Addis Abba and Tigrayan rebels. The announcement was made by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna Thursday. “I will be going next week with my colleague and friend Annalena Baerbock to Africa, to Ethiopia,” Colonna […]
A court in Tunisia has condemned former Environment minister Mustapha Aroui to three years in prison for involvement in the illegal import of household waste from Italy in 2020. The ruling was issued by Tunis Court of Instance. Aroui has been in prison since December 2020, only six months into the job. The case raised […]
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, reiterated, Thursday, January 5, from Rabat, the position of the EU on the issue of the Sahara, saying the Union acknowledges and values the “serious and credible efforts” made by Morocco to find a solution to this regional dispute. “We […]
Morocco-EU: Shared Desire to Deepen Dialogue, Cooperation Morocco and the European Union (EU) expressed, Thursday in Rabat, their shared desire to deepen dialogue and cooperation, within the framework of the strategic partnership established between the two parties, to which King Mohammed VI attaches particular importance. This willingness was expressed during talks held in Rabat this […]
Desalination is the way forward for some of Morocco’s water stressed regions such as Agadir which faced the specter of thirst after its dams run out and its ground water depleted due to shortage of rainfall and unsustainable agriculture. The completion of a desalination plant in Agadir came at about time when the city was […]
Morocco’s textile industry has outperformed pre-pandemic levels hitting 3.26 billion dollars in exports up to November this year according to foreign exchange data, but professionals warn of the heavy dependence of Moroccan textile sector on imported material. For decades, Morocco is in the top 10 list of suppliers of the European market and takes the […]
US plane maker Boeing will manufacture 12 CH-47F Chinooks for Egypt as the Arab country moves to modernize its military helicopter fleet. The US Army has awarded Boeing a $426 million contract for the aircraft. The contract comes more than seven months after the US State Department approved the foreign military sale on May 26 […]
The Spanish Customs and Civil Guard announced that they dismantled an organization that had sent more than 5,000 tons of hazardous electronic waste from the Canary Islands to several African countries including Ghana and Mauritania, Africa News reports. The “criminal organization had, during the last two years, managed to send from the island of Gran […]