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The United States and a host of other nations are creating a new global security force ‘Operation Prosperity Guardian’ to help protect and defend ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Tuesday (19 December) […]
Morocco and the Netherlands signed an extradition agreement, during a meeting in Rabat between Justice Minister, Abdellatif Ouahbi, and Dutch Minister of Justice and Security, Dilan Zegerius. Part of the implementation of the legal and judicial cooperation program between the two countries, this agreement allows the transfer of a person suspected or convicted of committing […]
Morocco’s Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), a branch of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested on Tuesday, as part of a joint security operation with the Spanish police intelligence General Commissariat, an extremist active in Farkhana, in Nador region in Northeastern Morocco, similarly with the arrest by the Spanish authorities of other […]
Russia’s humanitarian agency Rossotrudnichestvo, also known as “Russian House”, is planning to open offices in Burkina Faso and Guinea Equatorial amid growing presence of Moscow in the African continent. Pavel Shevtsov, the deputy head of the agency told State-run news agency Sputnik about plans to set up non-State Russian Houses in the two southern African […]
The Saudi Fund for Development, SFD, provided Monday December 18 Mauritania with a soft credit line of $40 million earmarked for the construction and equipment of two educational institutes that are specialized in key sectors of the economy. The deal was signed by SFD CEO Sultan Al-Marshad and Mauritania’s Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, […]
Developing countries are on a “path to debt crisis” and another “lost decade”, World Bank warns in its latest annual publication, unless African and other debtor governments, private and official creditors and multilateral financial institutions agree on a quick and coordinated action to secure more support from the creditors. The 50th edition of the ‘International […]
At least 14 people have lost their lives in the explosion of a fuel depot in capital Conakry in the early hours of Monday December 18, the Government of the West African country announced in a statement later in the day. The largest warehouse for storing fuel, located in the capital and belonging to State-run […]
As citizens in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prepare to head to the polls on Wednesday (20 December), Congolese authorities need to act urgently to prevent violence around the vote to stop a dangerous situation from getting even worse, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). As election-related violence across the DRC risk undermining the […]
Chad holds divisive post-coup vote on new constitution in step towards civilian rule Chadian citizens have cast their vote in a contentious constitutional referendum that marks a long-awaited return to civilian rule since the April 2021 military takeover, though it is widely seen as a move to consolidate power by transitional leader Mahamat Deby. The […]
The Moroccan city of Marrakesh, which hosted the 2023 WB-IMF Annual Meetings, CAF Awards 2023 and the latest Arab police conference, will host another major event, the Arab-Russian Forum, this December 19-20. The Forum is held under the theme of “the challenge of strengthening Russia’s place in the Arab region and in Africa.” Russian Foreign […]