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BUTEC Group (https://www.BUTEC.com/), a regional leader in the environment, energy and industrial construction sectors in the Middle East and North Africa, has completed the takeover of the full range of Moroccan businesses of the Société des Eaux de Marseille (SEM), a subsidiary of Veolia Group, by repurchasing the shares of Eaux de Marseille – Maroc (EMM) on January 17, 2024. EMM caters to a large base of public and private sector […]

The second phase of the ECOWAS Commission’s Crisis Communication Framework development Workship, commences on the 29th of January 2024 in Abuja, Nigeria. The five-day Workshop is meant among others, to facilitate the improvement of the Commission’s hands-on response mechanism during emergency or crisis situations. Being a follow up to the earlier one held in Accra, Ghana in April 2023, it is designed to establish a shared understanding of the roles […]

On 29 January, on the sidelines of the Italy-Africa Summit in Rome (Italy), His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, met with His Excellency Mr. Macky Sall, the President of the Republic of Senegal. The meeting focused on ways to strengthen and develop bilateral cooperation relations between the two brotherly countries and on issues of common interest.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Mauritanian […]

On 29 January, on the sidelines of the Italy-Africa Summit in Rome (Italy), His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, met with His Excellency Kaïs Saïed, the President of the Tunisian Republic. The talks focused on ways and means of strengthening and developing bilateral cooperation relations between the two brotherly countries and issues of common interest. His Excellency, the President of the Republic is […]

On 29 January, in Rome (Italy), His Excellency Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the President of the Republic, met with Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The meeting focused on ways to strengthen bilateral relations between our country and this international financial institution. This meeting takes place on the sidelines of the Italy-Africa Summit, which began this morning in Rome with the participation […]

Premier Alan Winde visited a mobile disaster management incident command centre near Wolseley yesterday, 29 January, where he received a briefing on efforts to bring a series of wildfires in the Cape Winelands district and surrounds under control. The fires have been raging for more than a week. High temperatures and strong winds are fueling the flames. Fire teams in the Breede Valley and Witzenberg areas were given a slight […]

The Embassies of Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States strongly condemn the series of armed attacks on January 27 and 28 on a United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) base and on UNISFA personnel that led to the deaths of two peacekeepers, injuries to several other UNISFA personnel, and wider civilian casualties.  We understand that the two peacekeepers killed were from Ghana and Pakistan.  We express […]

His Excellency the President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, received on Monday morning upon his arrival at the Italian Senate Palace in Rome, to participate in the Italian-African Summit, by the Italian Prime Minister, Mrs. Giorgia Maloney. The summit, which kicked off today in the presence of His Excellency, aims to launch a new phase of cooperation with African countries, especially in the field of energy, […]

Rugby World Cup 2023 (www.WorldRugby.org) in France was the most viewed rugby event of all time, further cementing its record-breaking legacy. RWC France 2023 achieved 1.33 billion viewing hours (VH) across all programming on linear&non-linear broadcast making it the most viewed rugby event of all time France 2023 achieved 30 per cent more viewership than England 2015 and 19 per cent more than Japan 2019 despite general decline in linear TV […]