The 15th Morocco-France High Level Meeting hold under the sign of Reinforced Exceptional Partnership between the two countries

Morocco and France signed 14 cooperation agreements on 16 July 2026 during French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s visit to Rabat, further strengthening the two countries’ strategic partnership across different sectors. Lecornu co-chaired the 15th Morocco-France High Level Meeting today alongside his Moroccan counterpart Aziz Akhannouch. The agreements covered different sectors,...

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The 15th Morocco-France High Level Meeting hold under the sign of Reinforced Exceptional Partnership between the two countries

Morocco and France signed 14 cooperation agreements on 16 July 2026 during French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s visit to Rabat, further strengthening the two countries’ strategic partnership across different sectors. Lecornu co-chaired the 15th Morocco-France High Level Meeting today alongside his Moroccan counterpart Aziz Akhannouch. The agreements covered different sectors,...

China is funding African farmers but not food processing and storage: why it’s a problem

China has become one of Africa’s largest development financiers. Since 2000, Chinese and other state-backed institutions have committed more than US$180 billion in loans to African countries. The money has been used to finance roads, railways, power stations, ports, water infrastructure and industrial projects. Agriculture has also...

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South Sudan at 15: how the political elite have found a way to profit from peace as well as war

South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 was meant to close the chapter on one of Africa’s longest civil wars: the north-south war that preceded it. Formally, it did. But independence did...
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