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Hunting Trophies at heart of Germany-Botswana dispute

Botswana’s President strongly protested against a German plan to restrict imports of hunting trophies from the African country. Germany raised sustainability and poaching concern for its hunting trophy restrictions. President Mokgweetsi Masisi responded to the decision saying he would send 20,000 elephants as a gift to Germany, complaining of an over elephant population. “It is […]

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New Senegalese President receives Moroccan delegation representing King Mohammed VI at his inauguration ceremony

The new President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, received, on Tuesday in Diamniadio near Dakar, the Moroccan delegation, led by the Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch, who represented King Mohammed VI at the inauguration ceremony. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the swearing-in and inauguration ceremony of President-elect Bassirou Diomaye Faye. During the […]

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Royal religious lecture highlights spiritual bond between Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa

King Mohammed VI chaired a fifth Ramadan religious lecture highlighting the centuries-old religious, cultural, and human ties between the Maghreb region and Sub-Saharan Africa. In his lecture, Ousmane Kane, Professor of Islamic Thought at Harvard University in the United States of America, challenged the western narrative which tends to treat North Africa as a separate […]

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King Mohammed VI represented at inauguration ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect; sole head of state outside the sub-region to have been invited

King Mohammed VI was represented at the swearing-in and inauguration Ceremony of Senegal’s President-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, by Head of Government, Aziz Akhannouch. The Sovereign was the only head of state outside the sub-region to have been invited to attend the inauguration ceremony, an invitation that reflects, if need be, the depth of the unfailing […]

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Chad: dozens of people killed in inter-communal clashes between farmer and herder communities

More than two dozen people were killed during the last week of March in clashes between rival farmer and herder communities in a region of southern Chad that frequently sees similar land disputes, the country’s authorities have said. communications minister told AFP on Monday. The fighting was triggered by the “assassination” of a nomadic Arab-speaking […]

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Mali: over 80 parties, civil groups demand elections after junta failed to transfer power on 26 March

More than 80 political parties and civil groups in Mali, repressed by the ruling junta, have united to issue a rare call for an end to the transitional military rule and demanded a presidential election to be held “as soon as possible”. The current junta leadership in Mali, which seized power in a military coup […]

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Ethiopia set to repatriate some 70,000 nationals in ‘difficult situation’ from Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia has announced it is going to repatriate some 70,000 of its nationals who have been living in squalid conditions in Saudi Arabia, a third such program since 2018. The announcement was made last week in Addis Ababa, with the repatriation set to begin in early April, targeting some 70,000 “Ethiopians who are in a […]

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DRC appoints its first-ever female prime minister as violence surges in country’s east

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s former planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka has been appointed as the African nation’s first-ever female prime minister amid worsening security and humanitarian situation in the country’s east. Suminwa was appointed on Monday (1 April) by DRC’s President Felix Tshisekedi, who sought to fulfill his campaign promise and make an important […]

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Ethiopia to repatriate 70,000 citizens from Saudi Arabia

Ethiopia is reportedly planning to bring back home 70,000 members of its diaspora in Saudi Arabia, claiming that they live in squalid conditions, the East African Publication, a Kenyan news portal, reported. Ethiopia will start repatriation in April as a commitment to the grievances of its citizens abroad, the publication said. State Minister Birtukan Ayano […]

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“Cultural and intellectual relations between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Greater Maghreb”, theme of Ramadan 5th religious lecture

King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay El Hassan, Prince Moulay Rachid and Prince Moulay Ismail, chaired, on Monday at the Royal Palace in Casablanca, the fifth religious lecture of the holy month of Ramadan 1445 AH. The lecture, on the theme of “Cultural and intellectual relations between Sub-Saharan Africa […]