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Côte d’Ivoire has reiterated its steadfast position in favor of the Moroccan Sahara, and its unwavering support to Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its entire territory and hailed the King’s strong commitment to peace and development in Africa. The stance was renewed by Ivorian Foreign Minister Kacou Houadja Léon Adom during a news conference […]
Two mudslides in southern Ethiopia left at least 230 people dead, following heavy rain as chances thin to find survivors. Most deaths were caused by the first landslide, followed by a second that killed people who were trying to rescue survivors, local media reported. Landslides are common during Ethiopia’s rainy season, which started in July […]
The Group of Friends on Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, co-chaired by Morocco and the United States, organized, in New York, a high-level event on the opportunities offered by artificial intelligence (AI) to support sustainable development in Africa. The event, titled “AI: An exponential opportunity for sustainable development in Africa”, was held Monday at the […]
Nigerian authorities fined Meta, the mother company of Facebook, whatsApp and Instagram, 220 million dollars for breaching consumer and data protection laws as well as abusing its position as market leader. The fine was announced following a 34-month investigation by Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC). Meta is also accused of sharing Nigerians’ […]
Ugandan police forcefully detained dozens of protesters at an anti-corruption rally in the capital city of Kampala on Tuesday (23 July), as people rallied against the government’s corruption, ignoring warnings by police and President Yoweri Museveni. Organizers and participants of a planned march against corruption on Tuesday defied a ban on anti-government protests — inspired […]
Morocco has renewed its readiness to continue supporting Mano River Union’s member states and Secretariat at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels. This was voiced by a Moroccan delegation that took part on in Monrovia Monday in the high-level meeting of ministers of Foreign Affairs, Finance, and Defense of the Mano River Union (MRU), made up […]
Kuwait has decided to close its embassy to Gabon, as part of its global diplomatic downscale, Gabonese media reported. The decision was announced by Kuwaiti chargé d’affaires to Libreville during a farewell visit to Gabon’s foreign minister Michel Régis Onanga M. Ndiaye, Gabon Review reported on July 23. The media reported that, despite the closure, […]
The exclusion of the Polisario separatists from international events bringing together the African Union and international partners is irking Algeria whose foreign minister Ahmed Attaf made a desperate plea to the African Union. Speaking at an African Union meeting in Accra, Attaf deplored that keeping the Polisario separatists out of international events involving the pan-African […]
Plans for a pan-African car industry, both for production and a growing consumer market, are gradually moving beyond the talking stage and into the realms of action, with more than half of the continent’s nations likely to take part in the African-wide automotive development. After the European car industry moved much of its production into […]
For over 20 years, kidnappings for ransom have plagued the border regions where Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic meet, but the lack of an effective response from the Chadian state raises fears of a regional security crisis affecting its neighboring countries. The kidnappings have become a scourge in southwest Chad, with over 1,500 […]