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The Chadian government has brushed aside reports that Ndjamena is backing up the Sudanese army in the ongoing internal conflict opposing it to the paramilitary group, Rapid Support Force (RSF). The Foreign ministry of the central African country has issued a statement in response to media reports citing a diplomatic source that the transitional government […]
After instruction from King Mohammed VI, Morocco has started evacuating its citizens from Sudan as in-fighting worsens in the country. A first plane carrying 136 Moroccan Nationals stranded in Sudan landed at Casablanca Airport this Wednesday morning, and a second plane is expected to arrive later in the day. The Royal Air Maroc plane took […]
President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo has sent a written message to King Mohammed VI. The message was handed over to Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita by Congolese Minister for the Environment, Sustainable Development and the Congo Basin, Arlette Soudan-Nonault, who is also the coordinator of the Congo Basin Climate Commission. In a statement to […]
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 […]