First Independent Mena Newspaper
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the draft agreement between his country and Sudan for the establishment of a Russian naval base on the shores of the African country. The draft deal was announced last week and waited for the Russian leader’s stamp. The base will be Russia’s first ever full military presence in Africa […]
The Economic and Monetary Community of Central African Countries raised €3.8 billion at a two-day round table in Paris. The Funds are destined to finance the bloc’s Regional Economic Program meant to boost growth by 2025. The program comprises 84 projects, including 11 presented as priority integrating projects. The total cost of these projects has […]
The Community of Sahel Saharan States (CEN-SAD) have expressed support for the measures taken by Morocco to reopen Guerguarat crossing to traffic after weeks of Polisario banditry that left the route linking Morocco to the rest of Africa blocked. Morocco on Friday opened the road after a professional intervention of the Royal Armed Forces that […]
Senegal is the first team to qualify for the final phase of the next African Cup of Nations to be held in early 2022 in Cameroon. With 12 points, the Senegalese are indeed certain to finish in one of the first two places in Group I, in the qualifiers of this “CAN 2021”. They got […]
French Government officials announced Friday that France’s anti-jihadist force in Mali had killed the military commander of an Al-Qaeda-aligned group linked to attacks in the region. Senior commander of Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) militant group, Bah ag Moussa, aka Bamoussa Diarra, had been killed in a French military operation in the Menaka area on […]
Moroccan investment fund, Outlierz Ventures, has made eight investments in Africa since its launch in 2017. The operations mainly benefited four dynamic African markets in terms of fundraising, including Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Morocco. The company, dedicated to technology, invests between MAD 500,000 and 5 million in companies with high growth potential. It targets […]
Former Malian President Amadou Toumani Touré (“ATT”), who ruled the country from 2002 to 2012 before being overthrown in a military coup, died during the night of Monday 9 to Tuesday 10 November in Turkey, at the age of 72, a relative and a doctor reported. “Amadou Toumani Touré died during the night of […]
A new scandal has shaken the increasingly divided South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC with the issuing of an arrest warrant against the party’s Secretary General Ace Magashule. The figure of the ruling party is accused of corruption in a public contract case from his time as governor of Free State province. Rumors of […]
The French Development Agency (AFD) has earmarked €300,000 to fund a pan-African training program for museum and heritage professions in Africa to be spearheaded by Morocco’s National Museum Foundation (FNM). The grant-related agreement was signed Monday in Rabat by French Foreign Minister Jean Yves le Drian, President of the FNM Mehdi Qotbi, and AFD Director […]
A forum on intercommunity reconciliation opened on Thursday in Niono, a town in the Segou region, in the center of the country. Four ministers and several hundred people were invited to take part in the discussions aimed at easing tensions between the various communities, including the traditional Dozo hunters on the one hand and the […]