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African countries called on Friday on the United Nations Human Rights Council to hold an urgent debate on racism and police brutality amid the unrest in the United States and beyond over George Floyd’s death when the council resumes its 43rd session next week. In a letter written on behalf of 54 African countries, Burkina […]
Morocco urged more efforts to counter IS and like-minded terrorist groups in the Sahel who have stepped up their attacks taking advantage of the new mayhem caused by the coronavirus outbreak. The call was made by Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita at a virtual meeting of the anti-IS coalition co-hosted by the US and Italy. IS […]
On the African continent, as elsewhere in the world, reactions are mounting after the death in the United States of a black man who was smothered in police violence in Minneapolis last week. The African Union, the first to react, as early as last Friday, protested against the conditions of George Floyd’s death. In a […]
The Moroccan and Ivorian exporters’ associations, Asmex and Apex-CI, have decided to pool efforts to set up an African external trade association, Aujourd’hui Le Maroc reports. The decision came under a partnership deal signed by the two associations on May 25, marking the African World Day. The future African association will support and provide a […]
The French Council of Ministers adopted Wednesday the bill ratifying the end of the CFA franc. This text formally validates the transformation of the West African currency, which will change its name to eco. It is a new step after the announcement made on December 21 by Presidents Emmanuel Macron of France and Alassane Ouattara […]
Facebook announced it will cooperate with a consortium of telecom businesses to build, 2Africa, the Africa internet infrastructure. 2Africa will involve Alcatel Submarine Networks, China Mobile International, Telecom Egypt and Vodafone who make up part of the partnering companies, Anadolu reports. The project, defined as a mammoth 22,990 mile-long undersea cable around Africa, according to […]
The containment imposed to limit the spread of COVID-19 costs Africa 2.5% of its GDP, equivalent to $65.7 billion per month, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) revealed in a report. Private companies approached by the authors of the report say they are working at only 43% of their potential. These estimates do not take […]
The European Commission has set up an EU humanitarian air bridge to transport humanitarian workers and emergency supplies for the coronavirus response to some of most critical areas around the world. The first EU flight, operated in cooperation with France, is flying from Lyon to the Central African Republic this Friday. It will transport around […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues spreading in Africa with over 45,500 confirmed cases and 1,820 fatalities, many questions are being raised on the quality of Covid 19 tests sent to the continent. President John Magufuli of Tanzania directly questioned the coronavirus test kits used in his country. Speaking Sunday from his residence in Chato, […]
The Conference of Heads of State and Government of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) decided to suspend temporarily the application of the Convergence, Stability, Growth and Solidarity Pact. The decision was made at an extraordinary session by videoconference on 27 April 2020 to address the health crisis in WAEMU countries. According to […]