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Africa to cut its reliance on West, unfair raw material trade practices – AfCFTA, Uganda leaders

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African countries must reduce their reliance on other Western countries by boosting intra-Africa trade and also by eliminating their exploitation of Africa’s raw materials, according to the AfCFTA Secretary General and Uganda’s president. Speaking at the 2023 Zenith Bank International Trade Seminar on Non-Oil Export, the Secretary General of AfCFTA, Wamkele Mene, said that economic […]
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Egypt inks deals with international consortiums to establish, manage, operate Sokhna & Dekheila ports

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Egypt signed two agreements worth $1.6 billion with international consortiums on the establishment of the superstructure, management, operation, exploitation, maintenance, and handing over of the container terminals at Ain Sokhna and Dekheila ports, the Arab country said in a statement on Wednesday. The first project will be implemented in the port of Sokhna between the […]
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Child recruitment in Tindouf encourages terrorism, instability, radicalization in North Africa and in Sahel

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The polisario-forced and Algeria-backed recruitment of children in the camps of Tindouf fuels instability in North Africa and the Sahel, said, on Thursday in Dakhla, the minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita. Speaking at a conference organized by the International Research Center on the Prevention of Child Soldiers, Bourita stressed the correlation between the lack […]
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Human Rights Watch Lauds Morocco’s New Law on Domestic Workers

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Human Rights Watch, welcomed Morocco’s new law regulating work for domestic workers saying that such a legislation is “ground breaking” in as far as it will protect the rights of this social category. This new law “could help protect thousands of women and girls from exploitation and abuse,” said the international rights watchdog in a […]