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Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged European nations to pay reparations to Africa for damage wrought by the historic slave trade. Speaking at the recent Reparations and Racial Healing Summit in Accra, Ghana’s leader said compensation for the trauma of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is long overdue and compared Africa’s lack of reparations to the […]
The European Union has intensified pressure on Nigeria to supply additional gas to Europe as it attempts to wean itself off Russian gas on the back of Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine. With the bloc preparing for potential Russian supply cuts, Nigeria’s Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, has called for collaboration with […]
Several members of the European Parliament have voiced support to Morocco’s humane management of illegal migration, describing the North African Kingdom as a reliable and strategic partner in the fight against human smuggling and trafficking. Commenting the latest violent mass crossing attempt by illegal sub-Saharan migrants from Northern Moroccan region of Nador into Spanish enclave […]
CEO of Algeria’s oil and gas company Sonatrach Toufiq Hakkar said on Feb 27 his country was ready to tap the potential of a 10 cubic meter pipeline to Italy, but a day later he backtracked on his promise casting doubt on Algeria’s limited gas production capacity, in a volte-face that indicates a fear of […]
The outbreak of war in Ukraine has put Europe’s energy security under a new test as Germany halted the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea gas pipeline project with Russia, leaving few long-term gas supply options, chief among which is the Moroccan-Nigerian pipeline project. The $11 bln Nord Stream 2 pipeline was intended to double gas […]
Morocco took part in a large-scale international operation of fight against drug trafficking, which was carried out simultaneously in Brazil and three European countries, Brazilian media reported. This operation, backed by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Europol, was carried out as part of the execution of 19 arrest warrants issued by two […]
Tunisia recently arrested a number of alleged militants of the Nigeria-based terror group Boko Haram, the leader of security union in the coastal city of Ariana, has told the media. “In recent weeks, sub-Saharans affiliated with the terrorist organization Boko Haram have been arrested by Tunisian security forces,” Ezzedine Fathali told local radio station Jawharafm […]
King Mohammed VI, of Morocco, received on Tuesday at the Rabat Royal Palace, nineteen new ambassadors to be positioned in several capitals in Europe, Africa, Oceania, Asia, and Latin America. The Sovereign handed the new ambassadors, among whom three women, their appointment dahirs, before they were sworn in before him. Former finance and […]
Moroccan authorities have decided to suspend temporarily flights to and from France starting Nov.28 due to a surge of Covid-19 infections and deaths in some European countries as winter season approaches. The flights suspension was initially to be enforced this Friday but was postponed by two days to enable Moroccan nationals and foreigners living in […]
Algeria’s unilateral decision to suspend gas supply via the Maghreb-Europe gas pipeline to Europe, including to Spain and Portugal is still trigging anger and criticism across Europe as a gas blackmail. In this connection, eleven Portuguese MPs from different political trends questioned, on Monday, their government about this gas blackmail that Algeria is practicing towards […]