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The European Union has earmarked six million euros, or 65 billion Guinean francs, for the response to the coronavirus epidemic in Guinea, under a contract signed on Monday with the NGO Alima (Alliance for International Medical), announced the European delegation in a statement. The funds should be injected in a project related to the health […]
Morocco’s BCP banking Group has partnered with Chinese telecom giant Huawei to provide various e-banking and mobile banking services to their clients in the African continent. A cooperation agreement was inked on Thursday in Casablanca by Kamal Mokdad, BCP Director for international operations, and Cao Jibin, Huawei manager for North Africa. BCP pledges to provide […]
South Africa has just started clinical trial of a vaccine against Covid-19, the first on the continent. This candidate vaccine has been developed by Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and is already being tested in humans in Great Britain. The vaccine trial started on June 24 in Johannesburg, the commercial capital, and Pretoria, the national […]
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has decided to postpone the next Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) to January 2022 due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The 33rd CAN was initially scheduled to be held in Cameroon between June & July 2021, but in January 2020, the African football governing body decided to […]
Morocco’s phosphate group OCP has shown resilience and agility amid the coronavirus crisis and is forging ahead to bolster its leadership position in the African fertilizers market. The group maintains its fertilizers factories in Ghana, Nigeria and Ethiopia unchanged and expects to switch them on by 2024, the OCP told Reuters. Nigeria plant in particular […]
Sudanese authorities announced the arrest in the Darfur region of 122 mercenaries who were travelling to neighboring Libya to take part in the conflict. This group of combatants included eight children. According to several UN reports, hundreds or even thousands of Sudanese fight regularly in Libya, but this is the first time that Khartoum has […]
Secretary-general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Mukhisa Kituyi, has commended Morocco’s contribution to the development of the African continent and the key role it plays in giving substance to South-South cooperation. During a virtual meeting held Wednesday in Geneva with the Group of the Non-Aligned Movement members, Kituyi praised the […]
Morocco has stood out in Africa as a leader that developed an efficient anti-coronavirus approach while preparing the ground for tapping into the opportunities offered by the pandemic for economic and geo-strategic leadership in the continent, French paper Le Point reported. In an article dubbed “Morocco, a future African champion”, the paper highlights Morocco’s position […]
The protective medical gears and anti-covid-19 drugs sent by Morocco’s King to several African countries to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic continue to receive widespread appreciation as a move which brings in hope, comfort and solidarity to the continent. Hard times always reveal true friends and Morocco never leaves his African brothers combating […]
President of Senegal Macky Sall has self-isolated himself after he came in contact with someone who tested positive to COVID-19, his office said on Wednesday. The statement said the Senegalese President tested negative, yet he opted to undergo the 15-day quarantine process as precaution under medical recommendation. Another state official, lawmaker Yeya Diallo, announced earlier […]