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Senegalese President Macky Sall Tuesday made Fatou Fall, a medical Colonel, the country’s first female army general, announced Defense Minister Sidiki Kaba. Fatou Fall is graduate from Université Cheikh Anta Diop and got enlisted in the army in 1985. She also graduated from Université d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) where she studied hepatology and gastroenterology. She later […]
Kenya has slammed Russia and Gulf countries for their involvement in Sudan’s politics that does not help to find a solution to the conflict, while an exclusive article published by the Washington Post accuses the Russia’s Wagner Group of aggressively working to create a “confederation” of anti-Western states in Africa by creating instability across the […]
Investors are unloading Kenya’s dollar bonds due 2028, whose yields have climbed to 14.6% and the shilling has also trading at a record low, while opposition leader Raila Odinga’s Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) party has said protests against government policies would resume after Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, if no progress had been […]
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) needs to remove visas and reduce custom processes to ease movement of goods within the African continent — this is the main appeal voiced by the Pan-African Private Sector, under the umbrella body of the African Business Council (AfBC). During the AfCFTA Business Forum recently held in Cape […]
As fierce battles between armed forces loyal to two rival generals continue raging and with Sudanese counting their losses, the wider region is already reeling from the impact of the one-week conflict due to Khartoum’s economic importance in Northeast Africa, according to analysts. Khartoum’s economic importance to its neighbors have already been felt and, as […]
Morocco is “a critical partner” of the U.S. in countering violent extremism and terror threat in the Sahel and across Africa, said on Monday Ms. Dana Stroul, deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Speaking at a special online briefing with Major General Matthew McFarlane, Commander of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, Ms. Stroul […]
An economic partnership agreement aimed at bringing together the Moroccan and Congolese business communities was signed Tuesday in Rabat between the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Services (CCIS) of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra region and that of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Under this agreement, the two parties vow to establish an economic partnership to discover […]
Mohamad El-Gharawi, a staff member of the Egyptian embassy in Khartoum was killed in the ongoing conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the Egyptian Foreign ministry announced this Monday. Gharawi was slain on the way from his residence to the embassy headquarters to follow up on evacuation procedures for Egyptians […]
Congo and Angola have exempted officials, holders of diplomatic or public passports, of both countries of visa requirement in a move to facilitate mobility. Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, Congo’s top diplomat and his Angolan counterpart Tete António signed the agreement in the framework of the 8th joint cooperation committee between the two countries held in […]
Moroccan nationals will be repatriated from Sudan as the security situation in this country is deteriorating. Following the recent events in Sudan and the deterioration of the security situation in this brotherly country, King Mohammed VI, has given his high instructions to ensure the repatriation of Moroccan nationals from this country, the Ministry of Foreign […]