Côte d’Ivoire paid national tribute to Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly
Côte d’Ivoire on Tuesday paid national tribute to Prime Minister and presidential candidate Amadou Gon Coulibaly, who died on 8 July of a heart attack […]
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Niger loses one of its press pioneer
Mamane Abou, journalist and a pioneer of the Nigerien press, died on Monday in Niamey at the age of 72. He was the editor of […]
Morocco announces $621m stimulus package to national carrier
Morocco will allocate $621 million to its national carrier Royal Air Maroc whose activities have taken the brunt of the covid-19 pandemic, Finance Minister Mohamed […]
Zimbabwe: $3.5 billion in compensation to White farmers expropriated in 2000
Twenty years after Robert Mugabe’s forced expropriation of white farmers, the country is preparing to pay them compensation. The government has announced that it will […]
Burkina Faso: President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré nominated to run November presidential election
President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré is running for a second term. He has just been nominated as the candidate of the People’s Movement for Progress […]
BMW to supply its battery cells with Moroccan cobalt
German car-manufacturer BMW said it will make a fifth of its battery cells for electrical cars using Moroccan cobalt under a 100 million euro contract. […]
COVID-19: Africa passes the 500,000 confirmed cases threshold
Africa has passed the 500,000 confirmed cases threshold. This represents an additional 100,000 cases since July 1. According to the World Health Organization, 22 countries […]
Zimbabwe: Health minister fired for alleged corruption
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa finally separated on July 8 from his health minister, who was arrested two weeks ago on corruption charges. Obadiah Moyo, a […]
Covid-19: Morocco Extends State of Health Emergency until August 10
Moroccan authorities have decided to extend by one month the state of health emergency until August 10 to keep up the efforts deployed in the […]
Sudan reopens airports for flights from Egypt, Turkey, UAE
Sudan Thursday said it has re-opened Khartoum international airport for flights from Egypt, Turkey and UAE, after a four-month hiatus because of covid-19 pandemic. Ibrahim […]