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Morocco’s outreach to Africa is based on a win-win approach underpinned by solidarity and co-development, Minister in charge of Africa cooperation Mohcine Jazouli reiterated at an EU-AU ministerial meeting in Brussels. Spearheaded by King Mohammed VI, Morocco broke away with conditionality in favor of co-development actions that address Africa’s pressing issues: peace and sustainable development, […]
The Ethiopian government has pardoned about 13,200 people who were previously charged with or convicted of terrorism and/or treason. According to state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate, more than 13,200 individuals took advantage in the past six months of a law passed by parliament in July allowing people convicted or facing charges of “treason, crime against the […]
A report released by a United Nations body, OCHA, on Tuesday said over four million Cameroonians are suffering the consequences of the long-running conflict in the country’s North-West and South-West since late 2017. Activists in the country’s Anglophone western regions are protesting their forced assimilation into the dominant Francophone society. They argue that this process […]
South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday called on the international community to end the economic sanctions against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is still subject to U.S. sanctions dating back to the rule of Mugabe, who stepped down in November 2017 and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa. The EU and the United States imposed sanctions against Zimbabwe in […]
A Nigerian agency fighting people trafficking says its fact-finding team has found at least 20,000 girls stranded in Mali. According to Julie Okah-Donli, the Director General of The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), the organization has received reports concerning the stranded girls and “sent a team to find out”. She […]
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cut short his international trip to Europe to attend an urgent meeting at home as violent protests escalated in his country. The president has expressed his concern about reports he has been receiving about the recent protests and strikes in the southern African nation. Mnangagwa has called for calm and […]
South Africa’s economic growth will accelerate to 1.3 percent in 2019 from an estimated 0.9 pct in 2018, the World Bank said on Tuesday citing the implementation of structural reforms announced last year. The World Bank projects South Africa’s economic growth at 1.7% in 2020, and 1.8% in 2021. Economic growth would be supported by […]
Morocco was distinguished as the second best performing African country for the quality of its sustainable management of ocean resources, the US-based National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) said in a recent report. Morocco came after Seychelles and was followed by Egypt in the Ocean Health Index issued by the NCEAS while Democratic […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno at the presidential palace in N’djamena on Sunday, during a visit his office described as a “historic breakthrough”. According to Netanyahu, the visit to a very large Muslim country with borders with Libya and Sudan is part of the revolution “we are leading […]
US Africa Command, which oversees US military operations on the continent, last weekend said an airstrike near Jilib, Middle Juba Region of Somalia, killed more than 52 militants of al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group, al-Shabaab. The airstrike was conducted “in response to an attack by a large group of al-Shabaab militants against Somali National Army Forces” […]