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Nigeria, SA call on African countries to develop tourism by boosting collaboration, air connectivity

Nigeria’s and South Africa’s senior government officials have urged African countries to boost collaboration, rather than compete with one another, and work together to improve air connectivity, which would in turn boost tourism and economic growth. Speaking during the recent African Tourism Ministers Dialogue in South Africa’s port city of Durban, the country’s Minister of […]

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Wealth Report 2023 confirms that ’Africa is not poor but impoverished’

Not all Africans are poor — this could arguably be the main message from the 2023 edition of the annual Africa Wealth Report by London-based Henley & Partners that reveals that the ‘Big 5’ wealth markets in Africa — South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and Morocco — together account for a significant 56% of Africa’s […]

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Tanger Med Tops Africa’s Container Ports

Tanger Med was ranked as the first container port in Africa and the 45th in the world in a survey by World Top Container Ports. With a capacity of 3 million containers, the Moroccan port has handled 3,312,409 containers in 2017 that is 11% over its capacity, the Port authority said in a statement. This […]

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Moroccan Diplomat Killed in Pretoria in unclear circumstances

A Moroccan diplomat accredited to South Africa has been reportedly killed and his lifeless body was found in his home in Pretoria on Tuesday. According to Morocco’s Embassy in South Africa, the victim, M. Noureddine Fatmi, who was in charge of consular affairs, was apparently murdered in his apartment in the district of Monument Park […]