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The United States backs a Security Council reform that would offer Africa two permanent seats, Reuters reported, adding that Washington also supports a rotating seat for small island nations. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told Reuters however that the new UN Security Council members would not have veto power, which shall remain limited […]
“Donald Trump is a close friend (…) to the King of Morocco, because Morocco has been a historic friend of the United States. So, this historic friendship will continue”, said George G. Lombardi, advisor to republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. “I’m sure there is a strong friendship regardless of everything else between Trump and King […]
Exports of thermal coal from the US to Africa increased 60% in the first half of this year to 5.3 million tons, compared with 3.1 MMst in the same period in 2023, the International Energy Agency said. In the first half of 2024, U.S. exporters shipped virtually all (98%) of this thermal coal to Egypt […]
Canada’s Falcon Energy Materials said it signed a technical and strategic partnership with China’s Hensen to set up an anodes plant in Morocco to produce coated spherical purified graphite, a key electric battery component. Under this partnership, Hensen and Falcon will collaborate to develop a process flow sheet to produce coated spherical purified graphite as […]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo received the first batch of Mpox vaccines from the US, following a similar batch donated by the European Union as the country continues to battle the virus. The 50,000 doses donated by the US will go to the three worst affected provinces of Equateur, South Kivu, and Sankuru, authorities […]
In a significant blow to international drug trafficking, police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.6 tons of cocaine from a plane arriving from Venezuela. The operation, conducted at Bissau’s Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, resulted in the arrest of five crew members from various Latin American countries. This large-scale seizure underscores West Africa’s growing role as a […]
Ghana is taking a bold step into the nuclear age, signing a deal for its first atomic power plant using cutting-edge small modular reactor technology. This move puts the West African nation at the forefront of a global push for cleaner energy solutions. The agreement, inked at a US-Africa summit in Nairobi, will see Ghana […]
Germany has pledged to donate 100,000 doses of the Money Pox (mpox) vaccines to Africa, after France and Austria made similar commitments last week and as the continent is to belatedly receive 10,000 shots in the coming days amid criticism of delays caused by the World Health Organization’s (WTO) red tape. The first batch of […]
The US will send 10,000 mpox vaccines made by Bavarian Nordic to Africa, where a new strain of the virus spread outside its epicenter in the DRC to neighboring countries and beyond, Reuters reported. The vaccines will be sent next week marking a breakthrough in a vaccine regulatory labyrinth due to World Health Organization regulatory […]
Morocco has decided to speed up desalination projects to meet growing demand for drinking water and irrigation amidst a persistent drought. By 2030, 50 pc of the country’s drinking water will be supplied by desalination plants. Several foreign investors have shown interest in Morocco’s ambitious projects, including U.S. Company “Energy Recovery” which has signed lately […]