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The railway between Mali and Senegal will soon be operational, Senegalese President Macky Sall has announced in his new year address to the nation earlier this week. Mali has signed an agreement with China Railway Construction Corp to renovate a rail line linking its capital Bamako to the border with neighboring Senegal. The rail will […]
In Niger, a military camp was attacked Thursday by suspected Islamist militants, killing at least 25 soldiers and more than 60 assailants, local media reported. The attack took place on an army outpost in western Niger, just a few kilometers from the border with Mali. It is close to where 71 soldiers were killed just […]
The Polisario has recently threatened to sap the UN-peace process through violating ceasefire in the Sahara. Morocco unrelenting on its sovereignty over all its historical territories has responded so far peacefully by showing the growing support for its territorial integrity especially among African countries. Gambia, on the footsteps of Comoros, has taken its support for […]
Morocco’s and Borussia Dortmund’s defender Achraf Hakimi was crowned Africa’s 2019 Youth Player of the Year. The consecration was announced at a ceremony hosted by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) in Hurghada, Egypt, Tuesday. Hakimi expressed pride and happiness to win the “prestigious award.” “Winning the African Youth Player of the Year is a […]
The Togolese ruling party, Union pour la Republique, has chosen incumbent President Faure Gnassingbé as its candidate for elections next month. Togo has been ruled for the past 50 years by the Gnassingbé family, Africa’s most enduring political dynasty. Nearly 95% of Togolese have spent their entire lives ruled by members of the same family. […]
Just few weeks after the Comoros Islands opened a consulate in the Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune, Gambia opened this Tuesday Jan.7 its General Consulate in Dakhla. The Moroccand and Gambian Foreign Ministers Nasser Bourita and Mamadou Tangara chaired the opening ceremony of the consulate in the presence of several officials from both Rabat and […]
Ghana’s Finance Ministry is targeting to raise $3 billion in funding from its diaspora, through African Sankofa Account to fund economic development in the West African nation. The government will structure the investment vehicle to offer better rates to depositors, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said. He said the initiative was dictated by government’s quest to […]
African Lion, the annual Moroccan-US military exercise, will take place in March 2020 with the participation of 2500 US soldiers, Moroccan media reported. The games, which also bring together soldiers from other countries, are meant to improve interoperability and mutual understanding of participating armies tactics, techniques and procedures. Besides Morocco and the US, soldiers from […]
Gambian President Adama Barrow has launched his own political party in capital Banjul. The move frees him from the coalition that helped him win the presidency three years ago in the West African nation. The president has formally registered the new party, the National People’s Party (NPP), with the Independent Electoral Commission, making him the […]
Nigeria is studying the currency changes ringing through the West African region and will respond in due course, a statement by a media aide to the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning said. “Nigeria has received the news of the change of the UEMOA Currency, the CFA (Communaute Financiere d’Afrique) to Eco supposedly as […]