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President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema has sent a written message to King Mohammed VI. The message was handed over to Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita by Zambia’s peer Mulambo Haimbe during a meeting held Friday in Laayoune on the sidelines of the 1st session of Moroccan-Zambian cooperation commission. Zambia’s top diplomat has reiterated on this […]
President of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, praised on December 12, 2024, a communiqué signed the previous day by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali. The agreement, facilitated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, represents a crucial step toward resolving longstanding tensions between the two East African […]
The Atlantic gas pipeline that will connect Morocco to Nigeria has a potential to boost economic integration across 13 African states, boost energy supply in West Africa and power the region’s economies, head of Morocco’s mines and hydrocarbons agency ONHYM Amina Benkhadra said. The pipeline, to be achieved at an estimated cost of $26 billion, […]
Niger’s military authorities suspended British broadcaster the BBC for three months accusing it of spreading false news and undermining troops’ morale. The decision came after the BBC broadcasted in local Hausa language that an attack killed more than 90 Nigerien soldiers and 40 civilians in two Niger villages near the border with Burkina Faso. Niamey […]
Retired military officers from Europe are protecting the highly-prized resource-rich North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) from falling to Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, according to a recent report by the Deutsche Welle (DW). Some of them pointed out, in an interview, that while the job is well paid, they must often deal […]
Sudan has topped a watchlist of ‘biggest humanitarian crises’, International Rescue Committee (IRC) has said, just as at least 175 people have been reported dead and dozens injured following a series of airstrikes that shook the country’s capital in the past few days. The war-torn African country has become the “biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded” […]
The power plant “His Majesty King Mohammed VI,” offered by Morocco to Niger upon the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, was inaugurated this Thursday Dec.12, in Niamey. The inauguration ceremony was organized under the high patronage of Brigadier General Abdourrahmane Tiani, President of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP), and […]
A new commercial maritime route, operated by Atlas Marine Group, will connect Morocco’s Agadir to Senegal’s Dakar. The new maritime link is meant to optimize freight transport and meet the logistical challenges related to overland routes. The new route will facilitate the flow of trade between Morocco and West African countries by reducing transport costs […]
Ethiopia and Somalia reached an agreement Wednesday (11 December) to ease diplomatic tensions and begin “technical talks” by February to try to resolve a dispute over a controversial maritime access signed by Ethiopia with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement following talks in Turkey. This announcement came following a third round of […]
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier met with his Nigerian counterpart Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja, the capital of Africa’s most populous country, on Wednesday, December 11, where he is on a two-day visit. Talks discussed partnership between the two countries, with focus on energy cooperation. “We have with Nigeria one of the longest energy partnerships that […]