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Special economic zones (SEZs) are mushrooming in Africa and while many challenges lay ahead, these zones have shown considerable potential for they can play a tremendous role in the development of the African continent. Policymakers all across Africa have increasingly resorted to SEZs with the aim of turning around their countries’ economic fortunes, as they […]
African nations need to do more to address the widespread displacement, killings and other abuses that have come about from the continent’s many conflicts, according to a new report published this week by Human Rights Watch. The report that summarizes human rights trends in 23 African countries has found that in many countries on the […]
Uganda has begun to court Yapi Merkezi, a Turkish firm, that is building the Tanzanian railway for financing and construction of a railroad after it cancelled all contractual work it had earlier signed with China Harbor Engineering Company. The east African nation has canceled the deal it signed with the Chinese company to build a […]
A U.S. Congressional delegation, composed of seven members representing the Democratic and Republican parties, highlighted, Friday in Rabat, the Kingdom’s regional leadership in North Africa and across Africa, in favor of peace, under the enlightened vision of King Mohammed VI. “Our interest in the days ahead is to continue to work for peace in this […]
French President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out offering any apologies to Algeria over France’s colonial past while insisting on continuing reconciliation efforts between the two countries. In an interview with Algerian writer Kamal Daoud published on Le Point, Macron made it clear “I have no apologies to make.” “The only pardon I asked for was […]
The FIFA Club World Cup draw ceremony was held at the Mohammed VI Center in Mamoura, this Friday noon. The ceremony was attended by Gianni Infantino, President of the International Federation of Football Associations, Patrice Motsepe, President of the Confederation of African Football, and Fawzi Lakjaa, President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, as well […]
African diaspora is in need of urgent action to reduce the cost of remittances, an instrumental source of investment and a key factor in reducing poverty in the continent, said participants at an African meeting in Rabat. There are some 150 million Africans living outside the continent with remittances estimated at 100 billion dollars in […]
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Patrice Motsepe arrived this Friday in Morocco to attend the draw of the Club World Cup due in the North African Kingdom between 1-11 February. The two top football officials arrived at the Rabat-Salé airport coming aboard a private jet from Algeria. […]
The U23 national soccer team is, Friday morning, at the Rabat-Salé airport waiting for the official authorization to take off to Constantine to take part in the African Nations Championship (CHAN), which will be held from January 13 to February 4, 2023. “We are at the airport and we are still waiting for the official […]
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to help flush out members of the al-Shabaab jihadist group he describes as “bedbugs,” as hundreds of people in the country’s capital Mogadishu attended a government-organized rally to protest against the group’s bloody insurgency. Sheikh Mohamud declared “all-out” war against Islamist fighters shortly after he came to office […]