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Morocco’s Princess Lalla Hasnaa, President of Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection & Patron of UN Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development Alliance, has voiced the Kingdom’s steadfast commitment to strengthen cooperation ties with Africa in accordance with the far-sighted policy spearheaded by King Mohammed VI. In an address made Wednesday in Monaco to […]
https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/AfCFTA.jpg The African Development Bank has granted Madagascar $1.5 million in view of helping the African country work on its adherence to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), local media “Madagascar Tribune” reported. The agreement signed between the Abidjan-based continental bank and the ministry of Finance and Economy will reduce tariffs between the zone’s […]
The transitional President of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traore, announced Tuesday, he was awarded the BRICS Medal for his determination and courage in the interest of the West African country’s sovereignty. The award was presented by Larissa Zelentsova, the President of the International Alliance of BRICS Strategic Projects. The Russian BRICS boss, who was in Ouagadougou […]
U.S. billionaire and politician Michael Bloomberg has expressed his gratitude to King Mohammed VI for hosting and supporting the first Bloomberg New Economy Gateway Africa conference which opened Tuesday in Marrakesh to discuss the continent’s infrastructure potential, clean energy, and healthcare challenges. “Welcome to Marrakesh and to our first Bloomberg New Economy Gateway Africa,” said […]
Somali security forces have brought an end to a six-hour siege of a beachside hotel in the capital, Mogadishu, during which at least six civilians were killed and 10 wounded. Responsibility for the Friday evening’s attack on the popular, upmarket Pearl Restaurant was claimed by the armed group al-Shabab, the Somali Police Force said on […]
As the latest in a series of ceasefire agreements ended in Sudan at 6am on Sunday (11 June), only minutes later gunfire and shelling resumed again in the capital Khartoum. The 24-hour ceasefire agreement had given civilians rare respite from nearly two months of war, enabling them to venture outside and stock up on essential […]
The Special Representative of the Secretary-General in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Head of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the country (MONUSCO), Bintou Keita, has condemned the killing of at least 45 people in the refugee camp of Lala, in Ituri province of central African country by armed militia men […]
Jean Ping, leader of the opposition in Gabon and former presidential candidate, has arrived in Paris – France – his first foreign trip since 2018 after authorities banned him from travelling and seized his passport. “I’m planning to spend a few days here,” he wrote on his Facebook page as he arrived Monday in the […]
The Algeria military junta and its polisario separatist puppet have suffered another humiliating setback after the African football governing body (CAF) rejected the membership of the puppet entity, which is armed, funded and sheltered by the Algerian regime. This new diplomatic setback was reported Monday by Africa Intelligence magazine. According to the regulations of the […]
Rwanda is the house of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) after the Eastern African country signed Saturday an agreement with the African Union (AU). Minata Samate Cessouma, the AU’s Commissioner for health, humanitarian affairs and social development, and Sabin Nsanzimana, Rwanda’s Health minister penned the deal in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. “AMA will play […]