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Tag: Sweden
Sweden strengthens African development through strategic capital markets investment
Sweden has joined the Netherlands and Luxembourg in making a significant contribution to Africa's financial development, pledging 50 million Swedish crowns ($4.8 million) to the ... Read More
Sweden detects first case of highly infectious Mpox strain
Sweden has reported its first case of a more infectious form of mpox, originally identified in eastern Congo. This development comes just a day after ... Read More
Mali expels Sweden’s envoy over ‘hostile’ comment amid strained ties with the West
Mali has ordered Sweden's ambassador to leave the country within 72 hours because of what it called a “hostile” statement by a Swedish minister, the ... Read More
Africa at war: 28 of 59 armed conflicts worldwide in 2023 occurred on the continent
About half of the 59 armed conflicts worldwide in 2023 — the highest number since the end of World War II — occurred in Africa, ... Read More
Europe’s Nordic countries to cooperate on immigration policy, deportation flights
Ministers of justice of Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway and Iceland have signed an agreement to cooperate more closely to create a more effective system for ... Read More
Morocco: King Mohammed VI Receives Several Foreign Ambassadors
King Mohammed VI received, on Wednesday at the Royal Palace in Rabat, several foreign ambassadors who came to hand over, to the Sovereign, their credentials ... Read More
Kenyan and Ghanian activists among 2023 ‘Alternative Nobel’ prize laureates
Sweden’s Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize”, has in 2023 honored work of two women activists from Africa to provide safer abortion ... Read More
Swedish oil firm executives go on trial over war crimes in South Sudan
Two former executives at a Swedish oil company Lundin Oil are going on trial on Tuesday (5 September), with both defendants accused of complicity in ... Read More
Quran Burning: UN Adopts Resolution Proposed by Morocco against Hate Speech
Quran Burning: UN adopts Morocco-proposed resolution against hate speech The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution introduced by Morocco to counter hate speech and ... Read More
Morocco recalls its ambassador to Stockholm, summons Sweden’s Chargé d’Affaires in Rabat over burning of the Quran, an offensive and irresponsible act
On the high instructions of King Mohammed VI, Commander of the Faithful, the Chargé d'Affaires of Sweden in Rabat was summoned on Wednesday to the ... Read More