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France’s foreign ministry Monday slammed Burkina Faso’s Saturday decision to expel two French journalists from the West African country. Authorities of the African country expelled Sophie Douce and Agnès Faivre respectively correspondents of Le Monde and Liberation after they were questioned by the country’s police directorate. Liberation reported that the army committed abuses against adolescents […]
Kenya’s Defense Ministry and the country’s Space Agency announced Monday the launching on April 10 from California (U.S.) Taifa-1, or Nation-1 in Swahili, the eastern African country’s first operational satellite. “The mission is an important milestone,” the ministry and the agency said in a joint statement, adding that it would contribute significantly to the country’s […]
South Africa will use its position as the 2023 chair of the BRICS multilateral bloc to advance the interests of African states under the theme of ‘BRICS and Africa Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Multilateralism’. “Africa supplied raw materials that contributed to the industrializations of other parts of the world. It is […]
The U.S. embassy in Algeria has reacted to the sentencing of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi to five years in prison, with two years suspended, for bogus charges to muzzle vocal critics of the ruling military junta. Immediately after the announcement of the verdict over the weekend by an Algerian court, the U.S. diplomatic mission […]
About 1,000 Ugandan troops and a first batch of at least 45 South Sudanese soldiers have entered the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) over the weekend to join the seven-nation East African Community (EAC) military force trying to stem the violence in the country’s eastern region wracked by the M23 rebellion. Ugandan troops operating as […]
The coach of Morocco’s Atlas Lions, Walid Regragui, was crowned with the prize for the best Arab coach, during the “Night of Legends” ceremony organized by “Sky News Arabia”, Sunday in Abu Dhabi. The Emirati channel also consecrated the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) as the best Arab federation after the historic feat of the […]
Morocco took part in the international forum on the rapprochement of cultures and human civilizations, held by the Foundation of the Three Cultures in Seville March 29-30. André Azoulay, Advisor to King Mohammed VI and co-president of the Three Cultures Foundation, who led the Moroccan delegation to the forum, praised the efforts made by the […]
Several members of the top commandment of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party, ANC, have traveled to Russia at the invitation of Russia’s ruling United Russia Party, ahead of August 15th BRIC summit, scheduled in Pretoria, Africa News reports. The ANC issued a statement last Saturday indicating discussions will focus on “the recalibration of […]
The European Union (EU) has granted Egypt $40 million earn-marked for the improvement of food security in the North African country, Egypt’s International Cooperation Ministry said in a statement. The EU will provide the funds through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS). Per the deal, the AICS will partner with the Egyptian Ministry of […]
Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi), the ruling party in Rwanda, re-elected Sunday country President Paul Kagame as its leader, ahead of the presidential polls to take place next year. An election at the party 16th congress gave Kagame overwhelming majority, with 2,999 votes, or 99.8% of the total votes, over his closest contender Abdulkarim Harelimana who […]