Les Tirailleurs, France’s forgotten Senegalese veterans, finally allowed to ‘go home’
After nearly 20 years of living thousands of miles from their families in West Africa, hundreds of war veterans could now claim their French army […]
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Xlinks: Two Firms Pledge to Inject over $ 37 Mln in Morocco-UK Power Project
Emirati Taqa firm and British Octopus energy group will invest respectively £ 25 million and £ 5 million the world’s longest undersea cable expected to […]
Sudan: Ex-dictator al-Bashir “in a hospital” and not in the prison from which his former lieutenants fled
The deposed Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir is “still in a hospital under the custody of the judicial police”, the army announced on Wednesday, after one […]
Arrival in Casablanca of a second RAM plane carrying 157 Moroccans evacuated from Sudan
A second plane of Royal Air Maroc coming from Sudan landed this Wednesday afternoon at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca, with 157 Moroccan nationals on […]
US-Africa: AGOA has had a “positive but limited impact” on exports (report)
In 2021, five of the 39 beneficiaries accounted for 82% of non-oil exports to the US under the AGOA. That year, textiles and apparel made […]
First RAM plane carrying 136 Moroccans repatriated from Sudan lands at Mohammed V International Airport Wednesday
A first plane of the Moroccan flag carrier RAM coming from Sudan landed, Wednesday morning at Mohammed V Airport, with on board 136 Moroccan nationals […]
Has South Africa’s ruling party asked to leave the ICC?
South Africa’s ruling ANC has called for the country, criticized since the start of the war in Ukraine for its closeness to Moscow, to leave […]
Mozambique: NGO criticizes authorities’ silence on police violent repression
The Mozambican Center for Democracy and Development (CDD) criticized the authorities on Monday for not yet releasing the “clarifications” that the President of the Republic […]
UN chief fears conflict in Sudan will spread to “the whole region”
Violence in Sudan risks “engulfing the entire region and beyond,” the UN secretary-general warned Monday, calling once again for a cease-fire to “keep Sudan off […]
ExxonMobil contributes $41 million to fight against malaria in Angola
ExxonMobil has contributed $41 million (37.4 million euros) over the last 20 years to the fight against malaria in Angola, the leading cause of death […]