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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed Ben Salman Ben Abdelaziz Al-Saud, has joined the Heads of State who called King Mohammed VI to congratulate him on the occasion of Morocco’s qualification to the semifinals of the FIFA World Cup Qatar-2022. In a phone call, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia expressed to the Sovereign his […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has proposed plans to build a new standard gauge railway (SGR) linking Kampala, the capital city, with the Kenyan border, reports say. “We’re going to build a brand-new SGR line from Kampala to Kasese. Later on, we will extend it from Kampala to the border of Kenya and then to South […]
Police in Nigeria have killed three gunmen while repelling an attack on an office of the Electoral Commission (INEC) in the south-eastern region of the populated African country which is heading to presidential elections early next year. The attackers tried to storm the main INEC office in Owerri, capital of Imo State, police said, on […]
Egypt and Zambia are poised to bolster their cooperation in several telecommunications and information technology fields under a MoU signed by Egyptian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology and the zambian Ministry of Technology and Science. Egypt and Zambia will cooperate in the fields of digital transformation, postal services, the building of institutional competencies, skill […]
While some of the ports, bridges and other coastal projects constructed as part of Beijing’s so-called Maritime Silk Road help developing economies increase their capacity for trade, there are environmental downsides to China’s coastal infrastructure, according to a new academic study that has just been published in the journal One Earth. The study, by researchers […]
Chariot’s Anchois project offshore Morocco has taken a big step forward after the UK oil and gas company and its Moroccan partner “Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM) agreed on Monday on key principles for long term gas sales from the Anchois Gas Project with the Office National de l’Electricité et de l’Eau […]
Henri Claude Oyima, head of Gabon’s private bosses has indicated that the President of the republic Ali Bongo has nodded to the demand of the Federation of private companies of the central African country to take control of the struggling National Social Security Fund, CNSS. “We were pleased with the Head of State’s announcements on […]
The annual US-Africa Leaders Summit kicks off this Tuesday Dec.13 in Washington, D.C., where President Joe Biden will host about 50 African leaders, their delegations and Africans in the private sector and diaspora communities in the United States. The Biden’s three-day summit, which will focus on values such as democracy and good governance, as well […]
Morocco’s flag carrier RAM said it will offer 30 flights to carry fans to the semi-final match against France, a move that will help meet the rising demand on flights to Doha. Moroccan fans are among the largest in Doha as Morocco advances to the semi-finals for the first time in Africa’s history. The tickets […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the European Union (EU) have agreed to provide a financing package of up to €25million to Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) to support Morocco’s green transition. This is the third facility provided to BCP under the GCF Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) […]