First Independent Mena Newspaper
Defense Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR) Claude Rameaux Bireau is set to visit Russia next week amid talks between the two countries for Moscow to set up a military base in the African country now very close to Russian President Vladimir Putin. CAR ambassador to Russia Leon Dodonu-Punagaza told the media about the […]
Spiro, a leading electric motorbike manufacturer and clean energy provider in Africa, has landed $63 million loan from GuarantCo, a company in the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), and the French bank Société Générale to be used to expand its fleet of electric motorbikes, alongside the associated batteries and swap stations, in Benin and Togo. […]
Huayou, a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles battery materials, would invest 200 billion dirhams or $20 bln in a plant in Morocco’s region of Laayoune Sakia El Hamra in the Sahara, the regional investment center announced. A delegation of the Chinese group visited the region where officials introduced competitive attractions to help the company export […]
Mali’s Foreign ministry announced Wednesday August 9 decision by authorities to suspend indefinitely issuance of visa to French nationals after the European country also made similar decision and classified the West African country “red zone” on the grounds of “strong regional tensions.” France’s embassy in Mali’s capital Bamako has closed its visa center and indicated […]
Egypt’s Ministry of Health signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday August 9 with French Gustave Roussy National Cancer Institute to upgrade and raise the standards of Egyptian public hospitals, “Ahram Online” reports. The MoU will, according to the ministry, improve the quality and efficiency of public health facilities and enhance public-private partnerships in the sector. […]
Romania on Wednesday thanked the Kingdom of Morocco for its “important support” for the release of Romanian hostage Iulian Gherguț, who had been held in the Sahel region since 2015. In a statement, the Romanian Foreign Ministry announced the release of the security officer from a manganese mine in northern Burkina Faso, near the borders […]
Ghana’s government has given the nod to a pioneering green-minerals policy that is aimed at helping the West African country manage the exploitation and production of lithium, a step towards tapping into the multibillion-dollar global industry. The “Minerals of the Future” policy, which was approved by the cabinet on 27 July, stands testament to Ghana’s […]
The number of people killed in Africa’s central Sahel region by insurgents, armed groups, state forces and foreign mercenaries has surged this year, according to data by The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), contradicting the claims by the military rulers of Mali, Burkina Faso and now Niger that they are tackling insecurity. […]
Survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have criticized United Nations court’s call to halt the trial of the nearly 90-year-old Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier and supporter of the massacre due to the suspect’s ill health. In June, judges at the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals halted Kabuga’s trial because he has dementia […]
Eritrean refugees and asylum-seekers have reported that they had experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions during compulsory national service in the country, according to an UN report circulated Monday (7 August). The UN independent investigator on human rights, Mohamed Babiker, said in the report that Eritrea, […]