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SENEGAL-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-FREE MEDICAL SERVICES

SENEGAL-CHINESE MEDICAL TEAM-FREE MEDICAL SERVICES

(250221) -- DAKAR, Feb. 21, 2025 (Xinhua) -- A member of the 20th batch of the Chinese medical team to Senegal checks a patient in...

What should a split state expect from the US this time

What should a split state expect from the US this time

Western hegemony destroyed Libya, and 14 years later is still unable to fix it The British House of Commons in 2016 investigated...

Formation de competences vertes pour regenerer la nature : enjeux en Afrique du Sud et au Senegal

Formation de competences vertes pour regenerer la nature : enjeux en Afrique du Sud et au Senegal

La population africaine est en croissance. Cela implique une modification accrue des paysages et le developpement d'infrastructures...

Ivory Coast takes control of last remaining French base

Ivory Coast takes control of last remaining French base

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST —  Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country Thursday as most...

France leaves another military base in Africa

France leaves another military base in Africa

The move in Ivory Coast comes just a week after Paris agreed to withdraw troops from neighboring Senegal by the end of the year ...

Ecowas breakup could push up food prices and worsen hunger in west Africa

Ecowas breakup could push up food prices and worsen hunger in west Africa

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) lost three of its founding members on 29 January 2025. Burkina Faso, Mali and...

Sources: Wagner mercenaries, Mali army accused of killing civilians

Sources: Wagner mercenaries, Mali army accused of killing civilians

DAKAR —  Around 20 people were killed in northern Mali on Monday when the vehicles they were traveling in came under attack, with local...

Fifty dead in gold mine collapse

Fifty dead in gold mine collapse

An illegal mining site has caved in near Kenieba, Mali At least 50 people lost their lives in the collapse of an illegally operated...

Green skills to help nature repair itself are scarce: what we're doing to train more experts in South Africa and Senegal

Green skills to help nature repair itself are scarce: what we're doing to train more experts in South Africa and Senegal

Africa's population is growing. This means more landscape change and development of supporting infrastructure. Ecosystems are under...

Militant attack kills 6 Benin soldiers, army spokesperson says

Militant attack kills 6 Benin soldiers, army spokesperson says

COTONOU, Benin —  A militant attack on an army position has killed six soldiers in northern Benin, where government troops are trying...

Why is there so much gold in west Africa?

Why is there so much gold in west Africa?

Militaries that have taken power in Africa's Sahel region - notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger - have put pressure on western mining...

Around 170 Pakistanis deported from Gulf and other nations, 24 arrested in Karachi

Around 170 Pakistanis deported from Gulf and other nations, 24 arrested in Karachi

Karachi [Pakistan] February 16 (ANI): Around 170 Pakistanis have been deported in the past 48 hours from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab...

International Charity Organisation launches 80 projects worth AED13 million in Mauritania

International Charity Organisation launches 80 projects worth AED13 million in Mauritania

NOUAKCHOTT, 13th February, 2025 (WAM) -- A delegation from the International Charity Organisation, led by Secretary-General Dr. Khaled...

Sierra Leone's Chief Minister: "We look forward to broader partnership with UAE in education, technology, sustainable development"

Sierra Leone's Chief Minister: "We look forward to broader partnership with UAE in education, technology, sustainable development"

DUBAI, 12th February, 2025 (WAM) -- David Moinina Sengeh, Chief Minister of Sierra Leone, affirmed his country's aspiration to strengthen...

Mauritania celebrates 10th Nouakchott Arabic Poetry Festival

Mauritania celebrates 10th Nouakchott Arabic Poetry Festival

SHARJAH, 11th February, 2025 (WAM) -- The Islamic Republic of Mauritania celebrated the launch of the 10th edition of the Nouakchott...

OPEC Fund, Mauritania strengthen cooperation with US$120 million-partnership agreement

OPEC Fund, Mauritania strengthen cooperation with US$120 million-partnership agreement

VIENNA, 2nd February, 2025 (WAM) - The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have...

Theyab bin Mohamed congratulates Niger on becoming first country in Africa to eliminate river blindness

Theyab bin Mohamed congratulates Niger on becoming first country in Africa to eliminate river blindness

ABU DHABI, 31st January, 2025 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Theyab bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Court...

