Moroccan King appoints new PM

King Mohammed VI of Morocco has appointed Aziz Akhannouch of the liberal National Rally of Independents (RNI) party as prime minister and asked him to form a government. RNI emerged as the biggest party in Wednesday's parliamentary…

Former Ivorian PM dies at 76

Former Ivory Coast prime minister Charles Konan Banny has died in a Paris hospital on Friday after contracting Covid-19, close aides said. Banny, 78, who was in office from 2005-2007, was being treated at the American Hospital in the…