Algeria: business tycoon close to Bouteflika in custody on graft charges
A court in capital Algiers Monday has ordered the detention of a business tycoon close to former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on corruption charges. Mahieddine Tahkout, […]
Articles by Khalid Al Mouahidi
Two African nations take seats on UN Security Council
Niger and Tunisia will join the United Nations’ Security Council as of Januray 2020 for a two-year period as non-permanent members. Seven candidates ran for […]
Sudan: TMC U-turn
In Sudan, the military council on Tuesday announced that it had decided to cancel all that had been previously agreed with civilians about the country’s […]
Algeria: Former head of business council facing 18 months in prison
An Algerian prosecutor Monday demanded a court to hand 18 months in jail and around €800- fine to Ali Haddad, the former chair of the […]
Rwanda to launch a 2000-unit social housing project
Rwanda plans to build at least 2,000 affordable housing units, under a joint venture between Shelter Afrique, a pan-African housing finance institution, and the Development […]
France allocates Togo €14 million for waste management
The French Development Agency (AFD) approved €14 million in funding to the municipality of Lomé, to improve waste management in Togo’s capital. Lomé, a city […]
Africa’s free trade zone on the rails
The African free-trade zone came into effect on Thursday after the 22nd member country of the AU ratified the treaty last month, thus paving the […]
Morocco & UK, a shared determination to boost cooperation
Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs Mounia Boucetta met, on Thursday in Rabat, with British secretary of state for International Trade Liam Fox on ways […]
South Africa: Italy-based power generation company to build a 140 MW wind farm
In South Africa, Enel Green Power RSA, a subsidiary of an Italian power generation and distribution group, has announced the commencement of construction of a […]
Morocco’s King Hosts Jared Kushner, Senior US Presidential Adviser
King Mohammed VI conferred on Wednesday in Rabat with White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on ways of “strengthening further the long-standing, solid and multidimensional […]