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After more than a two-year delay, the EU Council finally ratified (20 July) a new treaty with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries that covers a wide range of areas, from sustainable development and growth, to human rights and peace and security. Recognized as one of the EU’s oldest and broadest cooperations with other countries, the […]
British consulting firm RPS won a contract to undertake a study on the meteorological and oceanographic conditions for the Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline. The contract was awarded by Morocco’s mines and hydrocarbons agency ONHYM and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, RPS said on its website. The pipeline project is supported by the Organization of the Petroleum […]
When African leaders meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in late July for a summit, their discussions will likely be overshadowed by Russia’s pull-out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative that could badly damage Moscow’s relations with its African partners. Billed as strengthening cooperation in peace, security, and development, the Russia-Africa Summit […]
Burkina Faso is setting a new Caisse de dépôt et d’Investissement, CDI-BF, assigned several tasks including financing of State’s major projects. The decision, “Sika Finance” reports, came during a cabinet meeting last week. The CDI-BF replaces Caisse des dépôts et consignations (CDC) created in 2017 and dismantled in 2022 for lack of results. The CDI-BF […]
Nineteen candidates will run for August 26 presidential elections in Gabon, up from 27 bids received by the country’s Center of Elections (CGE). The CGE, led by Michel Stéphane Bonda, Sunday unveiled the roaster of final candidates to seek the country’s top job, “Gabon Review” reports. The Center disqualified 8 candidates after receiving 27 bids […]
Mediterranean and Middle East countries are meeting in Rome on Sunday (23 July) in an international conference organized by the Italian government to boost efforts to stem illegal migration flows. The meeting is to discuss development projects in the Southern Mediterranean and North Africa and partnerships for projects in sectors including agriculture, infrastructure and health, […]
African venture results have declined in recent quarters, echoing the trends in other startup regions around the world, but with $1.1 billion raised in the first half of 2023, Africa’s startup ecosystem shows resilience in the face of the global venture capital (VC) funding downturn. Despite VC funding slowly retreating from the African market this […]
Burkina Faso has introduced new taxes including levies on telephone services in a bid to raise funds to be used in the fight against terrorism, the West African country’s news agency (AIB) announced. Aboubakar Nacanabo, the Minister of Economy announced the taxes on telephone services, re-subscription of private cable television channels and sale of land […]
The United States will provide an additional $380 million in humanitarian assistance for Africa, top diplomat Antony Blinken announced Thursday. “With this funding, the United States has provided more than $4 billion in humanitarian assistance this fiscal year to respond to the needs of refugees, internally displaced persons, and people affected by conflict and crisis […]
Morocco has called, on Thursday in Addis Ababa, before the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) for a coherent and viable regional response to counter terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel. “A coherent and viable regional response is needed to counter terrorism and violent extremism in the Sahel. In this […]