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The Biden administration’s charm offensive with Africa is ramping up in a big way, most recently with the launch of a new bureau aimed at making the battle against global outbreaks a lasting priority of US foreign policy and a pledge to seek partnership with African youth leaders to meet today’s challenges. Widely interpreted as […]
Thanks to a humane and united policy carefully designed under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, Morocco shows a way forward in terms of managing the migration issue in Africa, underlines the prestigious American think tank, Wilson Center. In an analysis published by the think tank, Stephen King, Professor of Political Science at Georgetown University, […]
After nearly a year of calls from the Haiti’s prime minister for armed intervention from abroad, Kenya is the first country to have now offered to lead a police force to help restore order to the island nation, where gangs that control vast parts of the country’s capital have fomented violence. UN Secretary-General António Guterres […]
U.S. Republican Senator Ted Cruz has praised Israel’s decision to recognize officially Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara territory, saying the move will open the way for to greater cooperation between the two countries. The supportive stand was posted by the senator of Texas in his official tweeter account, hailing the Abraham Accords brokered […]
The number of Singaporean companies doing business in Africa has soared from only 60 in 2018 to more than 155 companies today, which demonstrates that the wealthy city-state increasingly views Africa as a very important market that should not to be ignored. In a sign of this deepening connection, Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong […]
Africa’s position on the global stage needs to be strengthened to allow the continent to fully participate in discussions on G20 initiatives such as the Common Framework, according to Hanan Morsy, Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The Africa High-level Working Group on Global Financial Architecture […]
Tunisia’s Minister of Communication Technologies, Nizar Ben Neji, has held discussions with the Head of the Department of Science and Technology, Katie Noyes, as well as high-level delegation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the US Department of Justice on cybersecurity and electronic crime, and ways of protecting networks and basic digital infrastructures. […]
The coup in Niger has drawn strong condemnation from much of the international community, but most notably the United States and France, which have troops stationed there, as Niger’s putschists on Monday accused the former colonial ruler, France, of wanting to “intervene militarily” to reinstate the country’s deposed president. West African leaders on Sunday (30 […]
Victoria Nuland, the Acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States, has embarked on an African tour to take her to South Africa, Côte d’Ivoire, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, July 29 to August 4, the State Department has announced. In South Africa, the acting second-in-command at the State Department was to […]
The United States commended on Sunday King Mohammed VI’s role in furthering stability, security, and prosperity in the region. In a statement published by the State Department on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the Sovereign’s accession to the throne, U.S Secretary of State, Antony Blinken extended, on behalf of the Government and citizens […]