Ethiopia maintains schedule, AU enters the picture

Ethiopia announced on Saturday that it intends to start filling the reservoir of its gigantic dam on the Nile “in the next two weeks”, while committing to try to conclude, under the aegis of the African Union, a final agreement with Egypt and Sudan, worried about the consequences of the project. The Great Renaissance Dam … Read more

New initiative to consolidate the leadership of African women

Posted by SJ on Sunday June 28, 2020 – The African Union and the United Nations have just launched a joint initiative on “women in governance and their political participation: strengthening the role of African women in leadership”. It also aims to amplify the role and leadership of African women in strategies to fight the … Read more

Micro-businesses ravaged by the pandemic… Morocco is no exception to the rule

On the occasion of the Day of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, which generate half of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP), the Organization notes that Covid-19 has resulted in unprecedented dependence on access to finance, information and markets. According to the UN, measures taken to contain the spread of the new coronavirus have caused … Read more

Private schools are stepping up

The Moroccan Federation of Private Education and Training (FMEFP) and the Alliance of Private Education in Morocco announced a national strike on Tuesday, June 30. Date which will be marked by the end of the distance courses. The two organizations, with more than 2,500 establishments, made this decision following a meeting organized last week in … Read more

Excellence scholarships for baccalaureate holders

The Tamkine Foundation has produced a scholarship application which it makes available to students, justifying excellent results in the baccalaureate exams for the 2019/2020 school year and wishing to continue their university studies in one of the partner universities of the Foundation, can we read in a press release from the said institution. “The Scholarship … Read more

Big seizure of Chira in the Saharan areas

“The searches and searches carried out in a Saharan area about 30 kilometers from Laayoune (main city of Western Sahara, editor’s note) led to the seizure of a Kalashnikov, 66 bullets, a hunting rifle and 114 cartridges, in more than 216 drug wafers (chira) with a total weight of about 5.8 tonnes, “said in a … Read more