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Just 10 per cent of factories in Sudan have resumed operations three years after the outbreak of war, according to Atif Abdel Qader of the Sudanese Industrial Chambers Union. He warned on Sunday, April 26, that banking bottlenecks, customs barriers and shortages of raw materials continue to hinder recovery. Abdel Qader said his Sudanese-Malaysian Steel […]
African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye has conferred lately in Rabat with senior officers of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) on cybersecurity and joint African military exercises to strengthen coordination, readiness and interoperability. They also discussed ways of strengthening African capacities against digital threats, says a statement the issued Royal […]
A Moroccan diplomatic source has strongly condemned the “terrorist and separatist” attacks that rocked on Saturday Bamako and other cities in Mali, targeting civilian and military areas. In a statement posted on the website of the Moroccan foreign ministry, the same source said Morocco follows “with great concern” these “cowardly and criminal acts” and expresses […]
Morocco and UN Tourism on Wednesday inaugurated the UN Tourism Thematic Office on Innovation for Africa in Rabat, marking the first permanent office established by the organization on the African continent, as officials pledged to scale up investment, digitalization and skills development to unlock the continent’s tourism potential. The office was officially opened by Morocco’s […]
U.S. Africa Command has deployed a new system designed to enhance personnel tracking during ongoing African Lion 2026 at Southern Zone Headquarters, April 20-May 8. Dubbed “Guardian”, the new system is a software-based, personnel-tracking tool under evaluation for the first time during this multinational exercise. It represents a forward-looking approach to how commanders visualize, manage […]
Sudan has recorded a sharp rise in mining revenues, with artisanal gold collections reaching 113 per cent of first-quarter targets, the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company reported on Thursday, April 23. Gold production reached 89 per cent of projected output, reinforcing the sector’s central role in sustaining the economy amid ongoing conflict. Artisanal mining continues to […]
Moroccan engineering firm Cegelec has secured a contract worth more than two billion dirhams to design and construct a suite of high-voltage electricity transmission and generation assets in Guinea, the company announced this week. The project, carried out through its subsidiary VINCI Energies Guinée, was launched officially on April 18 at Kamissaya in the prefecture […]
The 6th annual Ministerial Conference of the “AAA” initiative (Adaptation of African Agriculture), held on Wednesday in Meknes on the sidelines of the 18th International Agriculture Show in Morocco (SIAM), concluded with the adoption of a Declaration meant to boost climate-resilient Agriculture. Aware of the urgency, and following up on the resolutions of COP30 while […]
Sudan has announced emergency measures to address major disruptions in exports and imports, as Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim moves to stabilize an economy severely weakened by conflict since April 2023. In a statement issued on Wednesday, April 22, the Ministry of Finance said a Government task force had been directed to implement immediate solutions to […]
Mali and Niger have renewed long‑standing accusations that Algeria is exporting terrorism into the Sahel by sheltering, enabling and indirectly sustaining armed groups that carry out attacks south of its borders. Although Malian and Nigerien officials stopped short of explicitly naming Algeria this time during remarks at a regional security forum in Senegal on Monday, […]