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Africa needs to establish a unified market for air transport to boost tourism and trade in the continent, according to a senior official of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Speaking during a recent workshop hosted in Egypt, Adikiny Olwenge, team leader at COMESA’s SATSD program, advocated for the development of an […]
Several countries have joined their voices to international and regional organizations to commend Morocco for its facilitation efforts in the settlement process of the Libyan crisis. The United Nations, through the Secretary-General’s spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, expressed thanks to Morocco for its efforts to facilitate compromises on electoral laws between Libyan parties convening in Bouznika. The […]
Morocco insisted, Wednesday in Addis Ababa, before the first meeting of the Permanent Representatives Committee of the African Union (PRC) under Comorian chairmanship, on the need to secure the financial independence of the pan-African organization, whose budget currently dependents on foreign partners. Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the AU and UNECA, Mohamed Arrouchi, who was speaking […]
The African Union (AU) has postponed sine die the “Pan African Network Conference on Fighting IFFs in Africa”, a continental conference initially scheduled in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on March 15 to 17. The AU did not provide reasons for the postponement, but the move comes amid soar relations between Tunisian authorities and Addis Ababa […]
Morocco, under the farsighted leadership of King Mohammed VI, will always support the stability and territorial integrity of Sudan, said on Monday Moroccan Foreign minister Nasser Bourita. Addressing remotely the 137th ministerial meeting of the Peace & Security Council of the African Union (AU), Bourita said Rabat will also always back the choices of the […]
Africa should not be an arena for international competition between world powers, China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Wednesday while inaugurating the new headquarters of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a pan-African health body. Qin is on a five-nation African tour, a week after bidding farewell to Washington, D.C., […]
The ruling of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, issued on September 22, is a desperate attempt by Algeria and the Polisario to involve all the institutions of the African Union in the Sahara issue, while the return of Morocco to the Continental Organization is a supreme decision of the African Heads of […]
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC) encourages the African Atlantic Process initiated in Rabat to consolidate an African framework for cooperation on maritime security and safety. The AUPSC “encourages the African Atlantic Process in Rabat, within the framework of existing regional, sub-regional and inter-regional mechanisms, to contribute to the consolidation of an inter-African […]
The United Nations and the African Union (AU) have welcomed the signing in Turkey of an agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea, describing it as “successful development” for the continent which faces an increased risk of famine. Russian and Ukrainian officials have signed a UN-backed deal aimed at allowing grain […]
The terrorist threat is becoming more aggressive in Africa, with the rise of new groups sowing chaos, said Moroccan Foreign minister Nasser Bourita at the African Union Extraordinary Summit which opened Saturday in Malabo to discuss terror threats and military coups in the Continent. Terrorism is evolving towards a nexus between terrorism, separatism and criminality, […]