Digital School hosts experts, education leaders to shape future of digital learning in Mauritania

Digital School hosts experts, education leaders to shape future of digital learning in Mauritania

DUBAI, NOUAKCHOTT, 28th January, 2025 (WAM) -- The Digital School, an initiative of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives...

UAE condemns terrorist attack on military site in Benin

UAE condemns terrorist attack on military site in Benin

ABU DHABI, 12th January, 2025 (WAM) -- The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a military site in the Alibori...

Sierra Leone confirms first Mpox case

Sierra Leone confirms first Mpox case

FREETOWN, 12th January, 2025 (WAM) -- Sierra Leone has recorded its first case of Mpox since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared...

A Bleak Future for Democracy in Niger

A Bleak Future for Democracy in Niger

Power has its perks in Niger and the rules are being rewritten by those in charge. On Thursday, a national commission, representing...

Guinean 'Disappeared' Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture

Guinean 'Disappeared' Activist Resurfaces with Marks of Torture

A prominent civil society leader in Guinea, Abdoul Sacko, went missing in the early hours of February 19, 2025, after gunmen took him...

Mali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians

Mali: Armed Islamist Attack on Convoy Kills 34 Civilians

(Nairobi) - An apparent Islamist armed group attacked a civilian convoy escorted by Malian armed forces and allied militias in northeastern...

International Clean Energy Day 2025: Advancing Clean Energy & Welcoming Harees Haneefa as Trade Commissioner

International Clean Energy Day 2025: Advancing Clean Energy & Welcoming Harees Haneefa as Trade Commissioner

SMPL Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], February 1: The significance of sustainable Clean Energy Day took center stage on International Clean...

Migrantising Diplomacy

Migrantising Diplomacy

Hlne Thiollet Download PDF Feb 21 2025 1 viewsDavid Peinado Romero/Shutterstock Since the 2000s, migration and asylum seem to...

Mali Gold Mine Accident Kills at Least 48

Mali Gold Mine Accident Kills at Least 48

TEHRAN (Tasnim) At least 48 people were killed in the collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali Saturday, authorities...

UN envoy calls for AES-ECOWAS cooperation framework in Bamako

BAMAKO, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for West Africa and the Sahel Leonardo Santos Simao...

Chinese medical team provides free medical services in Senegal

DAKAR, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Members of the 20th batch of the Chinese medical team provided free mobile medical services to people in...

Chinese language teacher training center opened in Ghana

ACCRA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Center for Language Education and Cooperation (CLEC) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC) in Ghana...

Dortmund faces uncertainty ahead of Sporting clash in Champions League

By Oliver Trust BERLIN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Tension hangs over Borussia Dortmund's training headquarters in the northern suburb...

UNICEF says to provide over 142 mln USD to help Niger improve education

NIAMEY, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will provide more than 92 billion CFA francs (about 142 million...

New EU envoy urges resumption of ties with Niger

NIAMEY, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The new special representative of the European Union (EU) for the Sahel, Joao Cravinho has said that he...

AfDB projects 6.3 pct GDP growth for Cote d'Ivoire in 2025, 2026

ABIDJAN, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- A recent report by the Abidjan-based African Development Bank (AfDB), titled Africa's Macroeconomic Performance...

HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Senegal stands at 0.3 pct

DAKAR, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Senegal stands at 0.3 percent, Executive Secretary of the National Council...

Death toll from gold mine collapse in western Mali rises to 50

BAMAKO, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in western Mali on Saturday has killed 50 people, a local...

Roundup: 38th African Union Summit focuses on reparations, leadership elections

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The 38th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of the Heads of State and Government...

79 militants killed in northeastern Niger last week

ABUJA, 25th January, 2025 (WAM) -- Nigerian soldiers killed 79 militants and suspected kidnappers in the northeast of the country over...

Ducab begins supplying high-voltage cables to Senegal

DUBAI, 13th January, 2025 (WAM) -- Ducab Group has further strengthened its presence in Africa with its first-supply of 220kV high-voltage...

France hands over Port-Bout military camp to the Ivorian army

In a symbolic ceremony this Thursday, France will officially transfer control of the Port-Bout military camp to the Ivorian army. This...

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