After a year of icy relations, France and Morocco are showing signs of wanting to open up to each other again. Following a low-profile trip by French foreign ministry officials to Rabat in early November, a delegation from Paris's interior ministry is due to visit the Moroccan capital shortly.
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Breaking news published on 28/11/23 at 2.00 pm GMT - Following several days of deadlock with Kinshasa, the European Union has decided to withdraw its team of 42 electoral experts, sent to the country ahead of the presidential election on 20 December.
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Outgoing Liberian President George Weah has criticised his government and some advisers for duping him in order to benefit from the mining industry's largesse. Before the new head of state takes over, he is trying to shed light on the highly sensitive case of ArcelorMittal, Solway Mining and HPX.
Ghanaian diplomats have submitted a draft project to the United Nations Security Council for how the organisation can take over the financing of African Union operations.
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Diplomacy China International Water and Electric Corp has won a €70.8m contract to build a 19km stretch of the motorway linking Dakar to Saint-Louis.
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The Kenyan government hopes to obtain funds more quickly, and in sectors that it considers to be priorities. A project monitoring unit will be set up next year.
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Diplomacy The region's administration appears powerless to prevent medics heading abroad in droves to escape an economy crippled by civil war, while the federal government refuses to pay attention to the crisis.
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Elected prime minister of Lesotho last year, Sam Matekane has now lost his mining services contracts with Gem Diamonds, the main shareholder in the Letseng mine.
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Lalla Hasna, chair of the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and sister of Morocco's king, is preparing to travel to Dubai to take part in COP28, which will run from 30 November to 12 December.
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Diplomacy Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to visit Morocco in mid-December to promote his latest book, Le Temps des combats (The Time of Battles).
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