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The Algerian regime has put its football league matches on hold under the pretext of “solidarity with Palestine” in a decision that many analysts see as a pre-emptive move to avert a return of the pro-democracy protests, known as the Hirak. The Hirak has forced the late then ailing Bouteflika to give up a fourth […]
Egyptian holding company GYPTO pharma and several other local companies signed Monday $129.44 million worth of contracts with Saudi Arabian Med City Pharma company to transfer drug manufacturing technology and production to the kingdom, ‘Ahram Online’ reports. Under the deal, GYPTO Pharma will also manufacture some of its drug brands in Med City’s factories in […]
Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, wife of Gabon’s former leader Ali Bongo Ondimba, will remain in detention in Libreville main prison after the investigative judge turned down her defense team’s bailout request, ‘Gabon Review’ reports. The Franco-Gabonese woman was sent to prison on October 12, after long hours of hearing in an alleged case of money laundering […]
King Mohammed VI has received a verbal message from Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani. The message was conveyed to the Sovereign by Sheikh Faisal Bin Thani Al Thani, Chief of Asia & Africa Investments at Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) at an audience at the Royal Palace in Rabat Monday. The […]
King Felipe VI of Spain highlighted, Monday in Bilbao, the importance of his country’s relations with Morocco and underlined that Morocco has “economic sectors with high potential.” “Morocco is a country with high potential economic sectors,” King Felipe VI said in an address delivered at the opening of the 26th National Congress of Family Business, […]
King Mohammed VI, President of the Al-Quds Committee, has given his instructions for the dispatching of emergency humanitarian aid to the Palestinian populations. This aid includes significant quantities of foodstuffs, medical supplies, and water, a statement released this Monday by the Foreign Ministry said. The modalities of sending this emergency assistance will be […]
Morocco has called on the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) to support peace, security and development efforts in Gabon and Niger to ensure the success of the transition in these two African countries. Addressing remotely a PSC meeting focusing on the situation in Gabon and Niger, Morocco’s permanent representative to […]
As many as 34 people dealing with funds in several State entities, including the office of the President, have been banned from leaving the country amid an ongoing investigation into alleged funds embezzlement. Aly Touré, the Prosecutor of the Court for the Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses (CRIEF) has targeted the people in question […]
World football governing body FIFA will roll out its “Football for Schools Program (F4S) in Burundi, making the African country the 100th worldwide to benefit from the initiative. FIFA President Gianni Infantino inaugurated the program Saturday October 21 at the Urunani Stadium in Buganda, outside capital Bujumbura. The ceremony was attended by the Burundi Minister […]
Gen. Mohamed Toumba Boubacar, the Interior minister of Niger said Sunday October 22 during an international Conference held in Lome, Togo, that the regional bloc ECOWAS’s ambition to reinstate Mohamed Bazoum, removed from power on July 26 by a junta, is a fantasy. The conference themed: Lome Peace and Security Forum (LPSF), is the first […]