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Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, commended Morocco’s commitment to advancing joint African action. During talks held Monday at the headquarters of the pan-African organization in Addis Ababa with Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mohamed Arrouchi, Ali Youssouf praised “Morocco’s constructive […]
The Nigeria-Morocco Atlantic African Gas Pipeline has crossed a major political threshold after member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) formally signed an agreement endorsing the transcontinental energy project, transforming what began as a bilateral initiative into a flagship regional undertaking. The signing, which took place at the ECOWAS summit in […]
Sudanese authorities have reopened the Khartoum-Medani railway line this Monday after a four-year suspension, following the completion of maintenance and rehabilitation works by the Sudan Railways Corporation. A ceremony was held in Wad Medani, the capital of Al-Gezira State, to mark the restoration of operations on the key railway route, which had been affected by […]
The far-sighted vision of King Mohammed VI for a developed and self-dependent Africa leveraging its own resources is taking form with the consolidation of South-South cooperation, regional integration and win-win partnership. The Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline project, renamed African-Atlantic Gas pipeline (AAGP), has reached this weekend a milestone with the signing by the Heads of state […]
On Thursday, July 16 2026, the United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on 11 individuals and entities accused of supporting Sudan’s warring factions through conflict-related gold trading, procurement networks and financial activities. The British Foreign Office said Sudan’s gold sector has become a major source of funding for the country’s war economy, with billions of dollars’ […]
Morocco’s southern provinces are establishing themselves as one of the Kingdom’s fastest-growing investment destinations, underpinned by large-scale infrastructure programs, an increasingly favorable regulatory environment and a strategic geographic position that offers investors direct access to West African markets. These findings are at the heart of the “Doing Business — Investing in Morocco’s Southern Provinces” guide, […]
Algeria has quietly climbed down in its standoff with Mali, reopening its airspace to Malian aircraft and returning its ambassador to Bamako, the latest in a string of diplomatic retreats that has come to define Algiers’ diplomacy with the countries it has picked fights with in recent years, from Spain to France and now the […]
The European Union (EU) has announced new sanctions targeting Sudan’s gold sector, banning the purchase, import and transfer of Sudanese gold, while also prohibiting the export of mercury and cyanide used in gold mining. The measures are intended to curb financial resources that sustain the conflict and increase pressure on those accused of fuelling the […]
Morocco has called for making the Afro-Atlantic space a driver of peace, stability and shared prosperity in line with the Royal vision and initiatives launched for Sahel countries and for strengthening cooperation between African countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean. In an address to the 7th ministerial meeting of the Atlantic African States Process (AASP) convening […]
A Sudanese Court on Sunday sentenced Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and 15 others to death in absentia over the killing of West Darfur Governor Khamis Abbakar and crimes committed during the conflict in Darfur. The ruling, the first against the RSF leadership since the war began on the 15th April 2023, […]