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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has released its three-man shortlist for the 2019 Player of the Year awards. Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez who captained Algeria to Nations Cup success in Egypt in 2019 and Liverpool duo Sadio Mane of Senegal and Egypt’s Mohamed Salah are on top of the list. Mane and Salah […]
Côte d’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara has announced that West Africa’s monetary union has agreed with France to rename its CFA franc the Eco and cut some of the financial links with Paris. The CFA will undergo three major changes, according to Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara. The name will change to Eco in 2020; France, would […]
A raid by French troops in Mali has killed 33 Islamist militants last weekend using attack helicopters, ground troops and a drone, near the border with Mauritania, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The operation took place in a different part of Mali where 13 French soldiers died last month in a helicopter crash while tracking […]
Morocco and Mauritania are determined to bolster their cooperation particularly in matters related to security, stability and development of West and North Africa. This cooperation was discussed at a meeting Friday in Rabat between the two countries’ Foreign Ministers, Nasser bourita and Smael Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who is visiting Morocco to take part in the […]
Fourteen months after suffering a stroke, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has opened the central African regional bloc’s extraordinary summit in Libreville. Bongo, 60, is the current chair of the 11-nation Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), a 36-year-old organization meant to forge a common market among its member states. Bongo spoke without notable […]
Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space on Friday from a space station in China, Reuters reported. Senior officials and citizens of the Horn of Africa nation watched a live broadcast of the satellite’s launch at the Entoto Observatory and Research Centre just north of the capital Addis Ababa. The satellite was designed by […]
Morocco took over the rotating chairmanship of the Union of Economic & Social Councils & Similar Institutions of Africa during the Union’s General Assembly convened Wednesday in Rabat. Ahmed Reda Chami, President of the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) won the majority of votes and will thus chair the African body for the […]
Two laws asserting Morocco’s sovereignty on all its territorial waters on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, including off the Sahara, will soon be adopted by Moroccan MPs. The laws, already adopted by the foreign affairs committee at the Lower House, were described as “ground breaking” by Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita who said the legislation […]
The Union of the Comoros opened on Wednesday a Consulate General in Morocco’s southern city of Laayoune, dealing a hard blow to the Polisario separatist group, supported by Algeria. The diplomatic representation was opened during an official ceremony attended by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, his Comorian peer Mohamed El-Amine Soue and several senior personalities. Last […]
African ministers of defense, army chiefs of staff and heads of safety and security are set to convene a high-level continental meeting in Cairo on Thursday (Dec.19) to discuss continental peace and security issues, the African Union Commission (AUC) said. The meeting will be held as part of the upcoming 12th Ordinary Meeting of the […]