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As the Rwandan government on Sunday raised the curtain of a three-month remembrance period, marking the 25th anniversary of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi, King Mohammed VI addressed a written message to President Paul Kagame. The royal message expresses Morocco’s solidarity with the Rwandan people and renews its strong resolve to bolster bilateral […]
King Mohammed VI has urged the Islamic Development Bank to help its member countries to diversify their economies and stimulate the private sector, a growth engine and a source for the creation of wealth. In a message to the 44th annual meeting of IDB Group, convening in Marrakech (April 5-6), the Moroccan Sovereign said most […]
Moroccan citizen Mouad Hajji could take up the African Football Confederation’s strategic position of Secretary General next week in replacement of the incumbent role player Amr Fahmy who faces a dismissal over alleged leakage of confidential documents. Moroccan e-journal le360, citing an Egyptian source within the African football governing body, says Hajji who currently works […]
The United States has revoked the entry visa of the international criminal court’s chief prosecutor, her office has said on Thursday. Fatou Bensouda has been investigating allegations of war crimes by US forces and their allies in Afghanistan despite a warning issued by Washington last month to refuse or revoke visas to any ICC staff […]
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) plans to build one million water tanks in Senegal, Niger and Burkina Faso to address the water deficit experienced by these Sahel nations. Water is becoming increasingly scarce in Sahel countries, which often already suffer from a structural shortage of water infrastructure. FAO’s initiative will provide some 20,000 women […]
Algeria has shown reluctancy to support its southern neighbors in their joint efforts to counter terrorism through the G5 force, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said in a recent study. Algeria “has shown itself willing to export security threats to Mali to secure its own territory and safeguard its oil and gas exploitation sites,” […]
Gambia’s National Assembly has ratified the agreement that seeks to establish the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Twenty-two signatures were the minimum threshold required to approve the deal among the 55 member states of the African Union. With Gambia’s ratification, the continent’s free trade agreement has drawn enough signatures to go into operation. The […]
Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat has reaffirmed the African Union’s full backing to the decision adopted by the African summit of Nouakchott on the Sahara and UN efforts made to reach a mutually acceptable political solution to this regional conflict. The report submitted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the Security […]
Pilots of the 737 Max that crashed in Ethiopia last month initially followed Boeing’s standard emergency procedures to try to get control of the plane, before the crash, Ethiopia’s transport minister told a news conference in Addis Ababa on Thursday, as she delivered the first official report on the disaster. According to Dagmawit Moges, the […]
South Sudan is targeting an increase in crude oil production of 70,000 bpd by June 2019, the country’s Minister of Petroleum, Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth said on Wednesday. The statement follows a tour at the El-Nar, El-Toor and Manga oilfields last weekend. Gatkuoth encouraged the China Petroleum Engineering and Construction Corporation to fast track the rehabilitation […]