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Niger’s military authorities suspended British broadcaster the BBC for three months accusing it of spreading false news and undermining troops’ morale. The decision came after the BBC broadcasted in local Hausa language that an attack killed more than 90 Nigerien soldiers and 40 civilians in two Niger villages near the border with Burkina Faso. Niamey […]
The British government has appointed Rob Butler new trade envoy to Morocco, a gateway for investors to African markets. His mission is to strengthen further trade and economic partnership between the two countries Rob is a member of the ruling Conservative party. He was elected MP for Aylesbury in 2019. He was a TV news […]
Headlines abound in international media and global think tanks deploring the state of play of Algerian blame games to hide a resounding policy failure by an unpopular regime. When wildfires broke out in Algeria, the government’s reaction was to blame arsonists then political opposition groups and afterwards Morocco in a desperate scapegoating attempt that only […]
The British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, the UK’s London-based national broadcaster, has just adopted Morocco’s undivided MAP including the Sahara, a move signaling an upcoming shift in the UK stand on Morocco’s territorial integrity and first national cause. The undivided map is posted on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14121438 showing the Sahara as an integral part […]
The British public broadcaster, BBC, on Wednesday announced that it will launch 11 new language services in 2017 as part of its expansion project on the continent. The new languages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. Afaan Oromo and Amharic are widely spoken in Ethiopia with […]
Commentaries by western intellectuals, media and government officials continue to hail King Mohammed VI for his speech against radicalism and terrorism. In a recent commentary on the French Le Point newspaper, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy highlights that at a time the west is mired in a sterile burkini debate, King Mohammed VI delivered a speech- […]
The announcement of an agreement between the two rival Libyan governments continues to be applauded by the international community and organizations for it increases the hopes that war is nearing its end. Fayez el-Sarraj would head the transitional government with the help of three deputy prime ministers representing the western, eastern and southern regions. The […]