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US Vice President Kamala Harris will become the highest-ranking Biden administration official to visit Africa when she begins a tour of Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia on Sunday. Harris will focus on strengthening partnerships, security and economic prosperity, her office said, with analysts adding that her mere presence – as the first female vice president who […]
The Moroccan embassy in Qatar has confirmed the death of a Moroccan national after a four-story building collapsed on Wednesday in Doha’s Bin Durham neighborhood. Qatari Interior ministry said the search & rescue teams pulled seven survivors from the rubble, while the one person killed was inside the building at the time of the collapse. […]
Burkina Faso has acquired military equipment including drones and armored vehicles worth around $415 million to beef up the army’s capacity in the fight against terrorism, reports say. The acquisition took place this month after the government greenlighted on March 1st the ratification of a sovereign guarantee in favor of International Business Bank Burkina (IB […]
Shen Ching, a Chinese company producing cast-iron pipes and steel industry, has announced plans to invest $2 billion in Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone. Head of the Chinese firm, He Kijo, made the announcement during a meeting with Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli in Egypt. The project is set to be built on an area of […]
Spanish government sources rejected as unfounded the accusations against Morocco or any other country in connection with the use of the Pegasus spyware, said Spanish news agency EFE on Wednesday. The government sources described as “mere speculation” any attempt to accuse a third country, especially Morocco, of using Pegasus spyware on members of the Spanish […]
The Nigerien army has killed 20 Boko Haram fighters near the border with Nigeria, AFP news agency reported. Military operations bulletin in the Diffa region (south-east of Niger) consulted by the agency indicated that the army last week wiped out in an “air-land sweep” operation the bases of the Islamic State in West Africa group […]
The Moroccan government has condemned the irresponsible and provocative remarks made by Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, who claimed there is no such thing as Palestinian history or culture and no such thing as a “Palestinian people.” Commenting this shameful statement made at a conference in France, Moroccan Foreign minister Nasser Bourita said on Wednesday […]
Rachid M’Barki, ex-journalist of French BFM TV who has been fired for having uttered the expression “Moroccan Sahara” in a reporting on a Moroccan-Spanish economic forum in Dakhla, said during his hearing at the French National Assembly: “Morocco has never given me a single penny to say anything.” The Kingdom “is a large, sovereign country […]
China is importing more food products such as avocados, cashews, sesame seeds and chili peppers from Africa, after President Xi Jinping promised to increase non-resource imports from Africa and agriculture is emerging as the new focus of Beijing’s engagement with the continent. In the first two months of this year, Shanghai ports handled more than […]
The terrorist designation given to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, will be removed, Ethiopian lawmakers decided in a special session Wednesday (22 March), but UN human rights experts have warned that violations committed during the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region must still be investigated if long-term peace is to be achieved. Lawmakers […]