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The African Development Bank has lent €100 Million to Morocco’s Communal Equipment Fund to support sustainable infrastructure projects aimed at reducing territorial and social disparities in the North African Kingdom. The loan agreement was signed Friday in Rabat by the African Development Bank (AfDB) and le Fonds d’équipement communal (FEC). The money will serve to […]
Amid growing global competition for strategic minerals, the US is relying on Africa to reduce the dominance of China over resources used for electric batteries, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said. “We don’t want to be overly reliant on any one country or any one company for global supply chains for critical minerals,” Adeyemo […]
Millions of internet users in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Benin, Ghana and Burkina Faso were frustrated after an outage that was blamed on undersea cables failures. The African subsea cable operator Seacom confirmed that services on its west African cable system were down and that customers who relied on that cable were being redirected to the […]
The successful humanitarian operation launched by King Mohammed VI to alleviate the sufferings of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Al Quds, reeling under inhuman Israeli siege, made the headlines of international media. Forty tons of foodstuffs and basic products were sent on Tuesday to Palestinians upon the instructions of King Mohammed VI, chairman […]
Several influential law-makers, experts and officials from Palestine, Europe, Africa, and the United States have lauded the successful humanitarian operation launched by King Mohammed VI, via a land route, to alleviate the sufferings of Palestinians in Gaza and Al Quds, reeling under inhuman Israeli siege. Forty tons of foodstuffs and basic products were sent Tuesday […]
India and Ethiopia are in the final stages of finalizing a defense cooperation pact, Ethiopia’s ambassador to New Delhi said. Under the agreement, to be likely signed after India’s general elections, India will offer equipment and training to Ethiopia’s army, ambassador Demeke Atnafu told Indian news outlet The Print. The deal was evoked by Indian […]
The UK government reportedly has a plan in place to be included into a new agreement with Rwanda, which provides for a payment to failed asylum seekers to return to their home countries. The UK government’s plan is understood to be a variation of an existing voluntary returns scheme, where asylum seekers, who have been […]
Despite the recent decision by the ECOWAS to lift its sanctions imposed on Niger, the stalemate between the regional bloc and the three coup-hit Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger lingers on. Observers and analysts have pondered if the relations between the three junta-ruled countries and the Economic Community of West African States […]
The expectation for an ECOWAS single currency to be launched by 2027 is no longer realistic, according to the director-general of the West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ), Olorunsola Olowofeso, who imputed the delay to the inability of all the WAMZ member states to meet all the required criteria. “The quest for a single currency by […]
Gold production in Burkina Faso dropped significantly due to a surge in Jihadist activity in a country where military rulers have been in power since September 2022. As Jihadist groups continue to wreak havoc in the wider Sahel, Burkina Faso suffered the most, accounting for almost a quarter of people killed in terrorist attacks globally […]