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The Moroccan U-17 women’s football team has qualified for the final round of the African qualifiers for the 2024 World Cup, after its 4-0 victory over its Algerian counterpart on Friday in Algiers, in the second leg of the third and penultimate round of the qualifiers. In the first leg, the Moroccan team won 4-0. […]
South Sudan’s transitional government and rebel opposition groups signed a “commitment declaration” on Thursday (16 May), pledging to support efforts to end hostilities and promote inclusive growth in the conflict-torn country. The peace deal, signed during high-level mediation talks in Kenya, is widely seen as a “first milestone”, according to Kenya’s foreign office, toward reaching […]
The Financial Times described Morocco as the “big newcomer” in the list of Africa’s 125 rapidly growing companies, with 12 firms, compared to just three previously. Morocco’s Chari.com, an e-commerce company, was ranked the sixth fastly growing African company at 244%, with a total revenue of $6.4 million in 2022. Marchiche Global Solutions came 22nd […]
Benin and Niger finally appear to have resolved their trade dispute following the mediation by the Chinese government, which has led Benin to lift the blockade preventing Niger’s oil export through its territory to China. Tensions between the two West African neighbors began last year after Niger’s ruling junta ousted the country’s democratically elected president […]
Human Rights NGO Equality Now found in a new study that women’s rights in most African countries are undermined by discriminatory family laws. The study assesses family codes in 20 African countries, analyzing their compliance with the Maputo Protocol and the UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDA as […]
The International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) has given Morocco the award of “Africa’s Best Golf Tourism Destination of the Year” at an event in Malaga celebrating the country’s diversified golf resorts and courses scattered across the country. The distinction was awarded following a vote by 660 golf operators who took into account the […]
Timber smuggling, estimated to be worth $23 million a year, from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to fund the country’s Islamic-State linked militants operating in its northernmost province of Cabo Delgado, according to a new report by Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), A multi-year investigation by the NGO, which campaigns against alleged environmental crime, […]
Benin-Niger spat: China may try to mediate to access crude oil from ‘its’ pipeline Tensions between Benin and Niger have escalated since the military coup in the latter in July 2023, with the borders between both countries remaining closed and with Benin preventing Niger from using its port to export its crude oil, mostly bound […]
Nigeria’s and South Africa’s senior government officials have urged African countries to boost collaboration, rather than compete with one another, and work together to improve air connectivity, which would in turn boost tourism and economic growth. Speaking during the recent African Tourism Ministers Dialogue in South Africa’s port city of Durban, the country’s Minister of […]
Switzerland’s top criminal court on Wednesday (15 May) fund a former Gambian interior minister guilty of crimes against humanity over his role in repression committed by the West African country’s security forces under former dictator Yahya Jammeh. After four months of hearing, the Swiss court in Bellinzona sentenced Ousman Sonko, Gambia’s government minister from 2006 […]