United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has signed a $10 million financing deal with Liberia's leading telecom company, Lonestar Limited; a company owned 51% by MTN Communications Limited for a network expansion programme. The deal is one of the biggest single projects financing by a commercial bank in the country and underscores UBA Group's role in project financing across Africa.
In July 2007, the Presidents and the Boards of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) requested a joint evaluation of agriculture and rural development (ARD) policies and operations of both institutions in Africa. Undertaken jointly by the independent evaluation offices of both institutions, the evaluation had four objectives. These were ...
In the wake of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI last week, a prominent human rights activist was detained on her arrival in Western Sahara, which Morocco controls.
One of the key resolutions aims at strengthening, pursuing and improving reforms of existing public procurement systems so as to make them more effective, efficient and transparent, through institutional capacity building and by ensuring systemic integrity. This will strengthen good governance and accountability in public finance as well as improved social services and poverty reduction.
In this exclusive interview with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to Nigeria, Mr. Mustapha Cherqaoui, he reflected on Nigeria-Morocco bilateral ties, the Western Sahara issue and the UN reform and others. He spoke to Mr. Charles Onunaiju. Excerpt:-
Aminatou Haidar, one of the most prominent human rights activists in the liberation of the Sahrawi people in Western Sahara, was detained, then deported, by the Moroccan authorities on her arrival in the territory last Friday. Some weeks earlier, she visited Washington, DC to receive the Civil Courage Prize, sponsored by the U.S.-based Train Foundation. AllAfrica interviewed her there.
The first African Water Week was organized by the AfDB jointly with the African Ministers's Council on Water (AMCOW) and held in March 2008, in Tunis. Having gathered more than 500 participants, the event was considered as a tremendous success. One of the main outcomes was a Ministerial Declaration on Accelerating Water Security for Africa's Socio-Economic Development.
A majority of sixty-eight members of the Pan- African Parliament (PAP) have adopted the motion to exert pressure on the government of the Kingdom of Morocco to release the seven human rights activists that were "abducted upon their return from visiting their families in the Saharawi refugee camps."
MOROCCANS showed that there is a huge gulf between them and the rest of the pack after posting a top four finish on Day one of the Tour of Rwanda.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, at a "Forum for the Future" in Marrakech, Morocco on November 3, 2009.
Remarks made by the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, in Marrakech, Morocco, on November 2, 2009.
Another batch of 14 students recently left Banjul for the Kingdom of Morocco, to pursue their first postgraduate degree programme in various fields of study.
RWANDA'S national basketball team head coach is ready to commit his future to Rwanda despite being linked with a possible move to Morocco.
Free tickets and transportation have been provided for Cameroonians resident in Morocco.
