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The World Association of PPP Units & PPP Professionals (WAPPP) and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) are keen to help Togo attract private investment to finance its development, both organizations said during a meeting with the country’s leader Faure Gnassigbe, on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi World Investment Forum. Ziad Hayek, President […]
The presidents of the federations of Morocco, Portugal and Spain met Wednesday morning in Lisbon as part of the joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup. The leaders’ summit brought together Fernando Gomes (Portuguese Football Federation), Fouzi Lekjaa (Royal Moroccan Football Federation) and Pedro Rocha (Royal Spanish Football Federation) and made it possible to […]
Ugandan police has said they were pursuing suspected members of an an armed group aligned with Islamic State (IS) that reportedly killed three people, including two foreign tourists, in a world-famous Ugandan national park. The police said on Tuesday (17 October) that it blamed the attack on the notorious militia group known as the Allied […]
Gabon’s leader of the transition Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has instructed the Foreign ministry to launch an embassy in Rwanda as soon as possible, the office of the Gabonese leader announced in a statement following a meeting with Gabonese living in the central African country on Monday October 16. Nguema visited on October 16 […]
A UN agency has given Zambia and Zimbabwe permission to build a $5 billion hydropower dam downstream from Victoria Falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to the authority overseeing its construction. Environmentalists have protested the 2,400-megawatt Batoka Gorge project, which is located 47 kilometers from the world’s largest waterfall, saying it would have a […]
The UN Security Council held closed-door consultations in New York on the Moroccan Sahara issue. According to diplomatic sources in New York, the Council’s members were briefed Monday by the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, as well as the Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of MINURSO, […]
Morocco has strongly condemned the bombing by Israeli forces of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip that left hundreds of Palestinians dead and injured. The condemnation was expressed in a statement released Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Morocco “strongly condemns” the bombing by Israeli forces of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza […]
Stella Terra, the world’s first solar powered car, has been tested in Morocco. Designed by students from Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), the lightweight vehicle has completed lately a 1,000 km trip from Northern Morocco to its Sahara without recharging. The test drive showed that the car can drive long distances with stopping at EV […]
Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s Interior Minister, indicated Monday October 16 the country’s civil guard will step up surveillance operations on the coasts of Senegal and Mauritania in view of curbing illegal migrations from the two African countries. Grande-Marlaska made the announcement following a meeting held in Canary Islands, a Spanish autonomous territory facing waves of arrivals […]
Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) decided to establish a visa-free regime between the two countries, Sputnik reports citing a joint communique, which was signed by the parties on the eighth Uganda-DRC Joint Commission. “To this end, the two parties agreed to remove entry visa fees on reciprocal bases to facilitate free […]