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South Africa’s government announced on Tuesday (12 December) plans to increase the country’s nuclear power production, with bids sought from the United States, Russia, France, China and South Korea, just as Korean nuclear energy companies are lining up to win business from different African countries in the face of stiff competition from its rivals. To […]
Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, and Director General of the French National Police, Frédéric Veaux, who is currently on a working visit to Morocco, held talks Tuesday in Rabat on various security matters of shared interest. The two parties explored avenues to bolster security cooperation mechanisms, and discussed strategies for […]
Paris-based cable network Canal+ removed Thursday December 7 the Guinean private media Djoma TV and its radio from its channel packages under instruction of the country’s State-run media regulator HAC which deems the media outlet a threat to security. Boubacar Yacine Diallo, Head of the regulator sent an order to cable Wednesday December 6 for […]
Mali and Niger have announced they have nullified two historic tax treaties with France, noting that Paris’s hostility towards both West African nations is the reason for the move. According to a joint statement published on Tuesday (5 December), the cancellation of the two treaties, which was meant to avoid double taxation and help in […]
The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger have announced their countries would follow Mali in quitting the G5 international anti-jihadist force in Africa’s Sahel region, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world’s most troubled, conflict-torn areas. Leaders of the five countries involved in G5 Sahel agreed to deploy […]
Mali has launched an investigation into several ethnic separatists and al-Qaida-linked jihadist leaders for terrorism and money laundering, which also includes a probe into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 and now accuse the government of failing to comply with it. The instructions issued by Mali’s judiciary this week show […]
France has completed the full withdrawal of its forces from Niger as requested by the current leaders of the West African country who seized the power on July 26, after removing west-backed Mohamed Bazoum. Over 1,300 soldiers stationed in the country have left the country and headed to neighboring Chad and to France, ‘Mali Jet’ […]
Moroccan utility system construction company ‘Falcon Capital Dakhla’ has signed a partnership deal with French HDF Energy to build a green hydrogen production plant for a total investment of $2 billion in the kingdom coastal region of Dakhla. Dubbed White Dunes, the project seeks to produce some of the most competitive green hydrogen in the […]
French Ambassador to Rabat Christophe Le Courtier said his country has long backed Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara but now it was “high time we made progress.” Speaking to 2M state media, le Courtier said France adheres to “Morocco’s momentum” on the Sahara issue, and that his country “is aware of what Morocco has […]
Despite the frost in Rabat-Paris relations, France has leant towards Morocco’s stance at the UN urging all parties, including Algeria, to resume the round tables process with a view to finding a political solution to the Sahara conflict, while stressing the pre-eminence of the autonomy plan. “I reaffirm the historic and straightforward and steady support […]