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French high-end luxury fashion house Dior is considering opening a shop in Egypt, reports say. Ali Al-Musailhi, Egypt’s Minister of Supply and Internal Trade met Monday with the head of the Christian Dior International Fashion House Chirome Body, the delegated member of the company Pierre de Majoria, accompanied by the president and delegated member of […]
Five tripartite Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were signed on Monday in Rabat, within the framework of the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project. These MoUs were signed respectively and successively by Morocco and Nigeria, on the one hand, and by Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana, on the other. The Moroccan National Office of Hydrocarbons […]
The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) must aim at reversing the unsustainable trend of excessive dependence by many of its members on imports of basic commodities, such as food and strategic agricultural inputs that has only exacerbated their vulnerabilities. This is the main message from a recent webinar organized by the UN Food and […]
President of Niger Mohamed Bazoum chaired Monday in Paris an investors’ roundtable for the financing of the Economic and Social Development Program known as PDES 2022-2026, the office of the African leader has indicated. The program, according to Bazoum, will require around $30 billion and contributions from international technical and financial partners and the private […]
The administrative court of London rejected, on Monday, the petition of a British NGO (WSC), working on behalf of the “polisario”, which challenged the association agreement between Morocco and Great Britain. With this verdict, the British justice confirms the validity of the partnership agreement between Morocco and the United Kingdom, which fully benefits the populations […]
The Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) leaders have agreed to establish a regional peacekeeping force to intervene in member states to help restore security and constitutional order in a region that has witnessed several coups in the past two years. West and Central Africa have made strides in the past decade to shed […]
Burkina Faso has ordered “the immediate suspension and until further notice” of Radio France Internationale (RFI), a French public radio, accusing it of having relayed an “intimidation message” attributed to a “terrorist leader.” Following the announcement by the Burkinabe government on Saturday (3 November), RFI protested the ban, calling Burkina Faso’s accusations unfounded. By having […]
Morocco will make a contribution to replenish the African Development Fund, a concessional funding window of the African Development Bank. “The decision reaffirms Morocco’s willingness and commitment to help African states in line with the King’s enlightened vision to foster African solidarity and prosperity,” Finance Minister Nadia Fettah Alaoui said in a speech read on […]
Sudan’s ruling generals and the main pro-democracy group have inked a framework deal until elections but key dissenters have stayed out of the agreement. The deal, the first of at least two planned accords, that was signed this Monday, pledges to establish a new, civilian-led transitional government to guide the country to elections and offers […]
A terror attack targeted a bowl club in the town of Bittou, the center-East province of Boulgou, on Sunday, killing four teachers, the National education ministry of Burkina Faso has announced. “The Ministry of Education honors the memory of four of its teachers, who fell as a result of the terrorist attack that targeted a […]