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France’s development agency, Agence Française de Developpement (AFD), will build 500 school classrooms across Gabon for a total investment of 154 million euros in a bid to help address the issue of overcrowding of schools in the central African country, Gabon Actu reports. Marie Sennequier, Director of the agency in Gabon, during a press conference […]
The African Development Bank, AfDB, has accorded $80 million credit facility earmarked to enhance food self-sufficiency and security, through securing the supply of soft wheat, barley and fertilizers. The loan deal was signed Thursday between Samir Said, Tunisia’s Minister of Economy and Planning and Mohamed El Azizi, the Director General, Regional Development and Service Delivery […]
Morocco’s annual dates production is expected to increase to 300,000 tons by 2030 up from 149,000 tons recorded in 2021, according to latest data released by Moroccan ministry of agriculture. This goal will be reached thanks to the implementation of the new agricultural strategy Green Generation 2020-2030. Under this ambitious plan, 5 million palm date […]
Agricultural automation can boost global food production and be a boon for small-scale farmers in developing countries, a new United Nations report has found. “The State of Food and Agriculture 2022“ report, just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), says automation is rapidly changing the face of agriculture. New technologies, the authors […]
The Nigeria-Morocco gas pipeline project is a genuine powerful tool for development and regional integration, stressed, in Abidjan, Director General of Morocco’s National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM), Amina Benkhadra. “It is a transformative project for our continent,” said Benkhadra who was speaking before a panel of investors on the sidelines of the 3rd […]
Uganda and neighboring Tanzania are seeking investments of up to $20bn for a slew of new projects across the oil value chain, including to develop an export pipeline before 2025. The CEO of Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC), Proscovia Nabbanja, said that the state-owned oil company is pursuing several projects across the upstream, midstream and […]
Ethiopia’s announcement of a cessation of hostilities between the government and the rebels in Tigray after over a week of negotiations led by the African Union in Pretoria, South Africa has been hailed by the United Nations as “a very welcome first step“ and as a “major breakthrough“ by Washington, while other world leaders are […]
International experts stressed, Thursday in Tangier during a panel held part of the ongoing 14th MEDays Forum, the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy plan for the southern provinces as the only viable solution to the artificial dispute over the Sahara. Speaking at the panel entitled “Moroccan Sahara: Focus on recent dynamics”, the Managing Partner at […]
Chinese-owned garment manufacturer “Omega Textile Maroc” opened in Casablanca a new facility, the third of its kind in the North African Kingdom, which is attracting more and more investors and businesses. The company, which makes socks and lingerie items, has invested over $7.1 million in the new unit to create 627 new jobs, including 240 […]
Kenyan President William Ruto announced Wednesday the deployment of Kenyan troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of a regional military intervention to support the Congolese regime against rebels operating in the east of the country. “As neighbors, the fate of the DRC is linked to ours,” President Ruto said in Nairobi. […]