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Korea has launched on Monday a K-Rice project aiming to provide small farmers in Africa with resilient rice varieties that can withstand adverse climate conditions, ensuring improved yields and food security. By establishing the so-called “K-Rice Belt” across eight countries in Africa, the Korean government aims to advance current official development assistance (ODA) programs to […]
A majority of Africans believe that corruption increased drastically in their countries between 2021 and 2022, according to a latest survey conducted by Afrobarometer, that also highlighted the fact that an even larger proportion of the respondents feared retaliation should they report corrupt acts to the authorities. According to the Afrobarometer’s survey, in as many […]
The trial of Guinea’s former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara over the killings of 156 opposition supporters and rapes of at least 109 women at a 2009 rally has resumed weeks after it was suspended in May due to strikes by lawyers and prison wardens. The proceedings got under way again on Monday (10 July) after […]
Algeria’s impulsive military-guided diplomacy has sown wind and reaped whirlwind. The newly appointed foreign minister Ahmed Attaf has returned empty handed from Germany and Serbia to mention but a few trips in which he failed to win support for the separatist polisario front. Soon after his visit to Germany and Serbia where he met their […]
Guinea has reaffirmed its unwavering support for Morocco’s autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under its sovereignty, saying the plan is the “only credible and realistic solution” to the Sahara regional conflict. In a joint statement issued Monday following the 7th meeting of the Moroccan-Guinean Cooperation Commission convened in Dakhla, Guinea’s Foreign minister Morissanda Kouyaté […]
President of the Spanish Government Pedro Sánchez has reaffirmed the “solid ties” existing between Rabat and Madrid, and hailed the “dynamic cooperation” and “strategic partnership” between the two kingdoms. “In the context of Spain’s foreign policy, we have strong ties with Morocco of all kinds, but above all human ties created by our citizens and […]
Morocco is one of the top five nations in the Middle East and North Africa that produce the most electricity from solar energy, according to a survey by the Emirati Energy platform, and according to the Global Investment for 2023 report published lately by the United Nations, the kingdom ranks among the top ten developing […]
Conflict-torn Sudan is edging ever closer to a “full-scale civil war” that could destabilize the entire region, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, condemning an air strike that killed at least two dozen civilians and widespread violence in Darfur. The United Nations chief made his assessment in a statement on Sunday after the air strike […]
Burundi announced Sunday the death of its ambassador to Egypt, Cheik Rachid Malachie Niragira, who according to the Foreign ministry of the eastern African country died at his residence in Cairo on Saturday. The ministry did not provide details on the causes of the death but said one staff working at the residence found Niragira […]
Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been in power for almost 14 years, said on Sunday (9 July) that he would seek a third term in the elections scheduled for 26 August. “I officially announce today that I am a candidate,” Ondimba told a crowd of supporters in a speech broadcast live on his […]