Tag: Sweden

Sweden strengthens African development through strategic capital markets investment

October 31, 2024

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

August 16, 2024

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

August 11, 2024

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

June 13, 2024

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

November 2, 2023

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

October 4, 2023

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

September 29, 2023

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

September 6, 2023

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

July 26, 2023

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

June 29, 2023

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